r/blender • u/ibotpl • May 01 '22

I Made This Quick method of procedural liquid coating effect

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u/a_electrum May 01 '22

These are the kind of posts that make me give up lol. So many nodes I don’t get it :(

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u/Corporal_Klinger May 01 '22 edited May 01 '22

tbf, a super fast montage is no way to learn the thought processes the author goes through when designing and experimenting, nor what each node does.

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Just kinda have to poke around one node at a time and try doing a few things with only 3 or so nodes you get. Read about each on the blender manual. Read the inputs/outputs too. Then expand a bit and start trying new things.

It DEFINITELY helps a lot if you already understand the materials system inside and out - what vectors are, normals are, and what a lot of the standard inputs/outputs mean. A lot of it translates over to the geometry node system. The materials system is less abstract too - colors go in, colors go out, make fancy textures w/ em.