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‘Blender Mats’ Material Libraries

Bart ·

matcolorshift-1jpg.jpgOscar Alvarado has prepares no less than seven themed material libraries for use with Blender, each consisting of ten materials. He even expects to add another five next month.

The materials all look very professional and you should be able to find a use for them.

The currently available libraries are:

  • Colorshift Paint 1
  • Metallic Paint 1
  • Glossy Paint 1
  • Precious Metals 1
  • Ancient Stone 1
  • Colored Glass 1
  • Ultra GLossy Metal
  • Microscope View Pack 1

To use them, follow Oscar’s instructions:

  1. Load or make a new scene (or use some scene from your perssonal project, etc).
  2. Use the Shift + F1 shortcut for call the “Load Library” dialog.
  3. Use the browser in the window to find the “.blend” file whit the materials (COLORSHIFT 1 for example).
  4. Click on it and, from the list, select the word “Material”.
  5. From the list of materials,choose and click the material name and then click on the “Load Library” button.
  6. Go to the Materials section and select for asign the new material added to the scene on the meshes, curves, etc.

For a good overview, and for reference while working with the materials, grab the Catalog.

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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