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Making Realistic PBR Materials - Part 1

By Andrew Price

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2016
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About this lesson

Explains the theory of physically based materials (albedo, roughness, reflectance, real-world value ranges) and builds a reusable node group in Cycles. Written for 2.7x so node names differ in current versions, but the principles hold.