Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook -- Table of Contents -- Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code and colored graphics -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- Introduction -- Knowing your ingredients -- A look at the hardware -- 1. Key Holder and Wallet Studio Shot -- Introduction -- Setting up Cycles for the first run -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- Creating a three-point light setup in Cycles using mesh emitters -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Key Light -- Fill Light -- Rim Light -- Learning environment lighting -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Using the Glossy shader to create a clean metal material -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Adding realism to the keys with a bump texture -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Creating a rubber shader for the key holder -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Adding color to the key holder -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating a leather material for the wallet -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Using the Cycles camera's depth of field -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Setting the Cycles render parameters -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works...

2. Creating Different Glass Materials in Cycles -- Introduction -- Creating a simple glass shader -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating a glass full of water -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Using default Cycles caustics -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more… -- See also -- Creating custom fake caustics -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more... -- Creating a custom and more versatile glass shader -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating more complex glass materials -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Obtaining a dispersion effect -- Getting ready -- How to do it -- How it works… -- There's more... -- Creating an absorption glass shader -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- 3. Creating an Interior Scene -- Introduction -- Creating fake portals to decrease the noise in the scene -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Creating a parquet material -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Creating materials for the plant in the scene -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- See also -- Creating a different kind of leather -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- See also -- Creating the materials for the lamp -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- Assigning the different materials -- Creating the marble -- How it works… -- There's more… -- See also -- Creating a carpet using hair particles -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- See also -- Setting up night lighting -- Getting started.

How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- Using IES files in Cycles -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- See also -- 4. Creating an Exterior Scene -- Introduction -- Setting up the lighting with an external plugin -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more… -- See also -- Creating the road material -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- Creating the asphalt -- Creating the mud -- Mixing the two node groups -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Creating the grass material -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- There's more -- Texturing the tree trunk and creating realistic leaves -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- Creating the bark -- Creating the leaves -- How it works… -- There's more… -- See also -- Adding flowers to the scene -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- Creating the stigma -- Creating the petal and the stem -- How it works -- There's more -- See also -- Creating the wood material for the table and the fence -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- Creating the wooden planks -- Creating the wooden poles -- Creating the wooden poles ends -- How it works… -- There's more… -- See also -- Giving final touches to the image using render passes -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- Adding the background and a bloom effect -- Creating a blur mask for the horizon -- Creating masks for color correction -- Final touches -- How it works… -- Adding the background and a bloom effect -- Creating a blur mask for the horizon -- Creating masks for color correction -- Final touches -- There's more… -- See also -- 5. Creating a Cartoonish Scene -- Introduction -- Setting up the environment and lighting -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- Lighting and render settings -- Sea -- Floor -- Balustrade -- Dust Particles -- How it works... -- There's more...

Creating skin, teeth, and other body parts -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- Skin -- Eye -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating the hair material -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- See also -- Creating the dress material -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Boots -- Foular -- Belt -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Compositing the scene -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- 6. Creating a Toy Movie Scene -- Introduction -- Setting up the lighting -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Setting up scenography lights -- Other lights -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating a realistic plastic material for the characters -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating the material for the soldier's face -- Creating black plastic material -- Creating material for the soldier's chest -- Creating the Officers's plastic material -- Creating the Darth's plastic material -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating the environment -- Getting started -- How to do it... -- Creating the floor -- Creating the column wall -- Creating a plain wall -- Creating other wall materials -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Achieving a movie look using the compositor -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Render settings -- Compositing the image -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- 7. Car Rendering in Cycles -- Introduction -- Setting up the lighting -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating the car paint material -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating the material for the tyres and the rims -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating the Rims material -- Creating tyres -- Creating brakes.

How it works… -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating the material for headlights and other details -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating the tail lights -- Creating other parts -- How it works… -- There's more... -- See also -- Compositing the scene -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- 8. Creating a Car Animation -- Introduction -- Setting up the lighting -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating a car paint material -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating the materials for the exterior environment -- Getting Started -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Setting up the scene for the animation -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Compositing the scene -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See Also -- 9. Creating an Iceberg Scene -- Introduction -- Creating the ice and snow materials -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- Creating ice -- Creating snow -- Mixing ice and snow -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating the sea material in Cycles -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Compositing the scene -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- 10. Creating Food Materials in Cycles -- Introduction -- Creating grapes in Cycles -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating parmigiano cheese -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more… -- See also -- Creating bread -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also.

Learning the Branched Path Tracing render.