With this article i’d like to cover some interesting and indispensable node configurations made for cycles.
Here you can find topic like realistic foliage/leafs, dupliverts random materials, realistic rusty configurations, vertex color configurations, fake glass and and many others ready to use node configurations for cycles.
- Realistic procedural leaves and foliage configuration
- Dupliverts random material
- Fake IES #1
Image from BlenderArtist thread
- Fake IES #2
http://blenderprops.altervista.org/bat-blender-architectural-tips-3-ies-fake-lights-with-cycles/
- Denoise by Negativa
- Interactive Texture / Color swap by Negativa
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?266655-Interactive-Swap-Textures
- SSS skin
- Cycles Cavity shader – Vertex color automatic dirt map
If you know some more interesting configurations/shaders, tell me in the comments and I’ll add them into the article!