I will post tutorials for Blender and maybe some other programs in this thread. Please feel free to post questions, other posts, or even other tutorials in this thread. All the tutorials will be linked from the first post, and different parts of tutorials will be linked with each other, so your posts won't make anything…
Previous & Table of Contents This setup tints the specularity looking straight on and leaves it achromatic at the edges, which is accurate. How about a rough plastic now? At a first glance, this might look OK to some of you, but it's actually got too much specularity around the edges. If you observe some real-world rough…
Table of Contents Image-Based Lighting in Cycles Blend File Image-based lighting is a good way to quickly light your shot to better match a real-world environment. Cycles makes a lot of tools available to help you deal with image-based lights, and I'll show you a few tricks I've figured out. Start by checking "Multiple…
Table of Contents High Quality Normal Mapping in Cycles Blend File Cycles and other path tracers are particularly susceptible to what I call the mirage problem when you apply normal maps or bump maps to the mesh. This occurs when you put a normal map on a mesh that bends the reflection vector too far away from the…