All 80+ Blender material nodes explained in under 30 minutes

Holy mother of corrupted normals, someone actually did it

Table of Contents Input Nodes Ambient Occlusion 1:22 Attribute 1:51 Camera Data 2:08 Fresnel 2:24 Geometry 2:35 Hair Info 2:55 Layer Weight 3:07 Light Path 3:20 Object Info 4:27 Particle info 4:49 RGB 5:07 Tangent 5:12 ---- See Anisotropic BSDF 7:31 Texture Coordinate 5:28 UV Map 6:32 Value 6:38 Wireframe 6:43 Material Output 6:48 Shader Nodes Add Shader 7:20 Anisotropic BSDF 7:31 ---- See Tangient 5:12 Diffuse BSDF 7:47 ---- What is a BSDF? ---- See Principled BSDF 11:00 Emission 8:26 Glass BSDF 8:38 Hair BDSM 9:39 ---- See Principled Hair BSDF 12:53 Holdout 9:55 ---- Invisible Susan Mix Shader 10:31 Principled BSDF 11:00 ************ Principled Hair BSDF 12:53 Principled Volume 13:48 Refraction BSDF 13:52 Subsurface Scattering 14:04 Toon BSDF 14:15 Translucent BSDF 14:25 Transparent BSDF 14:30 Velvet BSDF 14:35 Volume Absorption & Volume Scatter 14:42 Texture Nodes Brick Texture 14:48 Checker Texture 15:01 Environment Texture 15:05 Gradient Texture 15:17 ---- See Math 25:42 IES Texture 15:35 Image Texture 15:51 ************ Magic Texture 16:46 Musgrave Texture 16:55 Noise Texture 17:07 Sky Texture 17:19 Voronoi Texture 17:28 Wave Texture 17:40 White Noise Texture 17:52 Color Nodes Bright/Contrast 18:02 Gamma 18:22 Hue Saturation Value 18:32 ---- Who? Invert 18:58 Mix RGB 19:02 Light Falloff 19:31 ---- See ColorRamp 23:38 RGB Curves 20:24 Vector Nodes Bump 20:34 Vector Curves 20:57 Displacement 21:31 Mapping 22:31 Converter Nodes Black Body 23:00 Clamp 23:10 ColorRamp 23:38 ************ Separate & Combine 24:31 ---- Separate RGB & Combine RGB 24:35 ---- Separate XYZ & Combine XYZ 24:55 ---- Separate HSV & Combine HSV 25:09 Map Range 25:18 Math 25:42 RGB to BW 26:23 Shader to RGB 26:31 ---- See ColorRamp 23:38 Vector Math 26:59 ---- See Math 25:42 Wavelength 27:15 Misc Nodes Script 27:28 Make Group 27:34 Layout 28:03 ---- Frame 28:05 ---- Reroute 28:15 Leave a comment if a timestamp is broken or my labeling can be more specific and I'll change it. I'm not busy.

Thank god for you.

Someone had to do it, Timestamps: 1:22 Ambient Occlusion 1:50 Attribute 2:10 Camera Data 2:12 View Vector 2:16 View Z-Depth 2:20 View Distance 2:24 Prenell 2:36 Geometry 2:56 Hair Info 3:07 Layer Weight 3:20 Light Path 4:28 Object Info 5:09 RGB 5:12 Tangent 5:31 Texture Coordinate 6:33 UV Map 6:38 Value 6:43 Wireframe 6:50 Material Output 7:20 Add Shader 7:32 Anisotropic BSDF 7:50 Diffuse BSDF 8:31 Emissive(idk) 8:42 Glass 9:40 Hair 9:57 Holdout 10:31 Mix 11:02 Principled BSDF (Very important) 12:53 Principled Hair BSDF 13:49 Principled Volume 13:53 Refraction BSDF 14:05 Subsurface Scattering 14:16 Tune BSDF 14:25 Translucent 14:32 Transparent BSDF 14:37 Velvet BSDF 14:43 Volume Absorption/Scatter 14:48 Brick Texture 15:01 Checkered Texture 15:07 Environment Texture 15:17 Gradient Texture 15:35 IES Texture 15:53 Image Texture 16:49 Magic Texture 16:55 Musgrave Texture 17:08 Noise Texture 17:20 Sky Texture 17:29 Voronoi Texture 17:41 Wave Texture 17:53 White Noise Texture 18:01 Brightness/Contrast 18:35 Hue Saturation Value 18:59 Invert 19:03 Mix RGB 19:32 Light Falloff 20:26 RGB Curves 20:38 Bump 20:58 Vector Curves 21:32 Displacement 22:32 Mapping 23:02 BlackBody 23:12 Clamp 23:40 Color Ramp 24:32 Separate/Combine 25:20 Map Range 25:49 Math 26:26 RGB To BW 27:00 Vector Math 27:16 Wavelength 28:07 Frame. After that he used something to connect the nodes at a joint and I’m not sure what that was since the video cuts to after.

THIS VIDEO SHOULD BE promoted to youtube home page of everyone who uses blender! That would be a good working algorithm

He’s not the hero that blender deserves, but he’s the one that it needs

3yrs later and this videos aged so well. Still one of the best shader node guides. Big ups to your brother 🖤

Was literally thinking "I wonder if somebody has a guide or pdf explaining all the nodes?" Way to do it my guy, thank you.

“Because that’s what heroes do”

Now that I watched this, while I'm not gonna remember exactly what each node does, I will know that there has to be a node or a combination of nodes that can do exactly what I want to achieve in Blender when working on a project, and every time I'm gonna remember that, I'm gonna come back to this video and watch through it hoping to see that one specific part that I need. Plus, now that I know more about each node, it's gonna be way easier to search for solutions on Google, because I'm actually gonna be able to search things like "How to use the fresnel node" instead of "How can I make object glossy and reflective". HUGE thanks for making this video!!!

'didn't get much views' - 1.3M

I would actually love if each node done separately in a video (80+ videos) and how to use them effectively with examples. And how they effect others like a PROPER case study.

Someone had to do it: THANK YOU 3000

OMG YES at last someone did this! I know this takes a lot of effort and was looking for someone to do all the material nodes tutorial but no one actually did it...thank u soooooo much

I’ve been using blender since 2016, but never bothered to look fully into the nodes. I watched the entire video and now my skill level went up a lot, this helped me a ton

After this video i definitely gained more confidence in exploring shading and all of its possibilities. And I have a video which I can always come back to when I am experimenting .Truly thank you

Finally I can at least try and make my own node combinations rather than copy what other people do. Hats off to you. I regret not having found this sooner.

"I realize that something like this might not get a lot of views." 50k in 2 days.

Thank you so much man, really helpful for a beginner like me, I'm familiar with all these terms like anisotropy, roughness, normal maps cause I'm a tech and science enthusiast but didn't know how they function on the nodes🙏