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No, you'd need to convert it to geometry first.

As the tutorial progresses, you can see what each node does. You could also take the time to experiment and play to see the changes and how they affect the node tree. That's a good way to learn. The goal of this was of course to create a specific material. Otherwise, I'd have given it a different title. There are hundreds of Blender tutorials on CZcams focusing on individual nodes if that is the type of support you are seeking.

I don't follow the question as I don't understand what you mean by light seem.

@@blenderbitesize I mean reflection

Export where and for what? Reflections tend to be based on the surfaces the object sit on or near, and the lighting in the scene so I'm not sure you can export a reflection.

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Glad you are liking them. Not long now until I have some updated ones for 4.2

Glad it helped.

Yes, there have been lots of changes in 4.1 and 4.2 which I plan to cover with a new set of tutorials in the near future.

After watching again, please could you let me know the timecode of where your struggling.

@@blenderbitesize at 1:00 you say other color and i have watched the video like 20 times tryna figure out where the other color is

@@blenderbitesize also where is the clear coat option in 4.2 I can't find it. Seems to be alil different

​@@blenderbitesize the principle bsdf won't pop up

On the colour ramp, there are two colours. One at either end. Once you have entered the values for the first, select the other.

I don't understand. You still need to animate it somehow. Could you clarify?

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You're welcome. Glad to hear what these materials are being used for.

I just smashed the love button after reading your comment!

Thanks for the kind feedback.

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. As with all of my videos, they are my way of doing things. I cant always guarantee that they are the best way or the way someone else would have done it. Over the years I've noticed that there are often more than one way to do things with blender so if you find a different way that works better for you, run with it. These are mostly a spring board to encourage exploration.

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. As with all of my videos, they are my way of achieving something. I don't claim they are the right way, the best way, or even the only way. Just a record of how I did something. If there are other ways that work, that's awesome. I just found that this combination of nodes gave me the look that I needed.

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.

That's great to hear, thank you.

That's wonderful to hear, thanks for your positive feedback.

Thanks for the awesome feedback. Appreciate it!

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I literally show that at 4:45 in this video.

@@blenderbitesize My apologizes

No worries.

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I can certainly do that.

In short, it's math and masking.

I understand masking but you need a circle to mask, in the future how do I figure out which node or math function to use if I want to do something custom which is not available on CZcams? How will I approach it? ( I'm bad at math lol)

@@technoober8352 Press CTRL+SHIFT+LMB on each node to get a preview of what it is doing (in shading view with viewport shading enabled). If you start at the left and work your way along, you can see what each node does to the previous nodes. In this case, the Voronoi Texture is creating "cells" with shading from black through grey to white. The math node (LESS THAN) is then calculating the values within each cell and if the colour value within a cell is less than 1 (white) then it will output a value of 0 (black). If the value is 1 (white) then it will output a value of 1 (white). This black and white output from the math node (LESS THAN) creates the white circles on a black background and is then used as a mask (FAC input) within a mix shader. The top BSDF input in the mix shader will use the black areas of the mask and the bottom BSDF input in the mix shader will use the white areas from the mask. Hope this helps.

If you watch my confetti tutorial, I provide one idea there.

In all honesty, I didn't think you could use a mix node because they are for combing nodes whereas the mix shader will take the output from bsdf nodes and mix.

I knew the noise texture had been removed but will be looking at alternatives when I update these for 4.2

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What version of Blender are you using?

Thanks for sharing that. This changed in blender 4.

I tend not to use eevee in Blender 3 but hope to offer advice for future videos relating to blender 4.2

@@blenderbitesize it's fantastic for tires in cycles 4.2...eevee? Yikes 😆

Thanks for the kind feedback. I have taught various creative practices for a couple of decades so it was nice to hear it comes across well.

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That would be a different process. I'll add it to the list of videos to do.

Lots of things in life could be easier, for sure.

Are you using the cycles render engine?

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I think we've already resolved this via email.

Yes, thank you again!

@@GuillaumeTouillet You're welcome.

Change is inevitable, unfortunately. Much like new versions of Blender.

@@blenderbitesize lmaooo i have a old tv.. it even has those old tv lines sooo i'm happy that still has it

@@Antonwalnuts It is a very nostalgic thing in many ways. Waking up in the middle of the night and hearing/seeing it and realising TV shows had ended for the night - another thing that has changed. Also, the Poltergeist movie - would that even work without the static?!

@@scanncuttutorials true! i mean for me it's not really nostalgic it's more "yo this is pretty cool why'd they change it?"

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Keep trying. Play with settings. Repeat.

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Not 100% sure I follow. If you're asking if you can mix a material with an emission shader for this method, then yes you likely could.

@@blenderbitesize how do you do that? For example I’m recreating the kitt’s voice box from knight rider, and in the original show when he talks it’s through a voice box that reacts to his voice. But I want to add a png file on top of that because it says ‘knight 2000’. So I want an emission as well as a png file

I see. You didn't mention the additional png in your previous message. That might need a different approach as it sounds like you're needing three things to be applied to your object. Whilst you can mix three things using this method you are essentially masking. You may need an alternate set up of nodes though so that the png has its original qualities but the other two textures mix. You'd also need to consider the voice animation which could be controlled by drivers linked to an audio file. Unless someone has done this before, you may need to piece this together from various other tutorials.