Chapter 24Natural Surfaces
In the previous tutorials you learned how to paint realistic organic surfaces using painting software such as Photoshop. Now we’re going to take a look at how to create natural surfaces with procedural textures and nodes. You can achieve the same results with the layer system, but nodes are more flexible. You may want to duplicate the results with the layer system in order to practice with it as well.
Natural Surfaces Tutorial 1: An Ocean
In our first tutorial we are going to create water. There are several things that you need to keep in mind while creating water. Think about the type of water you would like to create; for example, is it a pond, a river, or an ocean? All of these will look different since the surrounding ...
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