Learn the BASICS of Material Shading in BLENDER (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Blender Material Texture Shading Introduction Tutorial:
Blender material nodes are used for material shading. They can be confusing, so this is a basic Blender materials tutorial for absolute beginners. We will cover adding materials to objects, the Principled BSDF shader, the Color Ramp, mix shaders, transparent materials and more. I have some Blender shading tips at the end of the video that will save you time. In part two, I'm going to cover PBR materials in Blender which are photorealistic texture materials you can add to objects.
Materials are what make an object in Blender look the way they do. Blender materials have three channels: surface, volume and displacement. Using a variety of nodes, you can mix and match textures and map your materials to your object. Before you start watching other Blender tutorials on material shading, watch this so you understand the basics. THANK YOU!
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Timestamps:
0:35 Basics of Adding Materials in Blender
3:51 Nodes in the Blender Shader Editor
9:09 Principled BSDF Shader in Blender
12:56 Mix Shader in Blender
14:32 Color Ramp Node in Blender
15:33 Texture Nodes in Blender
18:35 Mix RGB Node inn Blender
19:55 Mapping Textures in Blender
21:39 Math Node in Blender
22:05 Transparency Shading in Blender
22:56 Volume Shading in Blender
25:43 Shading Tips in Blender
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Unfortunatelu it didn't help. Even after I enabled the addon, I can't get the viewer node visible. I have a blender 3.6
Magic texture is a bad name as real magic is using extra dimension being from hell call demons , yes atheism is a fraud and Jesus is real .
You have no Idea how comprehensive you have turned ths thing into. But here is the right way to watch this series: watch the first video without trying to understand it too much, then move to the second video and watch it slowly, in the end come back to the first and watch it slowly then it all will click. But sir I cannot stress the fact that you have masticate it to a point the the undestanding is fantastic, you have made click in my brain. I studied this through a book but I was very confused, with you is now very clear almost perfectly clear beacuse the only thing to do is to practice. you have gained an admirer my friend.
the irony of telling someone "you have no idea" regarding his being comprehensive 😀
@@cut-no-one4082 not at all. Beginners often don't learn quickly. A lot of it has to be dumbed down
Definitely the best initial tutorial of shading in blender. 30 minutes video contains the whole world, explained everything plainly and clearly with a clean voice.
Man, thank you so much for the kind words!! Very much appreciate the support!!
The most effective video tutorial I've ever seen. Clear and straight to the point.
Thank you. You are too kind!
Great tutorial. Been modeling with blender for about 4 years and as of last night decided to finally overcome my fear of nodes and stuff like this has seriously helped. Going in depth while keeping it basic, without holding my hand is very nice.
Happy I was able to help! Keep learning!
Oh my god your style is PERFECT for me. I’m a pretty hyper person with a low attention span, and many of these tutorials scare me away bc I usually get bored fast and click off, but you explain everything you need to know at a great pace and cut right to the chase of each feature🙏
If you look around, I really dont think there is a better tutorial out there regarding texturing. Thank you so much for such great content for free.
Thank you! That is a huge compliment and it’s so much appreciated!!! Thank you!
Oh my god, this is the best tutorial ever made for this subject. I'm VERY new to Blender and have avoided these nodes since day one because they seemed so confusing. I always just applied my materials in Unity after I export the FBX because it "seemed" easier.
Thank you 🙏 That’s awesome to hear, glad it helped!
I totally agree!
@@tineitinay909 Thank You!!! 🙏
I have been using blender for quite awhile and having such a clean and comprehensive explanation of things I thought I already knew is incredible. I wish most blender breakdowns were like this. You've helped me so much! Thank you!
Thanks man, that was really nice to hear. Glad it was helpful!
no BS and straight to the point. 15 minutes into the video and you earned a new subscriber. Thanks a lot man!
Best blender tutorial of all time
That’s a HUGE compliment. 🙏 Thank you!!!
Ich stimme dir zu 100% zu. Super gutes Tutorial, besser als alles was ich bis jetzt gefunden habe. Sehr talentierter lehrer.
Finally somebody that explains how nodes work, rather than show how to do very specific materials
this is legit the most useful tutorial on nodes I have seen until now
That's very kind. Thank you for the positive feedback and taking the time to comment. Means a lot!
Appreciate the added depth to explaining the details. For example the clear description of the meaning of Socket Color. Been learning Blender for the last 10 weeks and just now learned this detail from you! And that example is just one of many. _Subscribed_
Thanks so much.
Now THIS is what I'm talking about! This is the tutorial we needed, very clear, takes the right time, explains the fundamental things that we can understand and extrapolate, amazing and I'm surely liking and subscribing as SUBTLY hinted in the video!
Thank you, and huge thanks to everyone on the Tubes that make tutorials like this that help lower the barrier of entry for newcomers to Blender. Y'all are awesome.
By far the best and most clear explanation of material shading in Blender!
Thank you! Very kind of you to take the time to comment and it’s totally appreciated!! Thanks!
Awesome intro and review for anyone interested in Blender materials. Essential details, tips, & techniques. I wish I would have had this like 2 years ago. Much appreciated.
Thanks a ton! Really glad people are finding it useful!
After the bad news from Unreal Engine for 2024, I instantly searched for a nice tutorial about materials in Blender, glad I found yours. Great explanation!
FINALLY a good tutorial oh my god. Straight to the point, no bullshit, everything explained nicely and with added context. 10/10
Thank you!! So glad you liked it. Really appreciate you taking the time to comment. Means a lot. Take care!
I paused as you went along and did the steps myself and that helped a TON.
Really glad it helped! Thank you for watching and for taking the time to leave a comment. I really appreciate that. Take care!
OMG THANK YOU! I'm watching this every morning till I learn them all
Haha! That is awesome, thank you very much for your support!!
This guy is the best teacher I have ever known
Wow, I am humbled. Thank you!
i have watched of long videos, books and they were all explaining in details confusing the subject, here the best explanatory ready-to-use and grasp video.
That is great to hear, thank you!!
best beginner friendly video on this topic I have ever seen. I don't know how to thank you enough your videos are explained in such easy way even a 12-year-old will be able understand it I am not a native English speaker, but your videos are far more understandable than all the other youtuber videos I have ever seen.
That is very nice to hear and is what I was hoping to accomplish. Thank you!!
I know I’m only echoing the same sentiment here but this IS the best tutorial around for the basics! You move at a good speed to make it not boring, there’s no filler speak “uhs” & “ums”. Once again very clear and concise not fluff speak that has NOTHING to do with the video. And you described what should be learned before the next one without confusion. Just one thing though. You said the IOR is about reflection when it should be refraction. The angle at which light travels through a transparent object right. Great stuff can’t wait to see part 2 sniff start texturing! Thanks
Still helping - watched a second time to refresh. Best video found for laying a foundation for Material construction and editing. Thanks.
That is awesome to hear, thank you for the kind words and for watching! Take care!
I couldn't find a single video on YT explain this topic so well as this video. Still watching, great work!
I have really looked around, and no one explains texturing the way you do. Thanks so much Brandon!!
hands down, the best video I've seen about shaders. thank you for such a thorough and easy to understand tutorial
Man, that is very nice to hear. I’m glad it was useful and I sincerely appreciate the kind words and support. Thank you!!
Dude, you explained more about material shading in < 1 hr than I learned in > 1 yr of watching videos that use nodes. So great to see all of this explained in 1 vid. This def going into my index, thanks!
Loved the vid!!! Will be coming back several times over the next couple of weeks xD
I know its already timestamped, but I will comment a division that helps me understand it better, just for personal use:
General
0:36 Material properties panel
3:56 Shading editor
6:19 Sockets (21:19 outputs vs inputs)
Shaders Nodes
9:09 Principled BSDF (
- 9:09 Gral. Explanation; Base Color, Subsurface scattering,
- 9:56 Metallic / Specular,
- 10:26 Roughness,
- 10:55 Transmission, Emission, Alpha,
- 11:50 Normal maps )
22:04 Glass BSDF - Transparent, Translucent, Glass
23:09 Volume Shaders - Volume Absorption, Volume Scatter, Volume Shader (24:00)
Texture Nodes (Grayscale map nodes)
15:38 Gral. Explanation
15:51 Musgrave Texture (14:13 previous use)
17:49 Voronio Texture, Brick Texture, Wave Texture, (18:07 wombo combos)
24:17 Noise Texture
Mixing Nodes
12:56 Mix Shader (Shader) (shader mixing shader)
17:01 ColorRamp (14:35 previous use) (gradient control mixing)
18:35 MixRGB (photoshop blending modes for color socket info)
21:43 Math node (quick mafs)
Texture Mapping Nodes
19:56 Mapping Node
20:26 Texture Coordinate Node (21:01 gral. expl.)
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Socket colors
Green - Shader, output ready node
Yellow - Color, images with colors
Grey - Numeric Value, Grayscale img
Purple - Vector (positions, rotations, etc...)
Blue - Attributes (idk 24:58 but they sound cool)
Node colors
Green - Shader node (output ready)
Brown - Texture node (grayscale img generator)
Blue - Math (mix or mod)
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Been a while since I subbed to someone based on only one video. NJ!
Unstoppable today, unstoppable today
Thanks!
Yes this is a great intro to PBR for a beginner regardless of whether your using blender or not…you explain the 3D texturing process very clearly…👍
Thank you so much! I don’t really have experience outside of Blender so that is good to know!
Fantastic tutorial. Very well presented and taught. Than you!
You have beautifully explained very difficult material for most to comprehend.
Man thank you a ton! Glad it was helpful!
ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS ON THE NET TO LEARN NODES
Yooooo where the hack was this video all along...this is the first shading video that actually explains what are nodes doing..thank you a lot
Now it’s so much easier for me to understand the shader editor this is a top-tier way of explaining, Thank you sir 🤝🏾
This tutorial moved me from a lost tourist to a mad materials scientist. Thanks!!!
Thank you so much for these 2 part most detailed tutorial that made me understand the material making procedure so much easy in the most simple way, I also recommended and sent it to my newly started blender artists and they really appreciate your tutorial 🙏🙏
i cant state how helpful this is, explained in detail, thank you!!
That's great to hear, thank you for taking the time to leave the comment. I really appreciate that! Part 2 was just released this morning!
Thank you man, your voice is crystal clear and the pace is perfect. Waiting for part 2 and some awesome procedural material tutorials!
Hi! Thank you for the kind words and, although I'm sure it can always be improved, I appreciate the feedback and that's what I was going for. Thank you so much for watching too! Part two is on its way.
Hey there! Part 2 was just published this morning...a day ahead of schedule!
@@Brandon-3D already watched it man. I prefer procedural material as PBR one cost too much GPU memory with several good looking 4K textures.
@@phamthaiduy7435 awesome, yeah they drain it for sure. Take care and thank you!
Thanks so much for this tutorial. I see a lot of people doing tutorials on shading but they never explain the basics, they just show what it does. I am not a complete novice but I had to watch all this tutorial. Tutorials like this are a gem. you got your like and subscribe. ;)
Thank you for the work!
Thank you that’s exactly why I made it!! Really appreciate it!
Thank you, gracias, arigato gozaimasu! My fear of nodes and Cycles stopped me dead in my tracks years ago. This clear and well-organized explanation has helped me more than you know.
@Brandon's Drawings You are a god at explaining this. Even my mom would understand shading in Blender watching this.
LOL. Definitely not a God but I'm glad it was helpful. Sorry this took so long to reply to, I got a little overwhelmed with comments there. Thank you so much for watching and for the kind words!
18:07 My mind is blown. There were a lot of good tips, but this feels like magic.
Dude!...You rock man!
This will come in so handy.
I was mentioning just last week to a colleague that there must be some kind of a "Recipe Cookbook" where they explain what does what.
Boooom! I found this today.
Awesome!
Thanks for doing this, Brandon.
🤘😎🤘
I LOVE THIS. THIS IS SO PRECISE AND HELPFUL, THANK YOU! HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY SIR
VERY WELL EXPLAINED.
THANKS
Thank you!!!! 🙏
Thank you Brandon.
you are very welcome!
Really splendid video. Excellent style: getting the most out of every second. Thank you, sir.
Thank you. That’s exactly what I hoped for! Take care!
This video is godlike, or rather godsent. Absolute Top Tier stuff
LOL....Very kind of you. I appreciate it and glad it was helpful.
very very very very great toturial.. thank you so much Brandon's. it's a big help for me.
Thank you and really glad to hear it helped!
Wonderful tutorial, entirely lucid, well presented, and very useful to a noob like me. The Shader nodes make so much more sense now.
Learn the "SUPER-BASICS", that shall be the true name of this tutorial. 😸Real good, educational content here; congrats for this magnificent Shading introduction content to Blender! Appropriate theoretical inputs here and there also, even though not the focus, this helps a lot; not just crude technical inputs.
Thank you so much!!
holy shit thank you so much! i'd been struggling with my older version of element but this one is perfect Thank you so much! I swear non of the other tutorials worked but this one did! ily
This video is EXTREMELY helpful! You just got a sub.
I tried to learn the node system quite a few times but failed everytime . This video made my fear go away from blender nodes. To the point delivery of content and simple explanation with real evamples .just perfect ❤.
Glad it helped, keep going! It eventually makes more and more sense.
Ok, this is definitely the best basic node tutorial I've ever seen, even since Blender 2.7! It's really well explained, I'm finally understanding the basic concepts of working with nodes in Blender. Thanks a lot for this video!!
Very helpful. Thank you for making this!
Glad you liked it, thank you!!
The best shader nodes tutorial I’ve ever seen. Thank you and great job!
That is so awesome if you to say. Thank you!!
i really apreciate your help with dowloanding this software
As a beginner this thumbnail got my heart pumping out of fear. I'll update when i finish and see how far i get with the tips.
Well??
@@Brandon-3D haven't watched yet lol. Adhd.
My builds are all low poly haven't made high poly yet, will these be any of help in my field?
Amazing video, really wanted to get through these basics for a better understanding :)
You are amazing, thank you😍😍❤❤❤❤❤❤
Awww 🙏 thank you!
Mind Blowing, Best blender tutorial, have subscribed
Your demo of how to create magics by using the nodes in this 3D tool literally made me tear at 18:25. This is an unforgettable moment for me as I usually do not cry, especially on the other half of the sphere of the earth, thousand miles away from you, during midnight, alone atm. While I'm impressed by the flexibility and a variety of possibilities this skill empowers me, I deeply feel the vibes of what a CG world has to offer and the connections in between. I really appreciate mentors like you who kindly endow normal people like me with a magic wand to unleash our creative minds the way we always dream about before we set our feet on this wonderland. Thank you for the explicit, direct to the point, and whole explanation of how to do it right. Immediately solved the issue on my project. Bless you.
Thank you Thank you Thank you for you 👍
This tutorial has really helped me get out of a rut. The pacing was excellent and explained just enough to allow for experimentation. Glad I found it!
Amazing, straight forward and easy (enough) to understand information Brandon. Thank you.
From ❤ you are teaching
God bless you. And thank you
Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial!! This finally broke down nodes in a way that wasn't as intimidating as it has always been for me. I highly appreciate your attention to speaking slowly, clearly, with good diction that makes the audio easy to follow, and your use of zoom to focus in on areas of the window that you're working with directly. I'm definitely subscribing for more in the future, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!
Thank you so much... finally the light in the end of the tunnel 🤣
Glad to hear it helped, thank you!
Wow information dense tutorial! I will have to watch this one like 20x to get everything out of it
really great explanations here. a lot of tutorials assume you know this basic stuff, even the 'for beginners' ones.
Thanks!! That’s exactly why I wanted to make them! Appreciate the positive feedback!!
TNice tutorials was really helpful for soone coming from Ableton Live and having used Fruity Loops waaaay back in the past
Thanks!
Great coverage of the topic. And I have to say, your hint to subscribe was by far the least intrusive and most accepted I've ever seen.
Enfin j'ai pus comprendre beaucoup de subtilité des textures nodes ....Merci beaucoup !!!
Finally I was able to understand a lot of subtlety of the node textures .... Thank you lot !!!
Your tutorials and explanation videos are incredibly helpful and amazing. Keep up the fantastic work, and a big thank you for providing such valuable free content. ✊🏼
Thanks for the great video. I have been searching for a good tutorial about shading nodes in Blender for a long time and this one is really perfect.
Man, that means a lot to hear that it was valuable. Thank you so much and take care!
Awesome ressource! I'm not a beginner with nodes and have been doing VFX for a few years now, but I often look for good tutorials to reference to others. A little correction for the W input: It's not really an animation factor. It is the seed of the texture currently displayed (default is 0 even for 3D mode). Entering integer values will always result in a totally different pattern. However transitioning with a floating point, so displaying values in steps
FANTASTIC!!!! Just what I needed!
So simple and detailed video, it's now going to help to start working wid softsoft!!
thank you for this tutorial, couldnt have understood nodes before watching this
Fantastic tutorial!!
THANK YOU!!!!
wow, thank you so much... this video really helped me as an absolute beginner to understand much more of the basics!!!
Glad it was useful, thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment. Means a lot!
I struggled with this in maya 3d animation school....concepts are hard to teach and you did a great job, ty
Really wonderful & clear explanation! Best 29 minutes of the day! loved it😄😄
That is so cool to hear and nice of you to say. Thank you so much and take care!
Your tutorials are the best in youtube. Great work. Thanks a lot
Wow thank you so much!!! Really appreciate the kind words!
Great material, thank you very much!!!
Thank you so much!!!
This is the most informative, educationally adept, and technically precise Blender tute I've ever seen. And I've watched, and subscribed to, and paid for a LOT. Maybe it's a learning style thing, but wow. THANK you. I maaaaay need to make a PDF version of this (including the anecdotal edits 😆).
I totally agree…a pretty complex process explained in the most easy to grasp manner…perfect starter tutorial for all ages
Thank you so much!!
You deserve a million of likes. Thank you for explaining every detail in shading 👍
Absolute Legend. Ty so much for this. As a complete beginner to Blender, I needed tis vid!
Really glad to hear it was helpful. Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave the note! Always appreciated!
@@Brandon-3D I can appreciate the work and time it takes. Im Building my debut game and have been working in Unreal. I understand Nodes and the like however Im not familiar with any of the UI or layout of Blender so this vid was a hidden gem and a huge help. Ill be sure to revisit after I launch the game and thank you properly.
Great video, thanks for making it. One suggestion though: review the click sound. This thing hits your soul for some reason, very sharp noise. Someone with better sound knowledge than myself might be able to point out the reason.
Once again, thanks!
Really enjoyed watching this and feel it makes it so much easier to grasp the essentials without getting lost in complexity.Thanks Brandon, this is so helpful.
Hey Arthur, I’m really glad it was helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave the comment!
this is the series I was looking for! great video, I can't wait to part 2. keep it up man!
That is so awesome to hear that you like it, I’m working on part two now! Thank you!
Hey there! Part 2 was just published this morning...a day ahead of schedule!
Amazing tutorial 😍😍😍
Thank you very much!!!
up to now. Your soft is great too!
This really helped me thank you!!
Glad to hear it helped. Thank you for your support!