Shader Magic in Blender (Ver 3.41 and above)

Shader Magic in Blender (Ver 3.41 and above), available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 67 lectures, based on 31 reviews, and has 437 subscribers.

You will learn about The most common shader techniques used in games and some Blende specific things. How to work with the Blender Shader nodes How to create procedural shapes from scratch in Blender How Vector Math is working when creating Shaders. This course is ideal for individuals who are This is for all that want to go deeper in to the techniques used by Technical Artists in games to create shaders. It is particularly useful for This is for all that want to go deeper in to the techniques used by Technical Artists in games to create shaders.

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Summary

Title: Shader Magic in Blender (Ver 3.41 and above)

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 67

Number of Published Lectures: 67

Number of Curriculum Items: 68

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 68

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

The most common shader techniques used in games and some Blende specific things.

How to work with the Blender Shader nodes

How to create procedural shapes from scratch in Blender

How Vector Math is working when creating Shaders.

Who Should Attend

This is for all that want to go deeper in to the techniques used by Technical Artists in games to create shaders.

Target Audiences

This is for all that want to go deeper in to the techniques used by Technical Artists in games to create shaders.

Are you one of those that think that nodes look scary when you see a big node treeor perhaps you are just curious how the water in a game can flow so nicely around those rocks in the river and follow the stream perfectly?

Regardless the reason, here is where you will learn more on how to connect those nodes!

I will go through how to create shapes, how Vector math works (like cross and dot product, Face forward, snap,) and all the common techniques used in games like vertex painting, flowmap, parallax mapping, using a texture atlas/sprite sheet, Sobel (Edge detection on textures), trimsheet and so on.

I will also cover more “Blender specific” stuff like finding the edges on models, how to create scratches and dirt, creating procedural patterns using the radial gradient among other things.

You might wonder why in Blender and not in Unreal Engine or Unity?

Well, why not? Most things taught in the course can be used with only small adaptions in game engines as well. However, since we don’t have all the whistles and extra stuff in Blenderyou as a student are forced to learn the basics without cheating ;). I know from my own experience that it is a good path to walk if you really want to know how all things are put together.

The teacher you will get, me, has more than 10 years of experience of Blender, is educated as Technical Artist in one of the highest ranked 3D schools in the World; “The Game Assembly” and are currently working as a Technical Artist for the game “Midnight Ghost Hunt” in a Swedish Game Studio.

NB! You will however NOT learn about how to create realistic and nice materials. Those topics I cover in my course “Become a Material Guru in Blender”. This course is Shader Magic.. not material magic :D.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: The Setting

Lecture 3: The resources!!

Chapter 2: The base to create shaders

Lecture 1: Texture Coordinate

Lecture 2: Theory – A bit more about vectors

Lecture 3: Basic Masking

Lecture 4: We create a tile!

Lecture 5: We transform one tile in to many tiles.

Lecture 6: Time to clean up the tile a bit.

Lecture 7: How you create a nodegroup

Lecture 8: Using the Vector math node Length

Lecture 9: Repetition of the base

Chapter 3: The Built in Textures in Blender

Lecture 1: Brick Texture

Lecture 2: Checker Texture

Lecture 3: Environment Texture

Lecture 4: Gradient Texture

Lecture 5: IES Texture

Lecture 6: Image Texture

Lecture 7: Magic Texture

Lecture 8: Musgrave Texture

Lecture 9: Noise Texture

Lecture 10: Voronoi Texture

Lecture 11: Wave Texture

Lecture 12: White Noise Texture

Lecture 13: Explaining the dimensions on textures

Chapter 4: Create Shapes from Math

Lecture 1: Visualize math with graphs

Lecture 2: Using the Compare Node to check the value of UV

Lecture 3: How to use X and Y more than once to increase amount of possible shapes.

Lecture 4: Introducing the node Power

Lecture 5: Making a heart with only math nodes

Lecture 6: Making the spade shape from cards by using the heart shape.

Lecture 7: Lets make the rest of the shapes from a deck of cards

Lecture 8: Shape things using Vector curves

Lecture 9: How to add a second border pattern on a floor

Lecture 10: Examples using Power node a bit more

Lecture 11: Blending Mortar and tiles together on the tiles we created in the base session

Lecture 12: Setting bounds or borders on your UV and merging UV Together

Chapter 5: Practice making shapes

Lecture 1: Create a smiley

Lecture 2: Create a red cross

Lecture 3: Create a cylinder shaped pill

Lecture 4: Copy a floor tile pattern (circle shapes)

Lecture 5: Copy a floor tile pattern again (handling gray scale)

Chapter 6: Common Techniques used in games

Lecture 1: Blend textures using a second texture

Lecture 2: Blend textures together using Vertex Color

Lecture 3: Introduction to Vector Math Normal and Dot Product

Lecture 4: Using Dot Product as Fresnel effect

Lecture 5: Using Dot Product together with Normal Maps

Lecture 6: How to use the Cross Product

Lecture 7: What is the vector node Snap?

Lecture 8: How to use Face Forward

Lecture 9: Using Vector Rotate

Lecture 10: Rotating our tiles

Lecture 11: Example on creating scratches

Lecture 12: How to find edges and add dirt

Lecture 13: Take a look at Vector Bump

Lecture 14: Using Trim sheets

Lecture 15: Using Sprite Sheets

Lecture 16: Using Flow maps

Lecture 17: Learning about Parallax mapping

Lecture 18: Randomizing tiles from an atlas

Lecture 19: Finding edges on a 2D Texture

Lecture 20: Introduction to using Radial

Lecture 21: Using Radials to create polygons

Lecture 22: Using UV to create simple VFX

Lecture 23: Creating Index to tiles on a UV

Lecture 24: A deeper example of tile math

Lecture 25: How to UV Offset to create things like wooden planks

Instructors

Joakim Tornhill
A Blender material enthusiast

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