Comments on: Introduction to Texture Nodes

By: Terry Chong

Terry Chong — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:52:36 +0000

awesome!!!! Great tutorial….really learn so much from it….keep going Andrew…i’m ur big supporter…Thanks~~~

By: grumpyestonian

grumpyestonian — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:58:07 +0000

, the bottom edges of the bricks reflect light and not the top edges. The sides, however, behave correctly. In the example, the right side edges catch light, as you would expect. Any idea why this is happening?

Ralph- Read some of the other comments for a solution.

By: grumpyestonian

grumpyestonian — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:50:43 +0000

Nice tutorial. My first time using nodes. For some reason, when I render, the top and bottom edges of the bricks don’t reflect light right. For example, if I place the light to the top right of the plane

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:00:47 +0000

When I created all the nodes, they were available in the output dropdown for the first texture which was the one the nodes were originally created for. However, when I added the next texture, there was no output dropdown button.

I was able to do everything, but only if I first created a separate texture for each set of nodes. Then I got the output dropdown and it worked.

It appears that each texture has its own set of nodes which are not common to all the textures.

By: Astapov

Astapov — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:38:35 +0000

wait… its ether that or you convert it to a normal then dump it on top and zero out your blue chanel to the neutral blue on the noise bump.

By: Astapov

Astapov — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:32:21 +0000

Now if you dump your brick noise texture into the blue chanel of the normal map you would be spot on .

By: Ammon

Ammon — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:14:30 +0000

i cant get the last part – i can’t find where the map input or drop down menu is – PLZ help. thx if you do

By: Scope

Scope — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:03:19 +0000

Nice, well done tut.
I was lost until I reread and saw this…
“… Click it to switch to the Texturing Node system.”

About time I got into this.

By: Ron Harris

Ron Harris — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:50:52 +0000

For those of us who are more algorhitmically oriented, here is my take.

1. Create a plane
2. Add a new material to it
3. Set texturing mode to nodes
4. Enter node editor
5. Select an input pattern
6. Create a group from the pattern. Name the group.
7. Duplicate the pattern and output node N times.
8. Rename each output node according to usage
9. Add additional nodes as input to existing nodes according to usage.
10. Add each node texture to the plane’s material and adjust map input settings as required.
11. Render.

Comment: This is probably not the best way to make photorealistic brick.

Question: Is there a way to see the texture on the object in the 3D View without taking other steps to convert it to a non-nodes texture?

By: ZukO

ZukO — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:05:45 +0000

neato. now i want to learn more about how all of this works.