Blender Vertex Color height blend material tutorial - Learn how to blend materials in Evee & Cycles

This tutorial gives you an introduction to the shader editor in Blender, Cycles & Evee as well as how to use Quixel Bridge to bring textures into Blender.

You will learn how to blend between different materials using vertex colors and heightmaps directly in Blenders viewport, allowing you to transition seamlessly between different textures. This tutorial is great for anyone wanting to preview material blending directly in Blender without having to export to a game engine first. It`s also great for concept artists wanting to get more variety on their objects by using material blending.

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Disclaimer: You need a Quixel subscription to use Megascans textures outside of Unreal Engine.

[tunakhan]

For those who can't find the Vertex Color node, it has been renamed COLOR ATTRIBUTE.

[graysonsmith]

If the displacement doesn't work for Blender 3 and up users, go to the materials property and click 'Settings' then 'Surface' . In that menu there's a drop down beside 'Displacement', make sure it is set to 'Displacement and Bump' 👍

[xXoneXx]

I came here to learn how to blend material, I learned much more. You take your time to explain how it works and not only how we should do it, thanks a lot!

[ross]

Mate, your HDR "spiaggia_di_mondello" is the main beach of my city in Italy LOL

[garyjacobson]

Wow...just wow. I've probably watched a few hundred Blender tutorials. Pedagogically speaking, this is perhaps the finest I've seen. Thank you for taking the time to explain the context of these techniques relative to the larger Blender ecospace. Not only did I learn the specific techniques I sought, but I came away with a much better understanding of Blender's high-level structure (e.g. the integration of workspaces). I'm bookmarking this one!!!

[tempstep]

This tutorial is much more than just material blending. This is gold. Thank you.

[gmckart]

I love how you demo what each nodes function is before moving in

[davood]

god of 3d, i learn everything i know from your content . thank you

[ruivoalemao]

Your tutorial is really useful and easy to learn. Keep with the good work!

[GameShifu]

that was the best tutorial on vertex painting & blending materials I've ever watched - fantastic

[dreamzdziner]

This is what a great tutorial looks like. When I started learning UE I was really amazed by its landscape material blending feature. I wished if blender could also do that but couldn't find anything. Instead I came across a 'Texture Tiling' tutorial from Andrew Price where he showed Poliigon PBR Mixer Node which also did similar function but there was no much of a control like this setup. You are a wonderful teacher and thank you so much for sharing all that knowledge. Subbed you.

[ravnOne]

I enjoyed your tutorial Simon. For those that want to use materials from Megascan, just be aware that those are not free to use out side Unreal. There are free materials, they can be used lagally in Blender. as far as I know

[eanan]

This is exactly what I was looking for. I spent many hours yesterday looking for exactly this, but didn't know the correct search terms. Luckily this tutorial appeared to me today. And what a tutorial it is 👍 Incredibly professional and clear. Big thanks!

[archlyn]

Somehow, just clicking the "Like" button is enough. This excellent tutorial is jam packed with useful info. Thank you so much!

[abheetrajput]

Thank you so much! Spent the whole day experimenting with different tutorials. At last, yours turned out to be the best one.

[silverdark]

This is the best thing that has happened to me in a while. You are a genius! thank you! much love! <3

[kubanowskyy]

2:06 - you can just subdivide your object couple times, it would be faster than adding edge loops :) to subdivide, select your object in edit mode then right click and click subdivide. This is just a tip for begginer users

[hvrmnd]

I don't know why I didn't see this, I really wanted to do mapping the right way, been learning that recently but this was so good. The possibilities are endless. I've always wanted to achieve this realism on Blender before trying it on UE5. Thank you Simon.

[Votr]

This is like finding some great hidden loot in a game. So much excitement. Thank you, very valuable information.

[stefanguiton]

What a great tutorial, there is little content on height blending like this and i greatly appreciate all the work you put into this video. Keep up the great work, looking foward to more!