How to create a gradient texture?

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I am wondering how to recreate some kinds of effects (you can easily do in Photoshop) in Blender.

I want to create the gradient textures like ones pictured below, should I render objects and blur them in compositor? Or can I achieve it using only material nodes?

Radial gradient

Linear gradient

The vertical one might be doable with the Color Ramp node – J Sargent Jan 09 '15 at 16:28 — J Sargent, Jan 09 '15 at 16:28

Ray Mairlot · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-09T16:50:59.543

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You can acheive this with Cycles material nodes using the 'Gradient Texture' node.

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Setting the gradient node to 'Quadratic sphere' (and with a little offset from the vector mapping node) restults in this (on a plane with uv basic unwrapping):

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To control the scale of the 'Quadratic sphere' in the result above I scaled the UV's as scaling using the vector mapping node node seemed to scale it towards the corner.

For a linear gradient you can simply set the Gradient Texture to 'Linear':

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For different colours you can simply use a colour 'MixRBG' node and use the factor of the gradient texture instead of the colour and connect it to the 'Fac' of the mix node.

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edited Jan 09 '15 at 16:50

answered Jan 09 '15 at 16:42

Ray Mairlot

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Thanks Ray. Now I don't need the Photoshop any more ;). – Paul Gonet Jan 09 '15 at 17:51
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You can also use the "color ramp" node instead of the "mix" node. It allows more settings and finesse. http://i.stack.imgur.com/OIO5P.jpg – Zampai Jul 13 '16 at 15:36
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@Zampai this is a better answer than the accepted one IMHO – MicroMachine Jun 20 '19 at 22:11

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