Ever since I started exploring procedural wood shaders, I’ve wanted to then use those to make wooden planked floors. As I mentioned in a previous post, a wooden log is cut into boards by slicing it along the long axis of the trunk, moving outwards from the center. There are several ways to cut a…
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Procedural Wood: From Oak To Maple Finale
If you’re just joining, be sure to check out the other parts of this post or this won’t make sense: Part 1 Part 2 We left off in the last post with the Maple shader looking pretty good, but it’s not quite there. As I have been known to do, I went to the local…
Procedural Wood: From Oak To Maple, Part 2
Last time we edited the scale of the wood. You might’ve noticed that in the Oak shader, the Y-coordinate was the same as X- and Z-, and now it’s 1. That’s something I realized was a mistake before, because we didn’t really want to scale the shader along the Y-axis. By making it 1, we’ll…
Procedural Wood: From Oak to Maple, Part 1
I wanted to show an example of a wood that is popularly used, but has different characteristics than Red Oak. I decided on Maple as I’ve worked on a Maple shader before and it’s different enough, yet there are enough similarities that the Oak shader is helpful. I was going to start at an earlier…
IMPORTANT: I’m Still Learning Too!
It’s been a while since my last post, and I was thinking I really need to get back into this. Fortunately, the Universe responded with a swift kick in the pants in the form of an astute reader named Ethos. Ethos has experience in woodworking, and not only asked me some great questions about the…
The Thing About Rings
It’s worth pointing out that I’m showing you one way that I’ve created wood shaders, but the Cycles nodes are so flexible that there are often many ways to accomplish the same thing. For example, in the first post in the Procedural Wood series (The Beginning), I showed how to create rings based on the equation of…
Procedural Wood Shaders in Cycles: Red Oak Finale
If you haven’t been following along, I recommend starting with part 1 and working through the parts. We’re going to pick up where we left off with the last post, and really take this wood up a level. Part 1 is here: Procedural Wood Shaders in Cycles, the Beginning Before we start, disconnect the Displacement…
Procedural Wood Shaders in Cycles, Part 4: Rays
If you haven’t read parts 1, 2, and 3, you ought to read them to get context on where we are on the wood journey! Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Last time we changed the grain pattern to match the little holes that run through the length of the wood. This time we’re going…
Procedural Wood Shaders In Cycles, Part 3
Ok, if you’ve followed the last two posts, we have a start on a wood shader, but it’s not there yet. Check out the first two parts if you haven’t yet: Procedural Wood Shaders in Cycles, the Beginning. Procedural Wood Shaders in Cycles, part 2 To make it better, we have to look at some…
Procedural Wood Shaders in Cycles, part 2
This post is the second in a series about procedural wood for Blender Cycles. I’m starting right where I left off last time, so if you haven’t read the last post, please do: Procedural Wood Shaders in Cycles, the Beginning. At the end of the last post, we finally reached a point that sort of…