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Introduction to Nodes

Tim Formica [Room335] · June 16, 2008

Apollos has two well written tutorials for using nodes on his site. You can check them out at at BlenderUnderground

Author Tim Formica [Room335]
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13 responses

  1. TX_RX
    16 June 2008 at 15:53

    Blender underground is one of those sites which will get you moving through blenders new features quickly. Nicely written indeed. Now if I could only get my head into the shader nodes :D

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  2. Satish 'ILuvBlender' Goda
    16 June 2008 at 15:57

    Kudos to Apollos writing such awesome tutorials on using nodes for compositing and explaining basic pixel math. Thanks Dude. :-)\m/_

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  3. ArtIsLight
    16 June 2008 at 16:34

    Bravo, Apollos. Like the moon? Cool. Check out our http://minosafilms.wordpress.com/
    minosa = moon ;D
    God bless! Thanks a lot! Nodes are very … well, complicated to look at, but once I started grasping the concept they’re better, and hopefully will prove ease of use and powerful results. Thanks!

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  4. Blend3D
    16 June 2008 at 17:00

    I just registered at Blender Underground so that I could properly say thanks for these tutorials. I highly recommend for those of you like myself that are not comfortable with nodes to take a look. Time well spent!

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  5. noob
    16 June 2008 at 21:02

    He should have called his website “Blunderground” :) Not dissing on what he’s done there, it’s just a funner combination of the words “Blender” and “underground”.

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  6. Studio Stockwell
    16 June 2008 at 23:14

    Blender Underground is great. Keep up the great work Apollos. I hope the man never finds you. ;)

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  7. RH2
    17 June 2008 at 00:39

    The tutorials were great….
    Are you intending to write a tutorial about the material nodes next?

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  8. DramaKing
    17 June 2008 at 01:34

    This is great. I never really learned my node setups, so I can really use this!

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  9. Apollos
    17 June 2008 at 10:08

    Thanks for the kind comments everyone, and thanks for visiting the Blunderground. :P

    Regarding material nodes: don’t forget Eugene’s excellent introduction here: http://www.geneome.net/blender/writtentutorials/matnodes.html

    @Satish, glad you enjoyed the pixel math. Understanding the basics here is what got me going.

    @Stockwell, I’m still far away from the gaze of that watchful eye. The Man is everywhere, but he’s not at Blender Underground. 8)

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  10. ysvry
    17 June 2008 at 18:36

    great tuts.

    The node tut 2 is already outdated, it can be simplyfied by adding an invert node instead of the coloramp to invert the alpha chanel. BTW isnt it easier to just connect the alpha channel to the fac. of the shadowmix node to get rid of the blackline?
    keep up the good work , did any corperate body already paid half of half of the training costs they spared? If they do I might as well start a tut site.

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  11. Studio Stockwell
    17 June 2008 at 20:59

    @ Appllos LOL! :)

    Well i forgot to mention that if he ever does see you? Switch to object mode and hit M pick a layer and hide. \^_^/

    Keep up the great work.

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  12. Colemeister14
    7 August 2008 at 05:16

    Amazing, this is so helpful. I finished the first and got half way through the second (part 2), but then I got side tracked. I will surely go back, though, because they are very helpful. 5/5!

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  13. Bill Brown
    31 December 2010 at 03:09

    It seemed complicated to work on nodes when I started but I got the hang of it now check these out http://instantactivation.webng.com

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