Chocofur Glossy Shader for Blender 2.79

Jump to:

Basic Glossy shader

The Chocofur Basic Glossy shader is our most common material. The aim was to create a node group that could be easily adjusted for day to day use. This allows users to build more complex materials by mixing them with advanced node groups.

A short comment regarding some techniques we're using. We've decided to separate the bump settings and close them in an independent node group as they would unnecessarily complicate the clean and basic look of the glossy shading node. Our approach to each shader is to add the elements when things need to get more advanced and reducing them for more common uses.

Advanced Glossy shader

The Chocofur Color Correction node group used in the example below is basically something you'd need to do manually when adjusting your texture maps inside Blender. That includes RGB Curves, Hue, Saturation, Value tweaks or R, G, B, channel separation. Just experiment to see how the texture inputs and values affect the final shader. It's not hard, just requires some time.

An important note on setting up the textured, glossy shaders in general. Despite showing you the way the Advanced Chocofur Glossy Shader can be set up, we would recommend starting the adjustments from the end. Create very shiny, dark material and start with setting up the surface bump. Then switch it off and adjust the surface glossiness. Next, move to the reflections adjusting the surface diffuse colors in the end. Finally, combine all elements and fine tune the result. By taking this approach you can be sure that each material aspect is configured independently and looks exactly as you wanted.

Below you can download both shaders used in this tutorial:
More details Download
Chocofur 01 Glossy Basic Shader
by Chocofur
FREE
More details Download
Chocofur 02 Glossy Advanced Shader
by Chocofur
FREE
Chapters

Chocofur Materials
Chocofur Shaders for Blender 2.79

We've created a few node groups inside Cycles and used them for creating 10, purpose-focused shaders. It's 5 different material types: glossy/coated surfaces, metals, fabrics, translucent, and glass. Each saved as basic and advanced shaders for more flexibility and different production purposes.
Chocofur Node Groups for Blender 2.79

We've created both specific shaders and Cycles node groups for quick material setup within Blender. Each shader is available in two versions: Basic (for quick, general use) and Advanced (for more complex adjustments). For creating 5 Basic and 5 Advanced chocofur shaders we've created 12 node groups in Cycles.
Chocofur Glossy Shader for Blender 2.79

The Chocofur Basic Glossy shader is our most common material. The aim was to create a node group that could be easily adjusted for day to day use. This allows users to build more complex materials by mixing them with advanced node groups.
Chocofur Metal Shader for Blender 2.79

In its usability the Chocofur Basic Metal shader doesn't differ much from the Basic Glossy Shader. We've kept it plain and simple for day to day work, enabling uses to add extra node groups for additional effects and realism.
Chocofur Fabric Shader for Blender 2.79

Our Basic Fabric Shader was created mostly with furniture models in mind. You can use it for quick material creation on sofas, beds, chairs etc. Keep in mind this shader is not suitable for creating leather materials.
Chocofur Translucency Shader for Blender 2.79

The Chocofur Basic Translucent Shader was created mostly with quick, nice looking vegetation shaders in mind. It works well on the grass instances as you may use it successfully on smaller objects without any textures applied.
Chocofur Glass Shader for Blender 2.79

The main purpose of our Advanced Translucent Shader is to create complex and realistic materials for any vegetation in 3D models. The node setup may look very complex and advanced but it mostly consists of color correction settings like, Hue, Saturation, Brightness or Contrast.