Testing procedural shaders

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#1

I’ve worked for making some procedural shaders in Blender/Cycles. My objective, to improve the use and save RAM memory of my old GPU (GTX 550ti 1GB) and avoid in a possible way the hated warning “CUDA out of memory error” during my work in Blender. These are some examples of the shaders I’ve done and a scene in which I’ve applied those shaders. No one image texture was used in the scene.

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Feel free for posting your critics and comments here. I’ve been thinking about to share the shaders later, if you like it, of course.

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#2

My work can be seen here: https://choycevisuals.wordpress.com/

#3

Wow, these look legit. Hard to believe those cloth shaders don’t use any textures. Great work!

#4

Thanks steveernst117 and moony for your comments

the weaves of the cloth is easy, just simple nodes. I just worked in procedural nodes for the texture, the shader was combining the texture node with some chocofur free nodes.

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#5

You would probably have much more control over the pattern if you changed the wave type to ‘saw’ and used a couple of color-ramps following that (one that fades it from black to white to black and the next being the color).

Though another advantage is that you don’t even have to have a symmetrical pattern then.

#6

Verry nice procedural cloth shaders :wink:

#7

now I am getting hungry.

#8

now I am getting hungry.

#9

Very nice shaders. I can’t really help here as I never really produced any procedural shaders. But I would be happy to learn from you if you mind to share it :slight_smile: By the way, your renderings on your website are really good! You managed to make them all fit in your 1Gb GPU ?

#10

Ace Dragon, Benny G and matali, thanks for your comments.

#11

Yes I made all the renderings in my GTX 550ti 1GB, using 1K or 2K textures maximum and using layers for hiding the objects which I don’t need to rendering in every space (living room, bedroom, etc)

#12

Yes I made all the renderings in my GTX 550ti 1GB, using 1K or 2K textures maximum and using layers for hiding the objects which I don’t need to rendering in every space (living room, bedroom, etc)

#13

Hi. Nice procedural shaders!
What operating system do you use?
Try Blender from buildbot, you’ll save some vRAM usage:
https://builder.blender.org/download/

With this version you should be able to preview some of your procedural choosing material view.
All these are features for the next version 2.78.

#14

Whoa! Looking just amazing!