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Slope and altitude based materials in Cycles
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2015
About this lesson
Shows how to blend rock and snow on terrain using surface normals for slope and position for altitude, built up from a few nodes. Twelve figures cover the node setups, diagrams and renders. Dated (2015) so node names differ in newer Blender, but the logic carries over.
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