Hi everyone! Let me know what you think about Smartify Nodes, AND if you want me to create more tutorials for it in the future! :)

@homemade_vancity

10 ай бұрын

Purchased this add-on a week or so ago .. have been playing with it some and just now diving into creating my own smart materials. Really powerful little tool and I'm sure I'm going to get a lot out of it. Would love to see you do a tutorial using it with some hard surface texturing .. like UV unwrapping a space ship, or something similar, and using 'sharp' edges to define different areas to apply multiple shaders. I know that sounds like a long one .... but would be cool for people that struggle with the task.

@TheCGEssentials

10 ай бұрын

This is something I'd like to dive into a bit more - I was actually pretty overwhelmed by the whole thing at first, but once you wrap your mind around the initial principles you start to see the power of the add-on. Honestly I think there's so much in this add-on it's like a multiple part tutorial series to get to all the good stuff

@homemade_vancity

10 ай бұрын

@@TheCGEssentials Couldn't agree more ... It's an add-on that could easily be worth 2x the price, was so happy to nab it when I first saw it pop up. It basically takes all the best set-ups from several top rated add-ons and puts them into one single package. I'm going to work with it on terrains, ships and other geometries to see how far it can get pushed or where it has limits.

@shubhamkumar-sc5eo

10 ай бұрын

Very helpful. Please make some more videos on this...

@atle6616

10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Yes please more videos about this :)

Excellent - would love to see more on this addon, have only used it a little but it looks super useful. Thanks!

Just a precision, at 10:40 no need to input vector into the AO mask, but the reason the AO is this noisy, is that blender has materials by default on "Bump" instead of "displacement only", in the material settings. So AO gets super affected by the height texture via this bump setting. With the smart shader you have a slider to set your bump from 0% to 100%, usually 20% looks good, while in blender you just have this toggle with/or/without bump in the material settings.

Was waiting for that one. 🔥 hehe

Wohohoho-whats up guysssss

Great tutorial, please make more on textures with Geo nodes.

Awesome. I just purchased this add-on.

@TheCGEssentials

10 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

@TonyG718

10 ай бұрын

Yes please do another in depth review/preview whenever you have the free time, The PDF and options are overwhelming, lol.

@TheCGEssentials

10 ай бұрын

Lol - I agree - it's a lot - that's part of why I recommend you start by building your own Smart Shader first so you understand what the nodes do. Really powerful, but figuring out where to start can be...challenging

10 ай бұрын

@@TheCGEssentialsNice feedback, I will find ways to ease the on-boarding.

Im buyng it..

Hello - whats the best way of creating 2d plans / sections (like make 2d) in blender? are there add ons available. thanks

Awesome tutorial - Question...Does this seem to be more user friendly and more powerful than PBRPainter? I am currently using it, but am looking for an easier way to add moss and edges etc. Thanks, love this channel!

I want to know if you can add a mask to one object with more than one material on it. Love your videos.😊

Looks good, but is the compiling very slow, is that a problem with this addon? Or is it because of your hardware or something?

😎 cool

@TheCGEssentials

10 ай бұрын

Agreed :)

thank you, already bought it, pretty good! :) I have a question, maybe you know all these addons with mixed materials after adding them to the library of assets, also add all of their groups of nodes automatically at first it seemed very convinient, but now my list of node groups so bloated and when searching for AO/Grunge/Gradient/Mix I get a whole list, although I wanted just a standard one is there any way manually hide and show what will be shown in Search of node groups?

@TheCGEssentials

10 ай бұрын

This I don't know unfortunately

10 ай бұрын

Yes, any data you bring to a blender file will bring along all the connected data, so a mesh will bring the armature but also all the curves used in the armature ect.. So smart materials will always bring any node gorup they used. But in the asset browser at the top, you can use "append" or "append (reuse)" instead of "follow pref", meaning any node group already present will get re-used, or duplicated (.001) if using "append" only. In any case you can swap groups & cleanup anything, so it's easy to keep a blend file healthy.

Where can I get the material totem? The 3d model that you test materials

@TheCGEssentials

10 ай бұрын

I think there's actually one in the bonus section of this add-on in the asset browser

10 ай бұрын

@@TheCGEssentials the shader ball ? yes it's in the bonus section @thosemiller I actually modeled it by hand as the free ones always have issues haha.

How to add new texture sets, new materials?

Does anybody elsees blender lag while using this addon?

Hehe

@TheCGEssentials

10 ай бұрын

:)

good addon But I think mask tools addon is better

@TheCGEssentials

10 ай бұрын

I'll have to give that one a try

@lokyloky3420

10 ай бұрын

what do you think about mask tools compared to Fluent : Materializer?

@aalmutairi6604

10 ай бұрын

@@TheCGEssentials yes I agree with you

@aalmutairi6604

10 ай бұрын

@@lokyloky3420 still the better for me

10 ай бұрын

I discovered mask tool a bit late as a customer, but to me it was like fluent, not what i was after, as a customer still, not a library of pre made mats & effects. I still haven't bought so I'm really curious if there's any highlights in mask tool you could point to me ?

That red green shit doesn’t work whatsoever lmao why not just white and black