Blender Texturing for Beginners - Creating Realistic Environments

Dive into a comprehensive tutorial on texturing and shaders in Blender, focusing on creating a realistic grungy brick wall for environmental design. Master shader fundamentals, explore procedural and image textures, and understand the importance of PBR textures. Learn essential techniques like UV unwrapping, PBR texture setup, and using the Node Wrangler and Poliigon addons. Discover advanced methods for breaking up repetition, image texture painting, vertex painting, and the "Color Burn Technique." Apply practical effects such as wet leak patterns, efflorescence, desaturation, and spalling to enhance realism. Conclude with a challenge and a final node setup demonstration, equipping you with the skills to create highly detailed and authentic textures in Blender.

Shader Fundamentals
Procedural Textures
Image Textures
The Importance of PBR Textures
UV Unwrapping
PBR Texture Setup
You're wrong about bumps!
Node Wrangler Addon
Poliigon Addon
Adjusting a texture
Breaking up repetition
Image texture painting
Vertex Painting
The "Color Burn Technique"
Using Decals
Wet leak patterns
A challenge
Efflorescence effect
Desaturation effect
Spalling effect
The final node setup