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This tutorial shows how to set up basic metal materials using the Cycles Render. It shows how to set up and light a simple scene and how to mix shaders to make silvery and golden materials.
Simply changing the default Diffuse shader to the Glossy shader gives a highly reflective metal appearance but it can produce very dark areas. These areas can be given a diffuse colour by mixing the output from the Glossy shader with output from a Diffuse shader. The node editor is used to link the processes together.
The file created in the tutorial can be downloaded from my website —
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15 responses to “Blender Materials Tutorial – Making Simple Metal Materials Using the Cycles Render (Chrome, Gold)”
Thanks a lot! As usual it was very interesting and helpful!
The problem is none of these practices are physically accurate. Even a beginner can attach a fresnel node to the factor, which is a step in the right direction even though it isn't totally accurate.
Very nice tutorial. Once again, Thank You for sharing your knowledge.
Super impressive, the way you can talk for a whole tutorial, on technical stuff, without once umm-ing or ah-ing.
Just to add, if you want two shaders to have the same color, having set the color for one shader, you can copy/paste that color to the other. Just hover over the color swatch in the first shader, CTRL-C (CMD-C on Mac), hover over the other shader's color swatch and CTRL-V (CMD-V on Mac). That's in version 2.77. Not sure if that feature was available at the time you made this tutorial.
Thanks again. Quickly becoming a big fan of your channel.
10/10 ign would watch again
Aprox at 6.25 in the video you show how to deal with the dark areas using the node editor. Those dark ares is caused by the smooth shading function isnt it?
thank you….. that really helped!!! you guys are awesome
Thanks ! Helped really much! There's surprisingly little tutorials on making relfective metal with Cycles Renderer.
Ian, thats really great tutorial. It is easy to understand, it's not confusing and the way you are explaining things here, is very agreable. Thanks!
What is Blender? Do you make intros with it? Or animations?
The step by step is very helpful.
Very nice tutorial especially for me as I am knew to Blender – thanks
AWESOME! Unlike most, you didn't zoom through everything assuming people knew what you were doing, in which case they wouldn't need a tutorial would they? THANK YOU for taking the time to make this!!
Good grief. This video is all business. Like a boss. Excellent video, no fluff. Straight to the point. I learned multiple things by just watching this short tutorial. Much faster and better results than many tutorials I've seen. I'm still new to Blender and this solved most of the problems I had when I was working on a project that had a similar setting last night.
Many Thanks !
Thanks for posting,very good tut as usual.