Procedural Vue-like materials with Cycles

Question

Is there a way to make procedural materials like the ones here in Cycles for rocks, sand, landscapes, etc.?

Here's an image of what I'm trying to achieve:

Example image of rocks

I'm not sure what your question is. Cycles does have procedural textures if that's what your asking. — gandalf3, Nov 08 '13 at 00:39
Thanks for the fast reply, my question is more can this be done with blender cycles for example materials like this http://nukeation.deviantart.com/art/My-Vue-7-Material-Palette-110562439 with blender procedural materials ? — bside, Nov 08 '13 at 00:49
Here's what I whipped up in a few minuets. Is there something specific in those examples that you want to know if is possible to recreate in blender? — gandalf3, Nov 08 '13 at 01:30
Thanks , can you give a screenshot from the node editor so that i can use this for learning how to make a material like this for example with the cycles node editor — bside, Nov 08 '13 at 01:48
Here is the node setup. Note that this used the experimental cycles displacement (see this for more info) — gandalf3, Nov 08 '13 at 02:07
@gandalf3 Hi, why don't you add your comments and node setup as an answer? — stacker, Nov 08 '13 at 06:55
@stacker I added an answer, but the question is a bit broad. — gandalf3, Nov 08 '13 at 07:31

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:57

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I would say yes.

Here is an example I made in a few minutes entirely with material nodes:

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Node setup:

Note that the color ramp near the bottom of the screenshot is going from 0 to 3 (to make the displacement stronger). To make colors darker or lighter than 1 or 0 you must type the values in directly.

Also note that the above image is rendered with Cycles experimental displacement.
To enable this you must enable experimental features in Properties > Render settings > Render > Feature Set:

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This enables the Displacement settings in Properties > Object Data.

edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:57

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Thanks , for the node setup . Now if i want every rock different then i must you add the new vector tranform node . It allows to change coordinates between different spaces, World, Object or Camera – bside Nov 08 '13 at 10:55
@bside That would do it – gandalf3 Nov 08 '13 at 11:48
You forgot to add the Veronoi Crac node setup (and possibly the ColorRamps values and colors - tried to figure out a nice setup myself)... for the rest, the setup is working very nice for a Sea Shell I'm making. Thank you! – Phantômaxx May 09 '15 at 12:46
@DerGolem I've uploaded the .blend. Enjoy :) – gandalf3 May 09 '15 at 18:50
Oh, thank you! In the meanwhile, I used a Standard Voronoy/Intensity which also worked well. Thank you again, Gandalf. Your answers are like mini tutorials. Always very well done. – Phantômaxx May 09 '15 at 19:07

Procedural Vue-like materials with Cycles

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Node setup:

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