How do I make fudge?

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Hello, Blender community!

A little context to my question (brief, I promise) - I’m a graphic designer who wanted to make good mockups for my packaging / stationery branding designs. Simple enough, right? Trouble is… I started to love this. I couldn’t set with these things. That brings me to where I’m at now: struggling to find a path to the mountain of technical knowledge ahead of me.

I’ve been hitting in the dark for a week now and I decided to ask for some help from you lovely people.

What I want to make is a procedural texture resembling fudge for an imaginary candy-like product. (image 1)

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and use it for the shapes in image 2

The cracks I sort of can make with some sweat and tears (there’s some tuts on youtube), but it’ll only look like a cracked undefined hard material with a bad looking texture. But I want to make it procedural, so that I can shift it around on every piece. It has to look like a whole piece that’s been cut in these forms before being packaged.

Thank you for the attention, guys.

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If the overall texture properties (roughness, sss, color) are fitting it should look fine. I would model/sculpt all the small/big junks/flakes/dents and only use a texture for very fine cracks and some rougher parts. The main challenge for this look is the model itself. It seems pretty hard to achieve this look with a material. A big part of it has to be sculpted, especially for close up shots.

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I used this vanilla fudge reference image refrence pic
this is my attempt

my attempt
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sculpting / crumbs I was too lazy to try. heres the blend file of the vanilla fudge shader :fork_and_knife: vanilla fudge attempt .blend (878.0 KB)

edit: I just tried a smoother verison I think it looks better :grin: smoother vanilla fudge 2
and the blend smoother vanilla fudge attempt .blend (880.7 KB)

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Yeah that’s the challenge. But I don’t need exact fudge replica. What Bebop did below is practically the solution. Thank you for your input, I was wondering about those questions too!

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Man you’re a blender wizard. I had to contain my mind from blowing off to go back here and thank you, haha. It’s gonna take me a while to understand why you used the nodes the way you did. That’s some epic material making!

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glad I could help. I was also interested in how many types of colours of fudge there is lol :plate_with_cutlery: I had tried making a toffee shader a while ago so I just adapted that :+1: