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Contents 1 Diffuse Shading 2 Specular Shading 3 Reflections 4 Refractions 5 SubSurface 6 Material Nodes 7 Nodes tools 8 How to do it with Nodes

Diffuse Shading

• Lambert - Standard shading model, illumination equals the cosine of the angle between the surface and the light.
• Minnaert - Strong backscattering shading model, good for velvet, or fuzzy surfaces.
• Oren-nayar - Rough surface shader, good for materials like the Moon, clay, plaster, rock and concrete.
• Occlusion - Shades based on how accessible the surface is, exposed surfaces are shaded white, crevices are shaded black.
• Occlusion II - Similar to Occlusion but can apply colour instead of just shades of grey.
• Theta - Translucent shading of thin-walled objects
• Translucency - Simple shader that transports light from the back of the surface to the front.

Specular Shading

• Blinn - Basic specular model.
• Phong - Very basic specular model, has stretched highlights at glancing angles.
• Anisotropic - Good for brushed metals, CDs.
• CookTorrance - Rough surface speculars, more accurate than any of the other models.

Reflections

• Reflections - Reflection model that includes colour dispersion and blur.
• AniReflections - Same as above but the amount of blur in both directions can be controlled independantly.

Refractions

• Refractions - Reflection model that includes colour dispersion and blur.
• AniRefractions - Same as above but the amount of blur in both directions can be controlled independantly.

SubSurface

• Kappa - Simple subsurface shader, shades either forward scatter or back scatter.
• Kappa II - Like Kappa, but can do both forward and backward scattering at once.
• Omega - Complex subsurface shader, can calculate multiple internal bounces and respects colours through raytracing.

Material Nodes

NB: When you connect a Material node up to the Material input in the node editor, it overrides every setting from the classic editor.

• Conductor - Good for metals.
• Dielectric - Good for glass and liquids.
• Delta - Simple energy conserving material, prevents blown out reflections.
• Sigma - Subsurface scattering shader with energy conservation properties. Works well with radiosity.
• Sigma2 - Fast preprocessing subsurface scattering shader. FPrime incompatible.
• Skin - Simple skin shader, works well with radiosity.
• FastSkin - Fast preprocessing subsurface scattering shader for skin. FPrime incompatible.

Nodes tools

• Spot Info

How to do it with Nodes

Luminosity - How to get Luminosity happening when you're using diffuse shaders