About this Book

The goal of this book is to be a resource for people learning about procedural shaders in blender. It is still a work in progress. I don't know everything, and will therefore not be able to cover everything. The shaders from this book are also not optimized, and serve only as a learning resource. I'm not the first person to write about shaders, so I highly recommend that you take a look at some other great sources as well. A list of these resources can be found here.

The book focuses on creating procedural shaders in blender, i.e. it is not a tutorial for blender itself. The early chapters are aimed at complete beginners, and serve as a replacement for my series on youtube: Math in the node editor. Here we will look at how we can manipulate coordinates to create all sorts of cool effects. Later chapters will be more advanced and cover more interesting topics such as vector displacement. There will also be a small chapter on python scripting. Each chapter will have examples where we create shaders using the things we learned.

Acknowledgement

This book was written using mdbook. It would not have been possible without the loving community of Rustaceans. The graphs are from the fantastic website graphtoy, by Inigo Quilez.