Another incredible tutorial from a Blender Procedural Master Craftsman. What a BRILLIANT technique. Absolutely BRILLIANT! I will certainly be using this in future projects. You are without doubt, an exceptional talent. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. THANK YOU! Dg
Wow. I've been learning blender from youtube tutorials for almost 3 years now and this is by far the best tutorial I've ever seen. I thought I had a good grasp on shading nodes, but this video was humbling to say the least. I had to pause the video every 5 seconds, but damn I learned a lot. Thank you for making this man.
well that's the longest I've ever spent on a 25 minute tutorial!!! given the speed you did it I had an extra modulo early on which you took out and I missed that you did - messed up my white noise texture for the bricks for a bit BUT debugging that taught me a great deal. So thank you - I've learned so much today!
Ah yeah you have to keep an eye on how I add and remove things 😅 I think I've got a bit more explicit saying what's going on since this one. Glad you made you through!
I'm watching in amazement. This is the way to make materials. Using nodes you can really access the full power of Blender. Everyone watching this should be super grateful that you're sharing. Thank you. I have to find how to help.
I've been watching other channel's procedural material, and although I didn't fully understand 100%, I'm still able to use some of the methods to create my own basic procedural material for my 3d scenes, but... this tutorial level's completely out of my mind to understand. I can't even understand the procedural since the beginning of the video 0_o. I definitely need to watch your earlier tutorial videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us :)
I try to keep things pretty thorough. Sometimes it can be a bit of a barrage of information but once you get it, you can hopefully use the techniques instead of just being able to copy the one material! Hopefully haha Let me know if there are things you want explaining
This is Mariana Trench in depth programmatic procedural texturing, it's Buzz Lightyear, "To infinity...and beyond!" Absolutely great knowledge, thank you !
OMG! You are a procedural texture god! I've spent the last 3 days watching your bricks, knitted and hexagonal videos - A-M-A-Z-I-N-G thank you so much for showing this!!!
Hey guys I got caught up when Erin switched to cycles during the displacement work. I'm in blender 2.92 After checking multiple things if your material is still black check to make sure you do not have duplicate materials. My issue was the Material output was set to "Eevee" not "Cycles" at the end of the node chain. Best of luck ! Awesome tutorial Erin thank you so much looking forward to more!
@@Erindale right at that part i noticed that my displacement did not give me the look that it gave you. my bricks are pointed do you have any advice to how i can fix that?
I am impressed at how fast and fluid your presentations are if this is one take I am flabbergasted. Picked up a load of interesting side notes once again, thank you so much!
Really great tutorial. Please keep making these tutorials. would love to see more techniques and if possible can you please talk more about math nodes in general and different techniques
This is a great tutorial, however you've sometimes changed some values here and there in the middle without showing, so sometimes I'm getting wrong results than you're showing. Even with that, it's a great tutorial and learnt many new things. Thanks.
I'm just starting to learn nodes to do materials. But how amazing this is., this tutorial is going too fast for me. Eight minutes in the video,with pause and rewind, I spend more than one hour on the clock. I have now vertical mortar lines running from top to bottom, so I must have missed a value or two. To have an overview, I printed out the final node screenshot. But the values are not really readable for my old eyes and the noodles play hide and seek under the black ink. Next weekend with some new free time and courage I will try again. I must do this.
A note for the people who can't find the Adaptive Subdivision checkbox at 9:25 , navigate to the Scene in the properties tab and make sure your Feature Set is set to Experimental. Adaptive Subdivision will not show up if it is set to supported.
Any idea what this changed to in Blender 3? I don't seem to have Adaptive Displacement or Experimental Feature Set as options. **Edit**: Aha! Okay, in Properties > Scene, you've got to choose Cycles as the Render Engine, then Experimental as the Feature Set. Then you'll have Adaptive Subdivision available under Properties > Modifier Properties.
Seems like a great tutorial. Tried to follow it using version 3.3 of Blender, but couldn't make the cracks work. Tried asking help in Discord but was unfortunatly promptly ignored. Kept going on with the tutorial and tried to recreate the shaders just as they are in the provided image afterwards. Ruined most of the previous progress, that was working just fine. Yes, I have little to no experience with blenders shaders. For those using more recent versions of blender, I'm not certain that it still works. If anyone had a different experience using newer versions of blender, and happens to be reading this, I would be happy to be proven wrong and try again. Thank you.
Shaders have seen next to no updates in a long time so I'm confident that the workflow is still the same. You will be able to get answers on discord but sometimes it just takes a bit of time for people who know shaders to be around to see the question
trying to make this work in b4.0.2 - no success. after displacement node, the bricks do not stand out. might be my fault , i do not use cycles often , beside , i have cuda enabled , not sure. thx for sharing , i love the end result , wish i could replicate it
Make sure you have subdivision on your plane to a high level (or better yet have experimental turned on so you have adaptive subdivision) and then in your shader make sure that you have displacement turned on as an option
Вау вау! Это именно то, что я сейчас пытаюсь сделать! Огромное спасибо за видео!!! Wow Wow! That's exactly what I'm trying to do! Thank you so much for the video!!!
Yeah shaders are crazy! Because you can basically tell the camera what it sees at every pixel, you can literally turn anything into anything. There are a bunch of people who just work in the world shader with no objects at all 🤯
Awesome tutoria but i didnt really understand the math behind it. so it would be great to have a seperate tutorials on how it works (or how the math nodes interact with each other) im new to shaders i would appreaciate basic stuff for noobies like me :D
Incredible video! It helps a lot for things that needs unequal brick walls. Unfortuntly it doesn't work for me since the start, I have everything until minute 9:24 and it just shows a color(if Material Output is set to "Everything") or pink(if it's on Cycles), no bricks or lines at all.
this is really useful and I love the result. I could even forgive the speed but is it just me or do things constantly change without being mentioned because of your fast editing? I'm trying to follow along even though its too fast and then all of a sudden there is some node, setting or value that's been changed and I'm thinking when did he tell us to do that?
If I didn't say it then it'll only be a small tweak thats not going to actually alter the final material. The system is the important part and the inputs can be pretty arbitrary. I know some channels will tell you the exact numbers to put in but unless it's got a specific reason I avoid that or am intentionally vague because I find it doesn't help people learn if they think they need specific values for it to work! Have faith in the nodes! The data through them is secondary
@@Erindale It's handy to know what changed when when following along because, especially with the speed, keeping up with your process means pausing and comparing outputs. As those small changes cascade you may not be sure why something doesn't look the way it does. Totally agree that for the output it's arbitrary
I feel as if I just audited a calc III class. uh... okay, that was certainly more than I bargained for! haha But you know, I tried to do some shading type things inside geometry nodes and there are many nodes you can't access from geometry nodes section so that seemed weird to me. Like, you can SET MATERIAL but you can't do all the other stuff you can in shading tab and then... it just messes up my whole day. Thx for the vid even though it's way beyond what I'd ever try to do with bricks.
better video title would have been: "every blender materials trick in 25 minutes" seriously, i will rewatch this video a few times and learn what i've done wrong in the past, only to know, that there is a "map to" node is so useful
@@Erindale It is indeed packed full of goodies. A bit challenging for a noob in math at first watch but thanks to the power of the internet I will be studying this videos for weeks to come ! Thank you heaps !
For anyone that are beginning to use blender. If this video doesn't work for you don't forget to subdivide the plane...something that is missing from this video....
@@dannydarko. It's a standard plane and I'm using a Subdivide modifier. You need to be in Cycles with the experimental feature set and you'll be able to turn on Adaptive Subdivision.
A bit more difficult because it's a 2D texture. I would probably go with box mapping or triplanar mapping which is where you mask out each axis individually and then recombine the coordinates into XY vectors. Using the Geometry node Normal you can separateXYZ and then use math nodes to find where X is greater than both Y and Z, and then also where Y is greater than X and Z. Again on the geometry node you have a Position socket, this is your world coordinates. separateXYZ on this and then you need 3 combineXYZ nodes. XY - XY, YZ - XY, XZ - XY. These are the three axis projections. Using MixRGB nodes set to mix you can put XY into colour 1 and YZ into colour 2 while using the X is greater mask as fac then another MixRGB, plug the first into colour 1, XZ into colour 2 and Y is greater mask into fac. This should output (in theory) your box mapping coordinates which you can use instead of UVs.
Man, I am truly amazed by this... You put PRO in procedural. I would like to ask you a question. Did you learn any theory to understand all the blend modes, mixing and math operations enough to know how to combine them into this masterpiece? Or is it pure experimenting and experience?
For me it was all experimentation. At some point I wanted to understand things more thoroughly and researched Blend modes etc (I have a video on that) but that's generally been something I've learned afterwards so I can be more optimised. I normally just go on making stuff look right by playing although I do now have a lot of the maths in my head from practice!
Dude this literally looks like black magic, if you havent already, you have to upload this to Reddit, I suggest r/nextfuckinglevel or something like that
Great tutorial! I appreciate how fast and condensed this was. For some reason that I can't figure out though, my vector-snap node outputs tiles that are stretched all the way on the X, when the proportions for everything else match the video, resulting in every brick in the same row having the same rotation offset.
Just make sure that you have the sockets all plugged in right. The vector input to the snap node should be from the same Combine XYZ as the modulo and the Increment socket should have the Brick Size combineXYZ plugged into it (and make sure the Brick Size is using the X and Y values). If it still doesn't work you're welcome to send me the file to check either by email or on Discord!
Hi erin, am having trouble to understand the part where you substract your brick size/2 - the absoluted uv coordinates, how do you know that you gonna get that spacing?
So I know the bricks are eg, a 0-1 gradient across. So subtracting half the size will set the gradient to -0.5 - 0.5. Absolute then ignores the sign so we end up with 0.5 - 0 - 0.5 and I know I want to use burn to get my mortar width and smooth minimum to get my round corners so I have to invert the gradient. To invert a gradient you can subtract it from the highest value. You'll often see people doing 1-gradient instead of using an invert node. In this case, the highest value will be half the brick size so we can take that, subtract the absolute from it and that'll give us the correct gradients starting at 0 on the outside of the bricks.
@@Erindale oh i love this kind of explanations, i know that you cant do this extent to every part of the nodes, its really hard for me to do something without fully understand it :(, thanks a lot for your time
Man the content of this channel is super cool! Question: is this a post (cut) version from a stream ? or did you intentionally wanted to post a short video ? because some of the sections are really fast for beginners, and i usually rely on mouse movement when am lost but the cuts are not helping haha. either way, this is super helpful!
Thank you! This was not a stream, just a process walkthrough of making the wall shader! I think you might find that most of my videos are super condensed down. I get a lot of comments to slow down a bit but I keep forgetting when I edit 😅 I'll try and tone them down a bit!
Nice Tutorial with using the updated nodes! The only issue I have with using Displacement, especially with Bricks, are the corners. Rarely will you see a brick wall just hanging out in 1 direction, usually it's wrapped around a building. Any way to get the mortar concave like a finger wiped it?
True! You would have the same issue using seamless textures really. What I've done sometimes if I can't line it up to look "good enough" is I will model the corner bricks and apply the same material and just position on the corners of buildings
Such a great video, with so ragged montage. :D Some lil steps with numbers are missing, so then u repeat it with ur texture u just cant understand "watta hell is wrong with it, is it my hands grow from the wrong place??" So u keep looking again and again, once u notice " dumn numbers are wrong!11 Oh cmon!~ " :DDD
Looks good, but really to fast for beginners. - Pauze video - add the node (really slow) return to vid: "we not gona use that node *deletes node*" OMG I gona watch it all, but on low speed, my texture turned complete black when doing the xyz changes - and thats like only a bit over 2min in the video Edit: blackness happens with the scales, since my object is huge i need to fine tune them a bit
I'm using a Sudotack condenser mic that wasn't too expensive on Amazon! If you have a cell phone though you can just use the mic on that! They usually actually record really well!
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If you're having trouble, leave a comment or swing by the Discord where we all hang out! discord.gg/qEmdVC3
Its the best node tut i have ever seen plz make more.
Thanks much!
how amazing to have full control over your textures instead of looking desperately for Normal maps, that's so powerful
I hate how underrated this amazing content is ! Its freaking Awesome !
Thank you!!
Holy shmuck i just realised how powerful the vector and math nodes are. Thank you sooo much for this amazing tutorial Erindale. You’re a truee genius
Yeah seriously! A little bit of maths goes a long way! Thank you
okay, now thats something that I really wanted
Thanks Vishnu! I hope it's useful!
My jaw actually dropped watching you do the vector math at the beginning
Vector math is the MVP
So did mine
I went from 0 to 100 on my node-mix understanding with this tutorial! Thanks!
Great to hear! Mixes are incredibly powerful
The amount of logic translated into a visual pattern here is astounding. Thanks for this.
Thank you so much!
Another incredible tutorial from a Blender Procedural Master Craftsman. What a BRILLIANT technique. Absolutely BRILLIANT!
I will certainly be using this in future projects. You are without doubt, an exceptional talent. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. THANK YOU! Dg
Ah thank you my friend! That's very kind of you!
Wow. I've been learning blender from youtube tutorials for almost 3 years now and this is by far the best tutorial I've ever seen. I thought I had a good grasp on shading nodes, but this video was humbling to say the least. I had to pause the video every 5 seconds, but damn I learned a lot. Thank you for making this man.
Glad to hear it! Thanks so much
absolutely mind blowing
well that's the longest I've ever spent on a 25 minute tutorial!!! given the speed you did it I had an extra modulo early on which you took out and I missed that you did - messed up my white noise texture for the bricks for a bit BUT debugging that taught me a great deal. So thank you - I've learned so much today!
Ah yeah you have to keep an eye on how I add and remove things 😅 I think I've got a bit more explicit saying what's going on since this one. Glad you made you through!
I'm watching in amazement. This is the way to make materials. Using nodes you can really access the full power of Blender. Everyone watching this should be super grateful that you're sharing. Thank you. I have to find how to help.
Thanks! It's also the most fun way to make materials 😁
Wow mate, from someone who makes tutorials, you are making some spectacular stuff. Keep it up!
Thank you so much CG!
Insane level of noding. Much respect!
Thank you. I was looking for exactly how to make each brick have a unique texture.
I've been watching other channel's procedural material, and although I didn't fully understand 100%, I'm still able to use some of the methods to create my own basic procedural material for my 3d scenes, but... this tutorial level's completely out of my mind to understand. I can't even understand the procedural since the beginning of the video 0_o. I definitely need to watch your earlier tutorial videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us :)
I try to keep things pretty thorough. Sometimes it can be a bit of a barrage of information but once you get it, you can hopefully use the techniques instead of just being able to copy the one material! Hopefully haha Let me know if there are things you want explaining
This is Mariana Trench in depth programmatic procedural texturing, it's Buzz Lightyear, "To infinity...and beyond!"
Absolutely great knowledge, thank you !
Ah thank you! I'm glad it's valuable!
OMG! You are a procedural texture god! I've spent the last 3 days watching your bricks, knitted and hexagonal videos - A-M-A-Z-I-N-G
thank you so much for showing this!!!
Glad to hear that! Thanks so much!
@@Erindale Can you do one for stitching, cross stitching or embroidery?
Oh interesting I will look into it!
This man is a wizard
Thanks Jai!
Hey guys I got caught up when Erin switched to cycles during the displacement work. I'm in blender 2.92
After checking multiple things if your material is still black check to make sure you do not have duplicate materials. My issue was the Material output was set to "Eevee" not "Cycles" at the end of the node chain. Best of luck ! Awesome tutorial Erin thank you so much looking forward to more!
Ah great tip! That's definitely caught me out a few times
@@Erindale right at that part i noticed that my displacement did not give me the look that it gave you. my bricks are pointed do you have any advice to how i can fix that?
Have you got your subdiv modifier set to adaptive?
@@Erindale this was my issue and clicking adaptive solved it. thank you!
I am impressed at how fast and fluid your presentations are if this is one take I am flabbergasted. Picked up a load of interesting side notes once again, thank you so much!
Really great tutorial. Please keep making these tutorials. would love to see more techniques and if possible can you please talk more about math nodes in general and different techniques
Thanks! I'll definitely try to include more things about maths nodes!
So much detail for a brick
"Jaunty bricks". Great description
This is a great tutorial, however you've sometimes changed some values here and there in the middle without showing, so sometimes I'm getting wrong results than you're showing. Even with that, it's a great tutorial and learnt many new things. Thanks.
lmao mf skipped right over you
Insanely good demonstration, pure vector magic.
Thanks so much Mark!
@@Erindale Thank you, really thank you!
I'm just starting to learn nodes to do materials. But how amazing this is., this tutorial is going too fast for me. Eight minutes in the video,with pause and rewind, I spend more than one hour on the clock. I have now vertical mortar lines running from top to bottom, so I must have missed a value or two.
To have an overview, I printed out the final node screenshot. But the values are not really readable for my old eyes and the noodles play hide and seek under the black ink.
Next weekend with some new free time and courage I will try again. I must do this.
Set it .5x speed. Pace seemed just right there for a beginner like me
Good God!! You must have an IQ of 300. I'm so envious.
You are indeed a master of proceduralism.
Haha thank you
A note for the people who can't find the Adaptive Subdivision checkbox at 9:25 , navigate to the Scene in the properties tab and make sure your Feature Set is set to Experimental. Adaptive Subdivision will not show up if it is set to supported.
Yes!! for the people that noticed nothing happened then they plugged in the displacement to the profile depth
Any idea what this changed to in Blender 3? I don't seem to have Adaptive Displacement or Experimental Feature Set as options.
**Edit**: Aha! Okay, in Properties > Scene, you've got to choose Cycles as the Render Engine, then Experimental as the Feature Set. Then you'll have Adaptive Subdivision available under Properties > Modifier Properties.
incredible! the levels you take this to is unreal, amazing work.
Thanks so much!
Seems like a great tutorial. Tried to follow it using version 3.3 of Blender, but couldn't make the cracks work. Tried asking help in Discord but was unfortunatly promptly ignored. Kept going on with the tutorial and tried to recreate the shaders just as they are in the provided image afterwards. Ruined most of the previous progress, that was working just fine. Yes, I have little to no experience with blenders shaders.
For those using more recent versions of blender, I'm not certain that it still works.
If anyone had a different experience using newer versions of blender, and happens to be reading this, I would be happy to be proven wrong and try again. Thank you.
Shaders have seen next to no updates in a long time so I'm confident that the workflow is still the same. You will be able to get answers on discord but sometimes it just takes a bit of time for people who know shaders to be around to see the question
@@Erindale Thanks for the feedback! I will give it another try then, maybe I missed something.
trying to make this work in b4.0.2 - no success. after displacement node, the bricks do not stand out. might be my fault , i do not use cycles often , beside , i have cuda enabled , not sure. thx for sharing , i love the end result , wish i could replicate it
Make sure you have subdivision on your plane to a high level (or better yet have experimental turned on so you have adaptive subdivision) and then in your shader make sure that you have displacement turned on as an option
Erindale...you are a node god! Thanks for putting this together...amazing!
Вау вау! Это именно то, что я сейчас пытаюсь сделать! Огромное спасибо за видео!!! Wow Wow! That's exactly what I'm trying to do! Thank you so much for the video!!!
Thanks! I'm glad it's useful!
Thank you very much for sharing your thought process and workflow for creating procedural shaders :)
You're welcome, thank you!
Just starting to learn Blender. This is advanced! I like it. Learning a lot.
Good luck with your Blender journey!
You might not realize that but You have as smooth voice as dr Bashirs from DS9.
Also amazing tutorial.
Yeeehaaaa, this is pretty intense. Gotta watch it carefully but I see it contains DA WISDOM if I ever want to master shader nodes ;)
Thanks a lot.
Thanks man
how can u think something like that!! that's amazing dude 😻 wow
from a f-ing 2D plane you can make a convincing 3D texture :0
I need to try this
Yeah shaders are crazy! Because you can basically tell the camera what it sees at every pixel, you can literally turn anything into anything. There are a bunch of people who just work in the world shader with no objects at all 🤯
This is pure gold content! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I love these bricks
holy shit this was so fucking fun to watch!!!! I'm gonna have to re-watch this a couple more times.
I'm glad! Nodes can be great fun!
My brain hurts with those video cuts man. Just giving you feedback for future.
Thanks. I mainly do Livestreams now so no cuts at all
Thanks a LOT! Everything working just fine!
bloody hell, i just wanted to know how to add simple brick texture ;)
Hahahaha simple smh
This is crazy, yet so informative! Imma keep my eye out for other and next videos!
I'm glad you liked it! Thanks!
This is a huge job, wow wow wow, many many thanks for sharing!!! Really this is amaaazing!!! Thank you so much
Thanks! Enjoy
Thankyou for accepting my request. GOLD
Really great amazing shader node tutorial
Thanks so much
very nice! very complex too. great learning! great stuff!
Thanks so much! Glad it was useful!
Awsome,
Is there any plan to make procedural leaf😁
Masterfully done. I need to watch a few tutorials to fully make sense of this tutorial. Much appreciated :)
How do you have under 3k subs??? Your tutorials are awesome! You got a new subscriber!
Thank you! It is such a niche so I'm happy for even one person to learn something here!
Awesome!!!
Thanks Adriano!
Gonna try this later. Great stuff.
Good luck!
Damn ! That's next level stuff ! Very informative THX !
You're welcome! Thank you!
Awesome Erin!! Thank u for sharing it :)
Thank you Jose!
This was great man! Love the way this looks
Thanks so much!
Awesome and thanks!
Thanks Taylor!
Just wow and omg.
Thanks so much!
That was an awesome tutorial! Very unique. Hope to see more like this. I subbed. Great work!
Thanks so much!
Thank you, the tutorial was awesome, Excellent.
Thanks so much!
Awesome tutoria but i didnt really understand the math behind it. so it would be great to have a seperate tutorials on how it works (or how the math nodes interact with each other)
im new to shaders i would appreaciate basic stuff for noobies like me :D
Have a look at Just3DThings channel. Charan over there talks more about the specific maths :)
This is incredible!
Thanks so much!
Beautiful, thank you so much.
Thank you!
astonishing
Thank you!
gotta mention your clean taskbar there, nevertheless another quality tutorial!
Thank you! I hate clutter 😅
This looks amazing. I don't understand anything though. Hope I understand it some day.
I've got a bunch of tutorials that cover the basics a little bit slower! I think you should be able to follow this is you watch the first two!
Sure. I will definitely check it out
this is the only tutorial, I've watched in 0.5x speed
Thank you!! The algorithm will count this as 200% engagement 😍
@@Erindale thank you too btw, nice vids
Nice Bricks and nice channel. Thanks for tutorial
Thanks for watching!
Incredible video! It helps a lot for things that needs unequal brick walls. Unfortuntly it doesn't work for me since the start, I have everything until minute 9:24 and it just shows a color(if Material Output is set to "Everything") or pink(if it's on Cycles), no bricks or lines at all.
Mygodable!
this is really useful and I love the result. I could even forgive the speed but is it just me or do things constantly change without being mentioned because of your fast editing? I'm trying to follow along even though its too fast and then all of a sudden there is some node, setting or value that's been changed and I'm thinking when did he tell us to do that?
If I didn't say it then it'll only be a small tweak thats not going to actually alter the final material. The system is the important part and the inputs can be pretty arbitrary. I know some channels will tell you the exact numbers to put in but unless it's got a specific reason I avoid that or am intentionally vague because I find it doesn't help people learn if they think they need specific values for it to work! Have faith in the nodes! The data through them is secondary
@@Erindale It's handy to know what changed when when following along because, especially with the speed, keeping up with your process means pausing and comparing outputs. As those small changes cascade you may not be sure why something doesn't look the way it does. Totally agree that for the output it's arbitrary
I feel as if I just audited a calc III class. uh... okay, that was certainly more than I bargained for! haha But you know, I tried to do some shading type things inside geometry nodes and there are many nodes you can't access from geometry nodes section so that seemed weird to me. Like, you can SET MATERIAL but you can't do all the other stuff you can in shading tab and then... it just messes up my whole day. Thx for the vid even though it's way beyond what I'd ever try to do with bricks.
better video title would have been: "every blender materials trick in 25 minutes"
seriously, i will rewatch this video a few times and learn what i've done wrong in the past,
only to know, that there is a "map to" node is so useful
Hah thank you! Going through materials in this way can get quite information dense - I'm glad it's useful!
@@Erindale It is indeed packed full of goodies. A bit challenging for a noob in math at first watch but thanks to the power of the internet I will be studying this videos for weeks to come ! Thank you heaps !
Ah jaysus man. Too much math, my head exploded :D ;)
For anyone that are beginning to use blender.
If this video doesn't work for you don't forget to subdivide the plane...something that is missing from this video....
Ah I didn't realise I didn't mention! Thank you!
@@Erindale you welcome...love your work...amazing ...I'm learning from you.
I'm not very good with procedural
@@dannydarko. It's a standard plane and I'm using a Subdivide modifier. You need to be in Cycles with the experimental feature set and you'll be able to turn on Adaptive Subdivision.
mind blowing
Thank you!
This is very good asmr
I'm really happy I found your channel, lot's of stuff to learn, thanks for sharing!
Great to hear that!
How would I go about mapping this in world coords instead of uv?
A bit more difficult because it's a 2D texture. I would probably go with box mapping or triplanar mapping which is where you mask out each axis individually and then recombine the coordinates into XY vectors.
Using the Geometry node Normal you can separateXYZ and then use math nodes to find where X is greater than both Y and Z, and then also where Y is greater than X and Z. Again on the geometry node you have a Position socket, this is your world coordinates. separateXYZ on this and then you need 3 combineXYZ nodes. XY - XY, YZ - XY, XZ - XY. These are the three axis projections. Using MixRGB nodes set to mix you can put XY into colour 1 and YZ into colour 2 while using the X is greater mask as fac then another MixRGB, plug the first into colour 1, XZ into colour 2 and Y is greater mask into fac. This should output (in theory) your box mapping coordinates which you can use instead of UVs.
Coming directly from twitter!
That's amazing! Where do we learn how each node works?
The Blender manual is a good resource
Man, I am truly amazed by this... You put PRO in procedural.
I would like to ask you a question. Did you learn any theory to understand all the blend modes, mixing and math operations enough to know how to combine them into this masterpiece? Or is it pure experimenting and experience?
For me it was all experimentation. At some point I wanted to understand things more thoroughly and researched Blend modes etc (I have a video on that) but that's generally been something I've learned afterwards so I can be more optimised. I normally just go on making stuff look right by playing although I do now have a lot of the maths in my head from practice!
@@Erindale thank you
dude this is a journey.. . its longe than making a full 1hr animation :))))) just for brike
Wow! Thank you
Thank YOU
The craziest thing. Awesome. But. I need to play it on 0.0000025 speed to get it all and understand your work. I feels I’m not so clever as you))))
Haha thanks! If it helps, even being pretty fluent at this stuff, it still takes me about 80-90 minutes to get around a material like this!
Dude this literally looks like black magic, if you havent already, you have to upload this to Reddit, I suggest r/nextfuckinglevel or something like that
Ah thanks man! I appreciate that!
Great tutorial! I appreciate how fast and condensed this was. For some reason that I can't figure out though, my vector-snap node outputs tiles that are stretched all the way on the X, when the proportions for everything else match the video, resulting in every brick in the same row having the same rotation offset.
Just make sure that you have the sockets all plugged in right. The vector input to the snap node should be from the same Combine XYZ as the modulo and the Increment socket should have the Brick Size combineXYZ plugged into it (and make sure the Brick Size is using the X and Y values). If it still doesn't work you're welcome to send me the file to check either by email or on Discord!
Very nice and pro!
Thank you!
Quick question, which of these nodes in the tree do I fiddle with to change the width to length ratio of the bricks?
Hi erin, am having trouble to understand the part where you substract your brick size/2 - the absoluted uv coordinates, how do you know that you gonna get that spacing?
So I know the bricks are eg, a 0-1 gradient across. So subtracting half the size will set the gradient to -0.5 - 0.5. Absolute then ignores the sign so we end up with 0.5 - 0 - 0.5 and I know I want to use burn to get my mortar width and smooth minimum to get my round corners so I have to invert the gradient. To invert a gradient you can subtract it from the highest value. You'll often see people doing 1-gradient instead of using an invert node. In this case, the highest value will be half the brick size so we can take that, subtract the absolute from it and that'll give us the correct gradients starting at 0 on the outside of the bricks.
@@Erindale oh i love this kind of explanations, i know that you cant do this extent to every part of the nodes, its really hard for me to do something without fully understand it
:(, thanks a lot for your time
You are the guy who create blender right? No one can do st like math node man, too crazy
Man the content of this channel is super cool!
Question:
is this a post (cut) version from a stream ? or did you intentionally wanted to post a short video ?
because some of the sections are really fast for beginners, and i usually rely on mouse movement when am lost but the cuts are not helping haha.
either way, this is super helpful!
Thank you! This was not a stream, just a process walkthrough of making the wall shader! I think you might find that most of my videos are super condensed down. I get a lot of comments to slow down a bit but I keep forgetting when I edit 😅 I'll try and tone them down a bit!
@@Erindale haha cheers!
Blender Developer : shit!! we didn't meant this! what did you do dude?
Nice Tutorial with using the updated nodes! The only issue I have with using Displacement, especially with Bricks, are the corners. Rarely will you see a brick wall just hanging out in 1 direction, usually it's wrapped around a building. Any way to get the mortar concave like a finger wiped it?
True! You would have the same issue using seamless textures really. What I've done sometimes if I can't line it up to look "good enough" is I will model the corner bricks and apply the same material and just position on the corners of buildings
Such a great video, with so ragged montage. :D
Some lil steps with numbers are missing, so then u repeat it with ur texture u just cant understand "watta hell is wrong with it, is it my hands grow from the wrong place??" So u keep looking again and again, once u notice " dumn numbers are wrong!11 Oh cmon!~ " :DDD
Looks good, but really to fast for beginners. - Pauze video - add the node (really slow) return to vid: "we not gona use that node *deletes node*" OMG
I gona watch it all, but on low speed, my texture turned complete black when doing the xyz changes - and thats like only a bit over 2min in the video
Edit: blackness happens with the scales, since my object is huge i need to fine tune them a bit
Being able to debug your shaders and reach the end of the tutorial is a learning experience in itself 😁 good luck!
Excellent stuff. I'd love to make some videos. I haven't found a mic, $$$.
I'm using a Sudotack condenser mic that wasn't too expensive on Amazon! If you have a cell phone though you can just use the mic on that! They usually actually record really well!
@@Erindale You speak the true true. I will do as I can. Nice voice btw.