hey gang - so this is what i got lol the wireframe solutions in particular have been bugging me - there must be a better way anyhow... if you wanted to try out brilliant here is that info: To try everything Brilliant has to offer-free-for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/CGMatter/ . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription.
Dude, I've been collecting ways to detect edges/wireframes, and it's a pain. It's simple enough by using geonodes and generating real geo, but doing it via shader only (especially in Eevee) is kinda hard. You can store edge angles as attributes and then use it for shading (good edge wear), I wish you could also use geonodes to mark edges freestyle - this, I believe, is yet to be exposed as a parameter to geonodes. One very funny thing you can do to edge detect in live is to create a gaussian blur edge detector shader, and use it as a lens for your scene. You'd have to use Glass BSDF + Shader to RGB to calculate it though, since we can't otherwise blur the result easily.
Some great shader tips/hacks in this video. You should make a video on roughness truncation! I've got a tutorial on my channel but it'd be great if you popularized the technique.
I have a simple way that I do wireframes that I never hear talked about. Not a shader (or worse, modifier), but rather, I just use the wireframe viewport shading, turn off or reduce X-Ray, turn off overlays, and then Viewport Render Image or Animation. "Renders" lightning fast, and you can adjust the colors of the lines in material settings, or just make them randomized per object. You could just render it completely black and white and then composite it over a real proper render.
There were quite a few tips where I initially thought "oh, I know this one" - immediately followed by: "OOoh, that's even cleverer", really really good collection. Appreciate your speed and conciseness too. Just imagine this was in the normal youtuber speed. The moment you'd get to the end, a newer blender version would have already come out making some of these obsolete...
8:24 beware, this is a box blur and won't look very good. By summing a bunch of white noise nodes, you can get a sort of gaussian distribution (the more you have, the more accurate it will be, at the cost of performance), or you can build a circle distribution function by using xy from the white noise texture as polar coordinates and applying sqrt(x) on the radius. Good video as always :). I'll definitely use that ambient occlusion based procedural texturing technique!
nice stuff mate! pro move -even tho its already fast paced, watch at 1.25x speed and get smarter even faster (definitely not me accidently doing that lol)
4:11 just a note: this is reinterpreting the values that make up the normal vectors as points in 3D space and measuring the euclidean distance between them, so how big the output is doesn't really *mean* anything concrete besides 0 = same. it might also have a bit of an odd curve to its output. if you ever want to actually measure *how* different they are, rather than whether they're different at all, you should take the dot product of the two normals and pass it into an arc cosine, which will give you the angle difference in radians
I’ve actually used the point density node exactly once for a very specific use case. I was making a balloon animation of it inflating and deflating using cloth physics and the pressure settings, and I used point density to drive the mix factor between 2 shaders - one for the opaque, rough, darker colored deflated balloon and one for the translucent, shiny, lighter colored inflated balloon. It took a lot of time to dial in the settings but it turned out pretty good in the end. Of course, now a lot of that could be made much better and probably more easily with geometry nodes driving the factor with an attribute, but fields didn’t even exist yet back when I made it.
peak video at 8:22, you should add a vector math node set to normalize between the subtract and scale nodes to make the blur even and remove the streaks
i remember a few years ago just before geometry nodes existed, this psychopath was modeling entire scene using shader nodes, literally like a person alone in a jail with lots of walls to draw on, he thinks the shader nodes are the walls btw
A trick that I’ve used a couple of times is plugging the color from a vernoy texture Into the normal socket. This is some thing that I first saw in an old blender guru snow material tutorial.
I had been looking for how to get the vertex weight in the shader graph a few weeks ago, my Google search suggested using geometry nodes, setting an attribute and using that. Your way is much simpler!
21:20 this method has a nuance if you want one face gap between selection cause of vertex storing attribute. That can be annoying to fix this by using two vertex groups for nearby vertexes, but "Shift Ctrl Numpad +" hotkey (Select Next Active) can be usefull in these cases. I`ve also heard about edges groups and faces groups addons. Seems cool but didn`t use them
Watching these "hacks" made my brain unwrap, quad remesh, triangulate, calculate the distance from the UV coordinates to the edge of the mesh and retopologize. thank you daddy
both will behave the same as long as your object has uniform/applied scale. Basically the difference is that generated will deform when you scale your object and object will not. th-cam.com/video/_6o7FTU1jvI/w-d-xo.html
The vertex group attribute doesn't work for me, even when I connect attribute factor to view (I spelled the group correctly since I copy-pasted the name).
@@pn4960 While you have the face selected, press Ctrl-G then click "Assign to new group". If you just select the face and clicked assign, it will not work.
I've managed to get everything working except the geo proximity at 22:38 - I just have a blank face with no sign of the string. It's such a simple little node tree but I can't figure out what on earth I'm doing wrong. I can preview the meshed curve, I can preview the plane, but once I connect the Distance noodle to the viewer it's pure white. Connecting the plane geometry and the Distance to the group output just shows the plane. Any ideas?
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hey gang - so this is what i got lol
the wireframe solutions in particular have been bugging me - there must be a better way
anyhow...
if you wanted to try out brilliant here is that info:
To try everything Brilliant has to offer-free-for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/CGMatter/ . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription.
Dude, I've been collecting ways to detect edges/wireframes, and it's a pain.
It's simple enough by using geonodes and generating real geo, but doing it via shader only (especially in Eevee) is kinda hard.
You can store edge angles as attributes and then use it for shading (good edge wear), I wish you could also use geonodes to mark edges freestyle - this, I believe, is yet to be exposed as a parameter to geonodes.
One very funny thing you can do to edge detect in live is to create a gaussian blur edge detector shader, and use it as a lens for your scene. You'd have to use Glass BSDF + Shader to RGB to calculate it though, since we can't otherwise blur the result easily.
@@cowbless can you give more info on the last one?
Some great shader tips/hacks in this video. You should make a video on roughness truncation! I've got a tutorial on my channel but it'd be great if you popularized the technique.
I have a simple way that I do wireframes that I never hear talked about. Not a shader (or worse, modifier), but rather, I just use the wireframe viewport shading, turn off or reduce X-Ray, turn off overlays, and then Viewport Render Image or Animation. "Renders" lightning fast, and you can adjust the colors of the lines in material settings, or just make them randomized per object. You could just render it completely black and white and then composite it over a real proper render.
This man has achieved savant level understanding of Blender. Holy moly
All I understood is that if you spoke twice as fast, you could show us about 40 tips in the same amount of time.
There were quite a few tips where I initially thought "oh, I know this one" - immediately followed by: "OOoh, that's even cleverer", really really good collection. Appreciate your speed and conciseness too. Just imagine this was in the normal youtuber speed. The moment you'd get to the end, a newer blender version would have already come out making some of these obsolete...
This might be some the most useful material tips I have ever seen. Some of them I have googled and found no answers for. *chefs kiss*
8:24 beware, this is a box blur and won't look very good. By summing a bunch of white noise nodes, you can get a sort of gaussian distribution (the more you have, the more accurate it will be, at the cost of performance), or you can build a circle distribution function by using xy from the white noise texture as polar coordinates and applying sqrt(x) on the radius.
Good video as always :). I'll definitely use that ambient occlusion based procedural texturing technique!
Imagine walking around Blender with this amount of knowledge. Thanks for your contribution to the Blender community
nice stuff mate! pro move -even tho its already fast paced, watch at 1.25x speed and get smarter even faster (definitely not me accidently doing that lol)
4:11 just a note: this is reinterpreting the values that make up the normal vectors as points in 3D space and measuring the euclidean distance between them, so how big the output is doesn't really *mean* anything concrete besides 0 = same. it might also have a bit of an odd curve to its output. if you ever want to actually measure *how* different they are, rather than whether they're different at all, you should take the dot product of the two normals and pass it into an arc cosine, which will give you the angle difference in radians
Sampling a gradient!🤯🤯🤯🤯 Insane! Thanks!
EAT THAT SUBSTANCE PAINTER
I’ve actually used the point density node exactly once for a very specific use case. I was making a balloon animation of it inflating and deflating using cloth physics and the pressure settings, and I used point density to drive the mix factor between 2 shaders - one for the opaque, rough, darker colored deflated balloon and one for the translucent, shiny, lighter colored inflated balloon. It took a lot of time to dial in the settings but it turned out pretty good in the end.
Of course, now a lot of that could be made much better and probably more easily with geometry nodes driving the factor with an attribute, but fields didn’t even exist yet back when I made it.
I'm 3 minutes in and convinced this will probably be the greatest Blender tutorial ever made
That first tip made me yell "OH SHIT" involuntarily.
you are truly a genius, I love your tutorials.
you're the most consistent genius
peak video
at 8:22, you should add a vector math node set to normalize between the subtract and scale nodes to make the blur even and remove the streaks
i remember a few years ago just before geometry nodes existed, this psychopath was modeling entire scene using shader nodes, literally like a person alone in a jail with lots of walls to draw on, he thinks the shader nodes are the walls btw
That last tip is golden
you‘re awesome 🤙
this bevel shader, then ambient occlusion all that .. I was not ready for it, so cool!
Omg the gradient one is nuts 🚀
a true master of craft
Thank you mister CGMatter!
I didn't know about any of these tips. Thank you so much!
As usual awesome amount of knowledge in a pressed format 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
So glad all those coordinate shapes are in one handy place next time I forget them! Thanks ;-)
A trick that I’ve used a couple of times is plugging the color from a vernoy texture Into the normal socket. This is some thing that I first saw in an old blender guru snow material tutorial.
Where have you been with that gradient eyedropper tip all this time, I desperately needed that 🙏
I had been looking for how to get the vertex weight in the shader graph a few weeks ago, my Google search suggested using geometry nodes, setting an attribute and using that. Your way is much simpler!
21 lazy tutorials all in 1.
The rebar trick is my favourite
02:40 I can't believe you did not use the F2 option in the voronoi. it makes it look much more circuitboard-y
man wtf is this. Such great tips! True forbidden knowledge.
Underrated.
bro wtf my mind is so blown, insane tips
Thanks for video, didn`t even know about Point Density node 🔥
Awesome! Mindblowing during first seconds a now I am somewhere deep in space :)
You're channel is a f.cking good source of knowledge !!! Respect and as usual, really great video.
Thank you so much! These are really useful!!
Love the hairclip
You've become the Dr. Manhattan of Blender.
Some useful stuff here mate 😮
I appreciate this so much thanks
those are a really helpful tips thank you man
Jeez, I've been watching your vids for ages and wasn't subbed. Today that changes!
Great knowledge compilation! Thanks!
Incredible video. I love your channel
so good! thank you!
21:20 this method has a nuance if you want one face gap between selection cause of vertex storing attribute. That can be annoying to fix this by using two vertex groups for nearby vertexes, but "Shift Ctrl Numpad +" hotkey (Select Next Active) can be usefull in these cases. I`ve also heard about edges groups and faces groups addons. Seems cool but didn`t use them
you made my life better, not even a minute in =O thxx yous - E and drag
Thanks for the vid, try eating cap and stem of mushroom.
Awesome video!
Wtf You blow my mind in less than a minute!!!
This is actually so useful tysm for this vid
hey, who knew i could still learn one or two tricks with the shader editor
cool tips, will help with some NPR I've been doing
great stuff! thanks
I love you so much for this
awesome tips!
Hell yeah dude love your videos
Amazing tutorial! Is this the speed you normally speak or did you speed up the video in editing?
thank you for your service ; )
Super nice !
Soooo much info!
I completely zoned out from "which looks nothing like a circuit board" to "and just like that"
he literally managed to render smth out without any object.... what a legend
First tip had my jaw on the ground.
Watching these "hacks" made my brain unwrap, quad remesh, triangulate, calculate the distance from the UV coordinates to the edge of the mesh and retopologize. thank you daddy
2 mins in and I know I'm not going to sleep tonight.
mind blown!
just wow
I never seen anyone understand the vector math so well 😂 man created voronoi shapes from scratch
Greate tips!!!
I love you bro
while using box mapping, should we use generated or object and what's the difference between them?
both will behave the same as long as your object has uniform/applied scale. Basically the difference is that generated will deform when you scale your object and object will not. th-cam.com/video/_6o7FTU1jvI/w-d-xo.html
protip: use geometry position and it will use real constant position no matter object scale/rotation
AMEZINGGG..
51 seconds in and I already had to like this video you psycho3dmagician
this is the blender equivalent of the library of alexandria
5:25 wooow
Great
dude is GOD
excellent! :O)
When the video ended I realized I was hardly breathing.
To reset the UVs you don't have to make any seams at all.
The vertex group attribute doesn't work for me, even when I connect attribute factor to view (I spelled the group correctly since I copy-pasted the name).
I'm becoming insane over this
I'm using blender 4.2
@@pn4960 While you have the face selected, press Ctrl-G then click "Assign to new group". If you just select the face and clicked assign, it will not work.
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This clip should be named "I have PhD in Blender" 😄
Here for the beard. Santa Clause is real.
I've managed to get everything working except the geo proximity at 22:38 - I just have a blank face with no sign of the string. It's such a simple little node tree but I can't figure out what on earth I'm doing wrong. I can preview the meshed curve, I can preview the plane, but once I connect the Distance noodle to the viewer it's pure white. Connecting the plane geometry and the Distance to the group output just shows the plane. Any ideas?
Ah shit, I didn't subdivide the plane enough. At least now I know what I was doing wrong.
i fucking love you.
god bless you
I'm here just for the thumbnails
Wow, it's not clickbait
❤
4 years in, feel like newbie again, bro cooked
does this all live your mind😭
I get the distinct impression that you know how to do math.
Bro knows Blender ❌ Bro is Blender ✅
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click & drag for collors 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯