Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook

Creating the dress material

Let's now create the clothing of the girl in our scene. We will create different kinds of materials such as the fabric for the dress, the leather for the boots, and other kinds of materials for other accessories.

Getting ready

Let's start with the dress. Select the mesh named Dress, and add a new material to it. Name it Dress and go to the Material Editor node.

How to do it...

To create the dress material, we need to perform the following steps:

1. Delete the Diffuse BSDF node. Add a Translucent BSDF node and a Velvet BSDF node. Mix them using a Mix Shader node.
2. Set the Translucent BSDF node's Color to RGB 0.66, 1, 0.45 and the Velvet BSDF node's Color to a slightly darker green such as RGB 0.58, 1, 0.34. Set the Velvet BSDF ...