Material Fundamentals - Procedural Textures in Blender 4.4: Design Complex Procedural Materials Using Blender 4.4's Powerful Node-Based Shader Tools

Michael Bridges

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Video Apr 2025 4hrs 10mins 1st Edition

Michael Bridges

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Full shader editor setup with Blender 4.4 to ensure smooth, beginner-friendly material creation
Real-world kitchen scene integration to contextualize and deepen procedural texturing skills
Structured node workflows and baking techniques to support optimized and reusable material logic

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Begin your journey by configuring Blender 4.4 for shader development and understanding the shader editor’s interface, key shortcuts, and value systems. The first section introduces core concepts like the Math and Mix nodes, the Texture Coordinate node, and building a first basic material from scratch. You'll also explore a screentone shader and learn to control shading through values and logic. In the next phase, dive into a fully modeled kitchen scene where you’ll bring surfaces to life using procedural techniques. Learn to manipulate bump and PBR shaders, apply randomized material attributes, and tackle challenges unique to Eevee rendering. You’ll build everything from liquid-in-glass effects to custom tile shaders with color variations and dynamic texturing logic. To close the experience, you'll focus on building reusable workflows with group nodes and learn how to bake textures for performance optimization. Each lesson compounds previous knowledge, providing a continuous progression from beginner techniques to professional application. By the end, you'll have created multiple materials, reusable node systems, and a polished scene ready for your portfolio.

Who is this book for?

This course is designed for beginners with no prior shader experience, making it ideal for those new to material creation. While a basic understanding of Blender’s interface can be helpful, it's not required. All necessary assets are included, so learners can dive straight into hands-on practice with Blender 4.4—curiosity and creativity are the only prerequisites.

What you will learn

Build procedural materials using Blender's node system
Apply math and logic to drive visual shader effects
Create tileable textures with randomized attributes
Simulate glass, liquid, and reflective surfaces
Reuse node groups across different objects and scenes
Bake high-performance textures for optimized results

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Jason May 16, 2025

Mike weaves his material magic here, looking through various different shader nodes (with a great demonstration in 3D using displacement) and how to apply them to objects in a scene (which itself is very impressive!), and even briefly looking at using them as assets and baking. Short but straight to the point, nothing to fault here.

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