WEBVTT 00:04.140 --> 00:05.820 Hello everybody and welcome back. 00:05.820 --> 00:09.370 In this lecture we're going to talk about our first materials. 00:09.390 --> 00:12.910 Now you may have something like this more complex or even simpler. 00:13.020 --> 00:15.890 It doesn't really matter which model we've got at the moment. 00:15.900 --> 00:18.240 It's a bit plain and boring. 00:18.240 --> 00:20.970 How about if we change it slightly. 00:20.970 --> 00:25.350 So we have some colors much much better straight away. 00:25.380 --> 00:29.620 Let's hop over into blender and find out some more. 00:29.810 --> 00:34.650 OK so over in the default blender file at the moment and we've got a cube in front of us. 00:34.750 --> 00:38.860 Now the first thing we're going to have to do is make sure that we can see any of the material changes 00:38.860 --> 00:40.560 we make at the moment. 00:40.570 --> 00:45.820 Our view is in what's called Solid mode which means that we're not really going to be able to see any 00:45.820 --> 00:47.980 colors that we apply to our model. 00:47.980 --> 00:50.800 So how do we go and change that so we can see what's going on. 00:51.100 --> 00:57.700 Well at the very top of the 3D view we have our toolbar and we've got these three spheres to the right 00:57.700 --> 00:58.600 hand side. 00:58.690 --> 01:03.940 We've got wireframe mode solid mode which means it's going to not have any color. 01:03.970 --> 01:10.420 Look Dev and rendered we want to be in Look Dev for the moment which is the third one along. 01:10.630 --> 01:16.900 Once that's set we're ready to make our first material on a wide in this area to the right. 01:16.900 --> 01:21.910 So with our cube selected and we know it's selected because it's got this light orange border around 01:21.910 --> 01:24.220 it I'm going to go to the materials properties. 01:24.220 --> 01:29.620 So going to go over to our properties window and if you can't see everything here I'm just going to 01:29.620 --> 01:34.510 condense this as if you're on a smaller screen or maybe you've moved these around you can use the scroll 01:34.510 --> 01:39.820 wheel to go up and down on this tab system on the left hand side. 01:39.850 --> 01:45.390 I'm gonna make that launcher again and if we go down nearly at the bottom we've got this sphere. 01:45.400 --> 01:48.040 If we go ahead hover over it says material click on it. 01:48.070 --> 01:50.290 It takes us to our material properties. 01:50.290 --> 01:55.100 So at the moment this cube has a material called material assigned to it. 01:55.120 --> 01:59.320 Now you can have more than one material assigned to an object but we're just going to stay with one 01:59.320 --> 02:00.070 for the moment. 02:00.070 --> 02:06.510 Now I can rename that material by even double clicking as the hover over actually showed all going down 02:06.510 --> 02:11.310 here and I'm going to type in red here and you can see it's updated at the top here. 02:11.320 --> 02:17.110 Now if you've got more than one material in your scene what you can do is use this dropdown to select 02:17.170 --> 02:22.750 a different material that's very useful if you've built up a repertoire of materials that you've stored 02:23.170 --> 02:28.000 or you've already set the material up and you want to apply it to a new object. 02:28.120 --> 02:28.450 Right. 02:28.450 --> 02:30.270 Let's go down a little further. 02:30.460 --> 02:38.080 If your use nodes is not blue it will be turned off for this section and most sections we're going to 02:38.080 --> 02:46.600 have to make sure use nodes is turned on you will then see we're using the Surface shader principled 02:46.640 --> 02:48.030 B SDF. 02:48.310 --> 02:51.300 Don't worry about that we'll cover a much more detail later on. 02:51.400 --> 02:56.360 But that's essentially what's producing all of this detail down here. 02:56.410 --> 03:02.980 Now this is the setup of how the light is interacting with the surface of our cube and they can get 03:02.980 --> 03:08.170 quite complex and again don't worry we'll break this down later on in the course you have a much deeper 03:08.170 --> 03:12.160 understanding for the moment though we just want to focus on the base color. 03:12.160 --> 03:17.620 So go ahead and click the colored area to the right to base color and we can pick a different color 03:17.800 --> 03:21.540 in this case is going to be a red color because that's what we selected. 03:21.550 --> 03:24.070 So on the color well I've selected a hue. 03:24.090 --> 03:25.280 That's kind of ready. 03:25.410 --> 03:28.930 Now I'm going to drag the slider down on the side here. 03:29.010 --> 03:30.360 So it's a darker red. 03:30.400 --> 03:37.420 Now you can select them in this way which is RG B were either with hue saturation and value as well 03:37.420 --> 03:39.910 so we can change the hue with this slider here. 03:40.060 --> 03:47.260 The saturation is how much color there is and the value is light and dark and that's roughly in the 03:47.260 --> 03:50.710 middle for the moment not 50 percent but we'll cover that later as well. 03:51.120 --> 03:51.440 Okay. 03:51.490 --> 03:53.620 So that's our material assigned. 03:53.620 --> 04:01.390 So let's go and add another object to our scene shift in a adding an object in a mesh object u v sphere 04:01.420 --> 04:04.670 and I'll go to press the G key and just move over here. 04:04.900 --> 04:10.030 Now because the materials properties were selected before we see the our sphere has been added but it 04:10.030 --> 04:13.300 doesn't have a default property like the default cube did. 04:13.300 --> 04:18.340 So that's something to bear in mind that things that you add don't necessarily come with the material 04:18.370 --> 04:19.930 already assigned to them. 04:19.930 --> 04:25.450 So what we can do is go to the dropdown and pick red pretty cool hey let's say we didn't warn red. 04:25.450 --> 04:26.080 What can we do. 04:26.770 --> 04:33.250 Well if we go ahead and rename it let's say yellow and then go and change the base color down here to 04:33.250 --> 04:34.830 a yellow 0. 04:35.020 --> 04:40.360 Both of them have changed and that's because both of them are sharing the same material which is really 04:40.360 --> 04:41.380 really useful. 04:41.380 --> 04:43.950 But you can get caught out like this. 04:43.960 --> 04:48.020 So what I'm going to do is I'll go controlling Z and undo both of those steps. 04:48.040 --> 04:56.620 Now notice that the moment we gave this the red material a number two appeared this number two shows 04:56.620 --> 05:01.140 us that two objects in our entire scene share that material. 05:01.380 --> 05:03.040 Now we duplicated these objects. 05:03.040 --> 05:06.250 Let's do it now let's draw a box around them duplicate them. 05:06.250 --> 05:12.550 Yes I know you created the lamp as well but we can see that the numbers now for items in our scene noticed 05:12.610 --> 05:15.250 that we've now got two objects selected. 05:15.340 --> 05:19.720 We've got one with a light orange border and one with the dark orange border. 05:19.720 --> 05:23.920 When you're looking at the properties of something you're looking at the properties of the wall the 05:23.920 --> 05:26.230 lighter orange border around it. 05:26.530 --> 05:32.600 So if we were to go ahead and click on this for it will make a single use a copy so it's taken all of 05:32.600 --> 05:39.090 the settings that we already had with that red and made a new material in this case called Red 0 0 1. 05:39.080 --> 05:48.260 Now I can call it yellow and switch out the color to something else independently of everything on here. 05:48.260 --> 05:53.360 The other thing that we could do is just create a new material silver select this other cube I can delete 05:53.420 --> 05:59.720 the red material or delete the red slot and then it will go back to the defaults or plain white color 06:00.020 --> 06:06.020 and create a new material and call it blue whatever you want here and come to our base color and make 06:06.020 --> 06:06.310 it blue. 06:06.410 --> 06:09.890 So there's a couple of different ways of changing around materials. 06:09.890 --> 06:14.780 Now I do want to show you one final thing before I crack onto your challenge and that's with something 06:14.840 --> 06:17.500 a bit more complex. 06:17.510 --> 06:19.360 Let's call it complex for the moment. 06:19.430 --> 06:22.430 So I'm going to go and open up my well that I had before. 06:22.470 --> 06:22.810 Okay. 06:22.820 --> 06:28.330 So with the well opened up here that I produced in the last lecture this is quite a complex objects. 06:28.340 --> 06:33.130 And I want to show you one of the ways that you could deal with having a mistake made. 06:33.140 --> 06:36.680 Obviously you are going to learn from this as we go. 06:36.680 --> 06:43.140 But I didn't rename or give any of these materials as I was going they're all individual objects. 06:43.160 --> 06:49.230 So it's gonna be a real pain if I have to go through whole down shift and select multiple ones of these. 06:50.180 --> 06:56.970 So selecting multiple ones and going new material calling it's going to make a pink roof tile here to 06:56.990 --> 07:01.250 really highlights and make sure and look Dev mode. 07:01.310 --> 07:07.850 But only one of those tiles is actually selected and only one of them has been changed to pink all of 07:07.850 --> 07:10.460 the others as they were before. 07:10.460 --> 07:15.980 Is there a quick way of transferring the material on one object to many others. 07:15.980 --> 07:17.240 Well yes there is. 07:17.240 --> 07:22.580 So I'm going to box select everything because these tiles are the most numerous and it'll be the most 07:22.580 --> 07:27.740 tricky things to pick with perhaps the exception that the slats holding up the roof. 07:28.110 --> 07:28.410 Okay. 07:28.430 --> 07:34.760 So with everything selected what we can do is we can have everything else inherits the properties of 07:34.760 --> 07:40.730 that one selected item by holding down control and pressing the L key. 07:41.420 --> 07:46.460 So we're going to make links to all of the other selected objects to the active selected. 07:46.970 --> 07:49.340 So if I go materials or. 07:49.340 --> 07:53.720 Okay the whole thing's gone pink I'm going to change that to something a little less offensive to my 07:53.720 --> 07:59.930 eyes because that was really bright and now we've got everything sharing one material and we can do 07:59.930 --> 08:05.300 the same if we came down to let's say these bricks down here and then I will show you one final thing 08:05.310 --> 08:10.430 so I'm going to highlight all of these bricks and noticed that the ground has also been selected but 08:10.430 --> 08:17.210 nothing else has got a hold down shift and clicked the ground twice twice because I needed to select 08:17.210 --> 08:24.500 it once to make it the act of selected and then click it again to D select it I'm going to select with 08:24.500 --> 08:31.340 the shift key held down one other brick and we can see that's become the active item now from this what 08:31.340 --> 08:37.250 I can do is I'm going to delete that pink slots and I'm gonna introduce a new material called brick 08:37.490 --> 08:43.580 and I'm going to immediately inherits I'm going to go control an L so all of these dark orange ones 08:43.670 --> 08:50.200 are going to inherits the active selected material I control an L materials. 08:50.420 --> 08:55.130 Now they all share the brick I can change them to any color I want. 08:55.130 --> 09:02.210 One final thing if I wanted to select all of these that share the same material I can simply go shift 09:02.210 --> 09:05.140 and L and select material. 09:05.240 --> 09:08.960 So there we go there's a really quick way that you can go ahead and select anything that shares the 09:08.960 --> 09:15.140 same material and now as a matter of going round the rest of your model and sorting that out which is 09:15.140 --> 09:18.060 a perfect time for your challenge. 09:18.170 --> 09:18.450 Okay. 09:18.470 --> 09:20.850 So your challenge a nice straightforward one. 09:20.900 --> 09:27.410 I'd like you to color in your model and make at least three materials and apply them to your model so 09:27.410 --> 09:32.300 it's not just one color it's gonna be at least three if you have more on your model that's absolutely 09:32.300 --> 09:33.230 fine as well. 09:33.230 --> 09:35.220 Pause the video and give that a go. 09:37.220 --> 09:38.480 Okay everybody Welcome back. 09:38.480 --> 09:40.690 Let's hop over now and color in our model. 09:41.330 --> 09:42.950 Okay everybody Welcome back. 09:42.950 --> 09:46.120 Okay so we're we're pretty far on at the moment. 09:46.160 --> 09:50.960 Couple of other things that I need to do I need to do the tiles at some point and these wooden beams 09:51.380 --> 09:58.910 so often it's easier to get this going from the word go with the correct materials so that as I duplicated 09:58.910 --> 10:00.920 them they would have the materials attached to them. 10:00.920 --> 10:03.260 So that's a learning point from us moving on. 10:03.260 --> 10:04.390 So I've got the tiles here. 10:04.400 --> 10:11.740 I think I'm going to call this pink tiles so I know that the tiles are now all sorted and I can go in 10:11.740 --> 10:14.710 and make them dark or lights or different color later on. 10:14.700 --> 10:16.420 It doesn't matter. 10:16.480 --> 10:19.990 Well let's set it now let's set to maybe a slight to light color. 10:21.200 --> 10:28.540 Okay let's select the ground delete the material slot that says tiles new material and it's gonna be 10:28.540 --> 10:35.550 called ground I'm going to make it a green for the moment a darker green. 10:35.750 --> 10:37.400 Okay so the next thing. 10:37.410 --> 10:43.530 All these wooden beams I'm going to go in and I should if we look at it from the right angle be able 10:43.530 --> 10:46.560 to just select the main beams. 10:46.650 --> 10:47.470 Excellent. 10:47.640 --> 10:52.470 So I'm gonna delete and add in a new material. 10:52.620 --> 10:53.400 What shall we call it. 10:53.430 --> 10:57.360 Let's call this beams and then we'll call the other ones slats. 10:57.360 --> 10:59.010 I don't know what the technical term is. 10:59.010 --> 11:03.090 So this is gonna be a oh not a pink a brown. 11:03.090 --> 11:09.270 So we're gonna go out there and I'm gonna have its inherits all of these other ones now I've missed 11:09.360 --> 11:10.680 a couple of extra ones. 11:10.680 --> 11:15.630 I'm going to select those making sure that this top one is the last one that's selected go control L 11:16.050 --> 11:17.760 and link in those materials. 11:17.760 --> 11:18.840 Perfect. 11:18.870 --> 11:21.750 Now the next one are these here. 11:21.810 --> 11:25.830 Now do these share the same. 11:25.860 --> 11:26.340 No. 11:26.400 --> 11:27.980 They're not linked duplicates. 11:27.990 --> 11:28.580 Okay. 11:28.590 --> 11:32.730 It's going to look at the straights on and then go up this way. 11:32.730 --> 11:35.910 I think that's going to be the easiest way of doing this. 11:35.910 --> 11:41.970 Now one thing to bear in mind is whenever you're doing a big selection like this I keep accidentally 11:41.970 --> 11:42.960 selecting the speak ones. 11:42.960 --> 11:46.050 I'm just gonna ignore it and remove it at the very end. 11:47.190 --> 11:48.200 So there's that. 11:48.210 --> 11:51.390 No I'm not going to attempt to do the other side at the moment. 11:51.450 --> 11:56.430 It's so easy for me to inadvertently select the other end. 11:56.490 --> 11:57.300 Oh here we go. 11:57.300 --> 12:02.550 I've accidentally selected one there straight away but it's very easy for me to accidentally select 12:02.550 --> 12:05.110 something and ruin my selection overall. 12:05.110 --> 12:07.000 Something to keep it as it is there. 12:07.020 --> 12:09.170 I'm gonna go into my materials slots. 12:09.180 --> 12:11.610 I don't have an active one selected at the moment. 12:11.610 --> 12:13.920 Let's make one of these active. 12:13.920 --> 12:15.030 There we go. 12:15.030 --> 12:16.970 Materials delete that. 12:17.050 --> 12:18.260 Add in a new material. 12:18.270 --> 12:20.290 I'm going to call it a slot. 12:21.090 --> 12:23.130 I'm not even sure how you spell slats. 12:23.160 --> 12:24.660 I think it's limber anyway. 12:24.810 --> 12:25.570 I'm sure one of you. 12:25.570 --> 12:30.270 Correct me if I'm wrong and I'm going to make this sort of a lighter yellow just so I can see the difference 12:30.540 --> 12:35.820 and then control an owl I'm going to inherit those material properties and then if you wanted to you 12:35.820 --> 12:40.830 could go down each one of these individually as well and add in slats. 12:41.100 --> 12:45.690 I can't be bothered to do it like that so I'm going to select all of these other ones. 12:45.840 --> 12:51.060 Plus it's a really inefficient way of doing it and control l materials. 12:51.060 --> 12:54.820 Okay so we've got all of our materials separated out here. 12:54.820 --> 12:55.820 I'm pretty happy with it. 12:55.820 --> 13:01.950 Apart from this kind of Pinky brick color so let's come in make it a darker orange. 13:01.950 --> 13:08.540 It's almost like a terracotta Well at this point I'm sure we have terracotta tiles. 13:08.550 --> 13:13.190 Instead let's call these terror terror tiles. 13:16.210 --> 13:23.040 And then what we should be able to do is select all of these with the same materials to shift an L material. 13:23.050 --> 13:23.560 There we go. 13:23.560 --> 13:25.880 I'm going to select one of these bricks down here. 13:25.960 --> 13:28.420 Control an L and inherit the materials. 13:28.420 --> 13:28.790 There we go. 13:28.790 --> 13:35.470 So we've got a terracotta tile and then I should be able to just switch this over to tiles. 13:35.470 --> 13:37.890 That's what I want to highlight everything. 13:38.020 --> 13:43.540 D select the ground select this brick and control an l think materials. 13:43.540 --> 13:49.990 Okay so that looks to me a little bit better and I can make this terracotta style tile a little bit 13:49.990 --> 13:52.060 redder and a little bit darker. 13:52.080 --> 13:56.650 Anyway I could fap around now for the rest of the day just tweaking this but it's not worth investing 13:56.650 --> 13:59.530 that much more time in this particular model. 13:59.530 --> 14:01.590 We've got a very basic well here. 14:01.630 --> 14:02.380 Does it work. 14:02.380 --> 14:03.880 Does it stand as it is. 14:03.910 --> 14:05.260 I'm happy with it. 14:05.260 --> 14:10.250 I wouldn't want to start adding more detail to it because it's just not necessary at this point in time. 14:10.330 --> 14:13.130 And that is something that you will have to hold yourself back from. 14:13.140 --> 14:15.680 It's just going to file with your model sometimes. 14:15.820 --> 14:18.020 By all means I'm not saying don't. 14:18.130 --> 14:23.980 But just be aware of the time you're investing in a single model where you could produce five or six 14:23.980 --> 14:27.480 different models and learn a lot more in the process. 14:27.490 --> 14:28.070 So there we go. 14:28.060 --> 14:33.940 There's my colored in Well I'm looking forward to seeing what ever you've made all colored in and if 14:33.940 --> 14:36.640 yours hasn't been as complex as this one. 14:36.730 --> 14:37.530 That's okay. 14:37.540 --> 14:42.900 I'd probably have gone a bit overboard with the amount of objects in this scene. 14:42.910 --> 14:45.810 So I'm really happy with how minds worked out here. 14:45.880 --> 14:51.250 I had one or two criticisms I'd probably say that I've perhaps gotten a bit carried away with making 14:51.250 --> 14:51.730 mine. 14:51.850 --> 14:56.170 But if you've done that as well you know that's absolutely fine if you're enjoying the process just 14:56.170 --> 14:57.560 go with the flow. 14:57.580 --> 15:02.350 Now we're not quite there yet but we're almost to the point where we can start sharing our models but 15:02.350 --> 15:07.960 we need to learn to render and we need to learn to light scene a little bit as well. 15:08.140 --> 15:10.600 And those will be in the next lectures. 15:10.600 --> 15:11.230 See you soon.