Learning Shader Nodes

[shannonz]

this thread was really useful. look at what @RobertT does to get certain material effects. Go through a bunch of his examples, and some things just start “clicking”.

My 100+ Free Cycles Procedural Textures - Blend Files and/or Settings Included

In this thread I’m going to share a few of my many Cycles procedural texture experiments and settings. Perhaps you will find some of these interesting and/or useful If you do, please feel free to use or adapt however you wish. Unless otherwise noted, these images are drawn on a simple large square plane facing the camera. A secondary plane, outside of the camera’s view (top left) serves as the illumination source with emit values usually ranging 1.0 to 3.0. Images here are no…