Shader Magic in Blender (Ver 3.41 and above)

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: Let's 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