Part 4: Blender Masterclass - Texturing | Highlights and Annotations by Gistr.

This segment provides a detailed explanation of various material properties in Blender, such as base color, metallic, roughness, index of refraction, subsurface scattering, and anisotropy. Each property is defined and its effect on the material's appearance is demonstrated, offering a comprehensive understanding of material settings. This segment introduces the Decal Machine add-on for Blender and demonstrates its use in adding decals to a 3D model. The tutorial covers installation, importing a decal image, and using the add-on's tools to position, scale, rotate, and project the decal onto the model's surface. This segment explores the use of online texture resources like textures.com and polyhaven.com for acquiring pre-made textures. It explains the concept of texture maps (albedo, height, normal, roughness, metallic, ambient occlusion) and their roles in defining surface attributes, guiding viewers on how to download and utilize these maps effectively in their projects. This Blender tutorial demonstrates procedural and image-based texturing techniques for a kettlebell model. It covers material properties (base color, metallic, roughness, etc.), UV unwrapping, using texture maps from textures.com (or free alternatives), and applying a decal using the Decal Master add-on. The tutorial emphasizes understanding material nodes and color spaces for optimal results. This segment clearly explains the crucial role of UV maps in 3D texturing. It defines UV maps as a method to unwrap 3D surfaces for flat 2D image application, emphasizing the necessity of UV mapping before applying textures to a 3D object. The distinction between "texture" and "material" is also clarified. This segment delves into the practical application of procedural texturing using Blender's node editor. It demonstrates the use of noise textures, color ramps, and other nodes to create and manipulate textures, providing a hands-on guide to building basic procedural textures. The difference between color and non-color data inputs is also explained. This segment explains the importance of color spaces (like sRGB and Non-Color Data) when working with different texture types in Blender. It highlights how incorrect color space settings can lead to artifacts, particularly with normal maps, and demonstrates how to correctly set color spaces for optimal results.This segment focuses on the proper setup and use of normal maps and ambient occlusion (AO) within a Blender material. It explains the necessary node setup for normal maps to correctly interpret normal data and shows how to incorporate AO using a mix node set to multiply to subtly darken crevices in the model. This segment focuses on the importance of UV unwrapping in achieving seamless textures. It explains the concept of seams and demonstrates the process of marking seams on a 3D model in Blender's edit mode, followed by using the UV editor to unwrap the model, ensuring that the textures are applied realistically without stretching or distortions.This segment demonstrates the process of unwrapping a 3D model's surface for texture application, using minimum stretch algorithm and checking for stretching using a UV grid. It also shows how to adjust texture frequency using mapping nodes within the material's principled BSDF setup.