3D environment design with Blender : enhance your modeling, texturing, and lighting skills to create realistic 3D scenes / Abdelilah Hamdani and Carlos Barreto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamdani, Abdelilah, author.

Barreto, Carlos, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blender (Computer file).

Computer graphics.

Three-dimensional display systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Biography/History:

Hamdani Abdelilah: Abdelilah Hamdani is a 3D photorealistic designer and an online tutor specialized in making 3D photorealistic environments based on real references using Blender. He runs a dedicated website and YouTube channel named Reality Fakers, where he runs online courses on Blender and photorealism subjects that have been taken up by thousands of students. Barreto Carlos: Carlos Eduardo da Silva Barreto is a 3D generalist with more than 26 years of experience in the 3D industry, creating animation add-ons primarily in Blender to develop efficient and fastest workflows that make life easier for Blender artists. His add-ons have had thousands of downloads which goes on to show the Blender community's love and appreciation for his work. Carlos is a challenge seeker, constantly trying to improve existing processes with new tools and ideas to benefit the Blender community.

Summary:

3D Environment Design with Blender is an exclusive guide to creating photorealistic 3D environments, something that most 3D designers have trouble with. With this essential handbook, you'll be able to build stunning environments and animations with ease using tips, tricks, and hands-on projects.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Foreword

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Turn a Real Reference into a Realistic 3D Scene in Blender

Chapter 1: Most Common Modeling Mistakes That Prevent You from Achieving Photorealism

Technical requirements

The importance of using a real-world scale

Learning scale matching using fSpy

Downloading fSpy

Breaking down the fSpy tools

Adjusting the focal length

Exporting the fSpy file

Building our scene

The importance of using the bevel modifier when modeling

Summary

Chapter 2: The Basics of Realistic Texturing in Blender

Exploring the components for achieving photorealistic texturing in Blender

The Base Color map

The Roughness map

The Normal map

The Displacement map

Creating a realistic wood material using procedural texturing in Blender

The Mix node

Adding color to the wood texture using the ColorRamp node

Adding wood reflection using the Roughness map

Adding bumps to the surface of the wood material

Chapter 3: Efficient Unwrapping and Texturing in Blender

Importing the wood material

Texturing our wood cabin

What is UV mapping?

Unwrapping the wood cabin

Chapter 4: Creating Realistic Natural Plants in Blender

Modeling realistic natural ground

Creating the plants and leaves

Creating a green leaf

Applying a Subdivision modifier to the leaf

Texturing the leaf

Creating the second type of plant

Creating the dry leaves

Texturing a realistic natural ground

Using a particle system to scatter plants and leaves in our scene

Adding the second type of plants

Chapter 5: Achieve Photorealistic Lighting in Your Environment with Blender.

Technical requirements

Differences between the three render engines of Blender

Using the sun to emit realistic lighting

The Kelvin scale

Applying the Kelvin temperature scale to the sun using the Blackbody node

Rendering our scene

Adding a background to your render

Using a Blender Sky Texture node to light our environment

Lighting our wood cabin with lamp objects

Setting up realistic lighting using HDRI maps

How to set up an HDRI environment background for our scene

Part 2: Creating Realistic Landscapes in Blender

Chapter 6: Creating Realistic Landscapes in Blender

Enabling the A.N.T. landscapes add-on

Creating landscapes using the A.N.T add-on

Tweaking the shape of the landscape

Giving the landscape a real-scale measurement

Creating a realistic snowy mountain

Using the Separate XYZ node

Using the node wrangler to display nodes

Adding the Rocks texture to our mountain

Adding Sky Texture to lighten our world

Rendering our mountain with the Displacement map applied

Changing the shape of the mountain

Chapter 7: Creating and Animating Realistic, Natural-Looking Water

Creating a realistic, natural river

Creating a water material

Adding waves to the water's surface

Animating the water flow

Creating a continuously looping animation

Chapter 8: Creating Procedural Mud Material

Creating a realistic mud material using procedural texturing in Blender

Creating the mud material

Creating water puddles for the mud material

Organizing the node setup using the Frame node

Adding stones to the Mud material

Combining the stones with the puddles

Adding mud details

Adding color to the mud material

Adding reflection to the mud material.

Adding bumps to the mud material

Adding displacement to the mud material

Setting good lighting in our scene

Chapter 9: Texturing the Landscape with Mud Material

Importing the Mud material

Using groups to organize the Mud node setup

Adding custom settings to the node group

Creating a Texturing mask

Texturing the landscape with mud and rocky snow

Using groups to organize the rocky snow landscape node setup

Part 3: Creating Natural Assets

Chapter 10: Creating Natural Assets: Rock

Installing the rock generator add-on

Creating rocks using the rock generator add-on

Texturing the rock

Creating a rock material

The fastest way to set up PBR materials in Blender

Unwrapping the rock object

Setting up quick lighting for our scene

Optimizing the rock geometry

Chapter 11: Creating Realistic Flowers in Blender

Designing a buttercup

Modeling the buttercup flower petals

Modeling the buttercup flower stem

Texturing the buttercup flower

Unwrapping the buttercup flower

Texturing the buttercup flower stem

Creating the buttercup leaves

Applying textures with Alpha transparency

Sizing the buttercup flower

Part 4: Rendering Epic Landscape Shots

Chapter 12: Using Particle System to Scatter Objects in Blender

What is Particle System in Blender?

Why should I use the Hair type of Particle System?

Importing rock and flower assets into the landscape environment

Importing the Rock object

Using particles to scatter rocks in the landscape environment

Placing the particles in the landscape

Using Weight Paint to distribute particles

Replacing particles with the Rock object

Scattering flowers in the landscape.

Putting flower objects inside a collection

Boosting your Blender performance with one click

Chapter 13: Finalizing the Landscape Scene - Lighting, Rendering, and Compositing

Adjusting the landscape shape

Assigning the mountain material to the new landscape

Improving the water material

Setting realistic lighting in our scene

Adding a camera to a scene

Changing the rendering engine

What is the right number of samples to use?

Changing the rendered image resolution

Rendering the landscape scene

Compositing the scene

Using the Color Balance node

Adding Glare to the render

Index

About Packt

Other Books You May Enjoy.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781803233512

1803233516

OCLC:

1369033132