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Software:Blender ·
Difficulty:Advanced

Procedural Wood Grain

Wood textures is a bit of a holy grail for procedural texturing. It’s a seriously tough nut to crack (sorry, I had to!).

Creating a convincing, procedural wood grain is something very few people manage, but it’s very much possible. By leveraging the power of Cycle’s node system we’re able to achieve a good result that is ideal for wood floors, wood paneling, and other cut wood surfaces.

*This is tutorial crosses over into the Expert realm, beyond advanced, but don’t be discouraged. Bartek is an absolute treasure-trove of technical knowledge, pay close attention and you’ll learn more every time.

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Why the disappointing anti-climactic ending?!

1 answer · asked March 31, 2019 2:48pm

David Frazier (pointoflife14)
1 answer · asked March 31, 2019 2:48pm

Why the disappointing anti-climactic ending?!

Basically everything he does from 40:00 onward is everything I needed to learn and hoped to learn from this tutorial, and missed out on because he only does an overview, which isn't sufficient to learn from. I feel like this amazing teacher and artist, which he no doubt is, missed an incredible great opportunity here in this video, it feels like he and it got lazy. The tutorial even feels like it's getting tired and just quits at the end, as does the instructor which is sad because that's where all the final magic happens. I personally am quite disappointed in this tutorial; I feel like being led on a long tough journey only to have the shepherd say, "Ok, I'm done, see y'all later. Good luck finding the destination!"

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What am I doing wrong? When I delete the first Divide node, the result is different, although I have the rest of the nodes...

1 answer · asked February 13, 2017 4:11pm

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Pather Thomas (pather)
1 answer · asked February 13, 2017 4:11pm

What am I doing wrong? When I delete the first Divide node, the result is different, although I have the rest of the nodes...

What am I doing wrong? When I delete the first Divide node, the result is different, although I have the rest of the nodes exactly the same. The only solution is to change the value in the Divide node before Modulo to 0.1. Then it gives proper result. Or I can crank up the value to 10x before and it works as well. But as for number of cuts, moving the decimal point seems like an error. Everything works just fine untile I delete the first Divide node, the one right behing Mapping node. The object has scale and rotation applied. Thank you. Screenshot of my node setup and the 3D view pane. http://i.imgur.com/9KDlOOO.png

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Wow. My head is going to explode. This opens up so much territory. Fantastic and insane all at once :)

0 answers · asked February 12, 2017 3:20am

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bloozguy
0 answers · asked February 12, 2017 3:20am

Wow. My head is going to explode. This opens up so much territory. Fantastic and insane all at once :)

Wow. My head is going to explode. This opens up so much territory. Fantastic and insane all at once :)

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wow... i got dizzy... but that was amazing... So, gor changing the location i add, for scalin i multiply and for rotate,...

0 answers · asked October 1, 2016 10:35pm

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Henrique Balduino Gonzaga (henriquebg88)
0 answers · asked October 1, 2016 10:35pm

wow... i got dizzy... but that was amazing... So, gor changing the location i add, for scalin i multiply and for rotate,...

wow... i got dizzy... but that was amazing... So, gor changing the location i add, for scalin i multiply and for rotate, would it be that complex as you said that couldn't be on the video ? Is there anywhere explaining how to do that?

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I guess you should change the "intructor" tab of this video from Kent Trammell to Bartek Skorupa don't you think ? ;)

1 answer · asked February 4, 2016 3:54pm

Yves Perera (shinsaku)
1 answer · asked February 4, 2016 3:54pm

I guess you should change the "intructor" tab of this video from Kent Trammell to Bartek Skorupa don't you think ? ;)

I guess you should change the "intructor" tab of this video from Kent Trammell to Bartek Skorupa don't you think ? ;)

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I can't get this wood to work, everything is just turning black :-/ it looks OK-ish in the preview, but my object is black.

2 answers · asked December 23, 2015 7:54pm

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killer-wolf
2 answers · asked December 23, 2015 7:54pm

I can't get this wood to work, everything is just turning black :-/ it looks OK-ish in the preview, but my object is black.

I can't get this wood to work, everything is just turning black :-/ it looks OK-ish in the preview, but my object is black.

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This isn't so much a question as a comment. For those who wondered, like I did, how Bartek Skorupa did the "variations" in...

1 answer · asked August 16, 2015 12:34am

Grady Pruitt (gradyp)
1 answer · asked August 16, 2015 12:34am

This isn't so much a question as a comment. For those who wondered, like I did, how Bartek Skorupa did the "variations" in...

This isn't so much a question as a comment. For those who wondered, like I did, how Bartek Skorupa did the "variations" in the test scene, check out his "Manipulating Texture Coordinates Like A Boss" talk from the 2014 Blender Conference: https://youtu.be/kAUmLcXhUj0

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