1 00:00:05,980 --> 00:00:11,900 All right now that we've taken a look at the basics of Blender and we've created our first animation 2 00:00:12,230 --> 00:00:13,460 Let's go a. 3 00:00:13,490 --> 00:00:14,570 Let's go to level two. 4 00:00:14,570 --> 00:00:22,350 Let's take a look at some more complex things and what we're going to start with is the node Ed.. 5 00:00:22,460 --> 00:00:26,560 So what is the node editor and how do we use it and what does it do. 6 00:00:26,810 --> 00:00:31,040 Well first of all let's go ahead and make sure that we're in cycles render. 7 00:00:31,730 --> 00:00:39,820 And now we're going to delete our default cube and hitting T on the keyboard to close our tool shelf. 8 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:45,800 Let's go ahead and split the screens by going here the bottom left splitting the screen and changing 9 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:53,160 this one from the 3D view to the node editor and hitting and on our keyboard to close that. 10 00:00:53,160 --> 00:01:01,160 So right here you see that nothing is displayed because we don't have an object or a material assigned 11 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:02,810 to any object. 12 00:01:02,810 --> 00:01:04,450 So what is the node Ed.. 13 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,140 Well I'm going to show you exactly what it is and what it does. 14 00:01:08,450 --> 00:01:16,940 If we hit shift day at Ammash and add a plane let's go ahead and scale this up and bring it up above 15 00:01:16,940 --> 00:01:18,200 the floor. 16 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,100 And this is going to be our second project so make sure that you save as we go because we're going to 17 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:28,250 be using this scene from one Tauriel to the next and building upon it and learning some pretty cool 18 00:01:28,250 --> 00:01:29,470 things. 19 00:01:29,660 --> 00:01:32,010 Now go into the material tab over here. 20 00:01:32,210 --> 00:01:38,270 Let's go ahead and click new and you will see right away in a note editor what happens. 21 00:01:38,420 --> 00:01:42,430 So you can see that it's added what are called nodes. 22 00:01:42,650 --> 00:01:47,550 Right here we have the diffuse node which is the same as what we have right here. 23 00:01:47,870 --> 00:01:50,650 And we have the material output node. 24 00:01:51,050 --> 00:01:58,220 So let's rename this material very fast to would underscore floor. 25 00:01:59,230 --> 00:02:08,270 And now the node Ed. is basically a way to manipulate and add more interesting details and things to 26 00:02:08,270 --> 00:02:13,430 our materials we could add glares we could add contrast brightness. 27 00:02:13,430 --> 00:02:20,930 We could composite it's basically a compositor that will add or change the effect of a lot of your scenes. 28 00:02:20,930 --> 00:02:26,360 It's a really awesome tool and thing to be using. 29 00:02:26,540 --> 00:02:31,160 It might look overwhelming at first but trust me it is very very useful. 30 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:33,460 Now again the compositor right here. 31 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:39,470 Let's go over a little bit of the different buttons and things that we have in this composite scene 32 00:02:40,550 --> 00:02:48,320 so you can see that right now we are on the object tab and the material hence the object that we have 33 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:55,220 selected and the material so we're on the material nodes or composite or of the object. 34 00:02:55,220 --> 00:03:00,820 Now as you can see right here it's basically displaying exactly what we have here. 35 00:03:00,860 --> 00:03:06,440 As I said a diffuse node which is right here to move any node. 36 00:03:06,470 --> 00:03:13,790 All you have to do is hit G on the keyboard to move it and you could right click to select the same 37 00:03:13,790 --> 00:03:15,890 thing as an object mode. 38 00:03:16,370 --> 00:03:22,120 You can hit the x key to delete a node and control Z to undo that. 39 00:03:22,130 --> 00:03:29,180 Now again nodes are really cool because way allows for you to do of course if we were to just set up 40 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:35,180 a simple scene with just a plain and a diffused material we wouldn't need to use the notes editor to 41 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:36,510 do that. 42 00:03:36,590 --> 00:03:44,150 Now as you can see if I delete this diffuse node by selecting it and heading X we now don't have a diffused 43 00:03:44,150 --> 00:03:54,800 node to our material now we could go here and select the fuse or we could hit shift day and add in a 44 00:03:54,800 --> 00:04:03,170 shader and it's like diffuse and then connected by left click and dragging it to the surface output 45 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:08,410 right here are the surface input and you could see that it reflects that change over here. 46 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:14,180 So again if you were to use just a simple plane with the diffused or with a diffuse shader you would 47 00:04:14,180 --> 00:04:16,820 not need the note editor to go in here and do that. 48 00:04:16,820 --> 00:04:18,450 You could just add it through here. 49 00:04:18,740 --> 00:04:25,730 But when you start to add a lot of things such as secularity and a glare and some contrast and some 50 00:04:25,970 --> 00:04:33,110 color saturation and all this other foot you know all these other editing or extra compositing on top 51 00:04:33,460 --> 00:04:39,230 you would definitely need a note editor because it will be displayed here and you could sometimes they 52 00:04:39,230 --> 00:04:46,850 get you have over 50 or 100 nodes here you can have just for one single thing and having that here would 53 00:04:46,850 --> 00:04:50,930 be way overwhelming so the note editor is awesome for that. 54 00:04:50,930 --> 00:04:52,490 Let's take a look at a couple other things. 55 00:04:52,490 --> 00:04:57,230 So again shift a gives you a menu to add different things you can see that all the shaders that we had 56 00:04:57,230 --> 00:05:03,050 over there to the right on here as well we could add like that converters we could add all kinds of 57 00:05:03,050 --> 00:05:09,910 things colors you know wheels brightness contrast and all kinds of different things to change the way 58 00:05:10,210 --> 00:05:15,360 our material looks and add more realism and more detail to it. 59 00:05:15,610 --> 00:05:21,170 Let's actually go ahead and do something right now to show you exactly what I mean. 60 00:05:21,730 --> 00:05:24,510 Let's go ahead and add that texture that we had and for our offense. 61 00:05:24,530 --> 00:05:30,480 But on this floor right here as we are going to be needing a wood floor for our next project anyways. 62 00:05:30,670 --> 00:05:36,590 Now I could go here like I did before and go to image texture and select it from there. 63 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:38,810 But let's do it from the note editor. 64 00:05:38,830 --> 00:05:40,810 So go ahead and hit shift day. 65 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,090 Or you also have the menu down here. 66 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:52,710 But let's go ahead and hit shift day add shader or actually add input and we're going to add a nodes 67 00:05:52,750 --> 00:05:54,490 under color texture. 68 00:05:54,490 --> 00:05:55,640 There we go. 69 00:05:56,110 --> 00:06:01,700 I came and find the menu myself under texture we had image texture. 70 00:06:02,860 --> 00:06:09,580 Now collect connect the color of the image texture to the color of the diffuse. 71 00:06:09,580 --> 00:06:12,490 Now you can see that added it here as well. 72 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:18,630 All we have to do now is go to open and find our image texture. 73 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:27,920 And open that image texture and now you can see that we have it loaded here and that is awesome. 74 00:06:27,980 --> 00:06:33,620 If we go over here to the rendered viewport mode you can see that nothing's happening because we haven't 75 00:06:33,710 --> 00:06:35,460 unwrapped our plane yet. 76 00:06:35,660 --> 00:06:42,160 So if I go hit 7 to go into top view go down here and go to Edit mode. 77 00:06:43,340 --> 00:06:48,200 And let me actually go to solid hit you and unwrap this. 78 00:06:48,350 --> 00:06:53,960 And if we go to the U-V image editor just to show you what just happened you can see that unwrapped 79 00:06:53,960 --> 00:07:00,230 right here as well and just go down here and select your image texture that we have here so you can 80 00:07:00,230 --> 00:07:02,540 see exactly how it looks. 81 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:11,510 Now going back to object mode and two rendered mode you can see that our texture is on our plane and 82 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:17,900 if we go to the node editor you can see that it's here as well and it's displayed here as well. 83 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:22,560 Just like it would if we had selected it from here. 84 00:07:22,730 --> 00:07:28,660 Now that is awesome because now what we're going to do with the node out there. 85 00:07:28,790 --> 00:07:36,320 Let's get a little fancier because with our fence we had added just a plain image texture and that's 86 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:37,140 great. 87 00:07:37,430 --> 00:07:45,230 But let's do something really cool with the note editor and adding more detail and that's going to be 88 00:07:45,230 --> 00:07:46,880 called a bump map. 89 00:07:46,870 --> 00:07:49,930 So wait until you see what a bump map does. 90 00:07:49,940 --> 00:07:55,520 I think you're going to be super excited when you realize how much detail you can get with just adding 91 00:07:55,580 --> 00:07:58,470 a couple of tweaks in the node Ed.. 92 00:07:58,610 --> 00:08:00,620 All right I'll see you in the next tutorial. 93 00:08:00,620 --> 00:08:01,100 Take care. 94 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:02,250 See you then. 95 00:08:02,810 --> 00:08:06,700 All right here's our little quote for the end of this tutorial. 96 00:08:06,710 --> 00:08:12,280 Don't be so scared of making a mistake that you make the mistake of not living at all. 97 00:08:12,350 --> 00:08:19,130 One shouldn't see mistakes as a step backwards but rather as a stepping stone to your fullest potential. 98 00:08:19,130 --> 00:08:23,650 So take a step forward and let those mistakes propel you to greater heights. 99 00:08:23,690 --> 00:08:26,310 Previously not imagined. 100 00:08:26,660 --> 00:08:27,220 All right. 101 00:08:27,230 --> 00:08:28,400 Don't be afraid of mistakes. 102 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:29,000 Go for it. 103 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,500 You guys see in the next tutorial.