I was so grateful for the tips I learnt from @JamieDunbar, I revisited this tutorial. I found the bevel node technique was good, but not accurate, as wear/scratches occur in the sticking out edges, but not in the cracks. I tried using the Geometry>Pointiness node, one for edgewear, another INVERTED to add dirt in the concave crevices. I hooked it up to the "Dirt" and "Color" frames with a Color Mix node. The result is outstandingly realistic! Thanks again for showing us all those techniques and giving us the understanding to go further.

Really simple and direct way to do awesome textures. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for your service to the Blender community!

Amazing video! I have been looking for some more videos that show the process of creating realistic materials. One note I would add is that using image textures for the color node brings the whole material to another level, but this is still great for being procedural 👍

Thank God I found your channel. What I love most is you’re explaining exactly why you are adding each node and what you’re using it for. Nodes are my biggest problem. I can usually find my way to model anything but when it comes to geometry nodes I just get all confused as to what to plug into what and what node I need to use to achieve my goals

Excellent video. I like how you explain not only what to do, but why it works that way and what it’s doing. Thank you!

Probably the best explained shader node video I've found. Appreciate your work!

Beautiful! Thanks for this.

Great tutorial, one of the best I've seen on this topic so far 👍

Great Tutorial, perfect compilation and application of new information

Awesome tutorial. Looks so complex, but thanks for tip on Frames, it all starts to make sense

Thank you, Jamie! Super fantastic and helpful video! 🙂👍❤️

great video, very detailed and good pacing

Thank You very much, Jamie!

Very comprehensive tutorial. Thank you for that. Subscribed.

Great video. All the most important things are explained briefly and clearly.

It has helped me to settle all those nodes in my head finally. Good video!❤

This is really a great video I need to make materials in the 3D process but just want to optimize the software 🎉🎉

This was fantastic, thank you!

It's not often I comment on tutorials but this....this is the gold standard for Blender Tutorials!

So precise and well explained. I might finally understand procedural material in Blender.

Awesome Tutorial!!! Thank you!!!!

very clean tutorial!

Great stuff, thank you!

Thanks, this video helped alot with some of my stuff!

Great tutorial!!

The logic is really amazing, and easy to understand. Thank you for the lesson mate.

best video on this topic! thanks

Great tutorial!

Great Tut Thank You!

Great presentation Jamie 👍

great contribution. Great tutorial. You have my like. Thank you so much

Awesome video, please more tutorials on procedural materials! Loved both this one and about the realistic glass

Really opened my eyes to what I've been missing. I love how this tut is both helpful and also comes off very "Now draw the rest of the owl" xD

Thanks! This can be used as a template tool for materials in projects. And adjust node parameters accordingly.

what a amazing video.. love this

Very good, thanks bro!

Whoaa, so clear, thank you

super efficient thanks

Nice tutorial easy to follow, will definitely break the fear of procedural nodes

Pro tip, hold “alt” and RMB for a quick connection between the nodes (with node wrangler). Btw, this is one of the cleanest tutorial I’ve seen on yt, thank you man!

This was very well explained! Thank you. Maybe some more intermediate steps to understand better the origin of the masks mixes, but that we can do ourselves. Thank you!

Love the pacing bro!

Your amazing, thank you ❤

Amazing work thank u so much

Help! My graphics card cought on fire and so did my brain! Thank you very much for this awesome tutorial!!!

You earned a subscriber mate

Great tutorial Jamie

wohhhh its brilliant

love this channel

thank you for the video

I'm already using your methods.

thanks bro

Thank you for this. I can now generate geometry for cracks along a surface in geometry nodes.

Nice :D

This was way more advanced than I thought it was going to be hahaha. So many nodes and steps. Definitely NOT 3 easy steps. It still worked out in the end, but that was wayyyyy more involved than I thought it was going to be. I'm not sure I'm going to remember how to do this again on my own, but I appreciate the walkthrough.

an interesting effect during color variation as shown in 2:53 it is vary hue and luminosity, because luminosity only vary in real life on porpouse, when diving into color and how much depth you can provide is a known trick by speedpainters and pixelartist to combine hues to blueish darker colors and redish lighter colours. that way you can also keep lighten differences in colors very low because the hue involved will change the percived color by the human eye as much darker/lighter then the other

Я хоть не англичанин, но всё равно большое спасибо за такой урок. Теперь мои рендеры станут чуточку лучше)))

The next question is how to bake the metallic, roughness, and specular out so that it can be combined in a texture map for importing into UE5.

What an intro! Good work! Like & Subscription😻

Generally, I suck at Blender, but I'm starting to get a real hang of Fusion 360 (my prefered 3d program). Yet it's still so interesting to watch the ways people make 'close to professional' art with a free software. Plus, I'm coming back to it occasionally if I feel like torturing my mind with it xD (aka challenging it beyond it's capabilities)

Amazing tutorial! I just have a quick tip: The "dirt" should be an independent bsdf that should be added to the mixed metal and paint bsdfs. There are two reasons to do so. Your approach leads to dirt missing everywhere where there is no paint over the metal. In the real world there would normally be scratches in the paint and dirt all over the object. Your pattern would only occure if the object would be dirty and then scratched heavily. If intended this would need a more complex setup because the dirt would have been pushed and smeared around by the forces creating the damage in the paint. The second point is that every material should be its own bsdf. A bsdf tells blender how light interacts with a surface. It is not a color it is a material. By adding dirt color to the paint color you are not generating dirt but rather dirt colored paint. Dirt is an other material than paint (obviously :D) and has its own physical properties that can only be rendered realistically by adding an extra bsdf for it.

Someone please tell this man how to pronounce voronoi. Great tutorial though, never knew how to get good edge detection working before so this was very helpful.

Superb tutorial. Thank you for creating it, and keeping it short, much appreciated! If you wish to optimize your shader node work flow, I highly suggest using the letter "O" hot key for Previewing Node Output, rather than CTRL+SHIFT+Left Mouse. 1 key press instead of 3! I wish more people would use this efficiency... ☺

A genius

Thank you for the tutorial. My edges don't highlight after adding the bevels. I've rewatched the section over and over. Using 4.0.2

Where did you learn the use and how to connect and manipulate nodes to get your desired result?

Yes, and that can export like 3D models. For that reason, i don't like procedural materials. you can bake all teksture, but if you don't have substance painter, it has sense.

Thank you so much!. Is it possible to create Procedural Fingerprints on a model?

I thought this was great. What I’d suggest is the final step is replaced with a painted texture to the object the material is being applied to, a bit more work but you can get a more natural look that suit the objects actual surface

great tut. once i got to 9:06, my shaderball looks identical aside from the random damage, instead of it showing the metal underneath where the random damage is, it shows the darker color set on the mix color node for the paint. what are some potential causes of that? edit: nvm found it, its 4.0 causing the issue, by default "normalize" is checked in the noise texture and if you leave it on, it doesnt behave correctly. i can get the paint and metallic look, but despite having the nodes set up exactly the same, and having it in cycles. cant get the edge wear to show up. using 4.0. i assume thats the issue. im going to try again on 3.6. edit: i ended up getting the pink/purple texture bug when trying in 3.6, its always hilarious when it says it cant find a texture that isnt meant to be present in the first place haha. though its kind of annoying that rather than being able to tell blender not to look for a texture, one isnt supposed to be there, your only option is to external data, find missing files 😂 Anyways, i got it working in 4.0, the issue i didnt realize was that the edge wear doesnt show up in material preview, you have to have to view it in the rendered mode. i learned a lot from this tut.

why my bsdf has only color, metalic, roughness, IOR, alpha and normal inputs?

Very cool, it's a pity it doesn't work out to achieve the effect that dirt covers scratches

Was really struggling with the bevel section, none of my adjustments where doing anything to my object and couldn’t figure out why! So frustrating

Help! I can't seem to get the "edge wear" section to work (don't see any difference on the model at least). I've tried both AO and Bevel (It's a hard surface robot), with no effect on either. I've checked what the mix and colorramp is set to, values on either and what they are plugged into. (I'm new to blender, but I'm familiar with node system via Unreal Engine)

Not 100% sure but you can also use a math node instead of mix color node on the tear and wear, if im correct the math node takes less time to compile than the mix color node.

Congratulations, the animation of the first 3 seconds of the video, including the following motorbike are really professionally animated with Blender. But the following one is only semi-professional.

''the bump node really helps bring up cracks'' - got me laughing, let's continue with the tutorial lmao

If anyone has the issue that the random damage doesn't look the same as in this video: Make sure to disable "normalize" for that noise texture. Also if you are like me and you are bothered by the chip damage inside crevices etc, then try adding a math-substract node between the color-ramp and noise texture node of the randomdamage block. In the bottom value, attach a color attribute-color node. then select the object, go to the data tab and add a color attribute thingy to it, which you then have to select in the attribute color node. then in the viewport change it to vertex paint mode. Now you can select white as your paint and paint out all the areas you dont want to have chip damage in. reduce strength of the brush via rightclick to make it a little smoother.

btw Musgrave texture has been removed for Blender 4.1. It has been merged with Noise Texture.

hi! i just downloaded the tutorial file testing it out, and for some reason the edge wear for pointiness and bevel is just black for me, i can't figure out why even if i adjust the ramp and all. is your unit scale mm? .001?? im a total beginner anyways and finding these stuff is amazing!! thank you.. oh also its just the ambient occlusion one is working

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Love the tutorial. Just wanted to post a update on if it's not working for you. (I had to troubleshoot this) if you download the blender project provided, just grab the model and recreate everything in another project. For whatever reason, the materials don't create the same output. I think it's a version difference that causes the mess up but if you know why this worked on a new project and not the one provided please let me know.

Does anyone know where I could find information to do the same thing but with several procedural textures? I'm experimenting and moving forward but I don't think it was that complicated. What poses a problem to me is the combination of several BSDFs as he shows in his tutorial, I would like to understand why it doesn't work.

when i use the bevel node with optix cycles loads or chrashes, why?

Can i send the texture to unity ? how ?

I tried the Ambient Occlusion method because I need an edge wear effect in Eevee. It gives me more a a weathered look overall because it doesn't flow along the edges, but rather in darker areas. Is there another method that would work in Eevee?

as i am a new cg artist All this work that you have done should i practice with byhard and remember..(or)? And By learning like this daily, can i automatically design with new things with my self for my future films without watching tutorials...? Pls say

I've tried a million methods for edge wear using the bevel node, but I have never once gotten these types of results out of it. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you some great stuff here, (please can you consider being explicit about the node connections for new users? I'm trying to follow you but often not clear of which node exactly you are referring to, maybe you could zoom out further more to help with context).

Can you make this in UE5?

Yeahm that's very easy

Easy ? Not really!

Just going to say that boring in the real world is ever totally covered in grime and nicks and dirty stains either

I HAVE FOLLOWED ALL THE STEPS BUT STILL MY MODEL LOOK FLAT, CANT SEE ANY BUMP ON IT...HELP!!!

i have no sound on the video

bro you dont use a blue yeti like that. please consult the manuel! ITS NOT A SHOTGUN MIC!

Great tutorial! Something I've found useful is using map range nodes instead of black-to-white color ramps. It's just a little more versatile for edge cases, and they can be plugged into group controls: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ac-cjNVexLvPeoU.html

I thought it was "3 easy" steps :D I lost it already 3-4min into the video :) But then again, I´m total n00b with blender lol

Very nice video, just wanna point out that the blue yeti is not an end addressed microphone and it's side addressed instead. Please rotate the mic so you speak into the side with the mute button. Sorry but the audio nerd in me was screaming the entire time XD