So if you need something more detailed or a better explanation on what node you should be using or what it does, then you'll have look somewhere else.Įvery model will be slightly different and/or use different textures, but the concept here is will apply to most model types. They also give me a way to produce base color textures if I make changes to them and need to re-bake them from Blender. My Shader node set ups are merely something to get textures onto a model and give me a half decent render out of the Eevee or Cycles render engines if I need one. Therefore, I am by no means an expert on this node thing, and as I just said, I am only beginning to learn how to use nodes and what they actually can do. What I'm showing here is how I get textures to work in 2.8x and it is something I am still learning because I procrastinated on switching to Cycles in the 2.5x to 2.7x days. I was more or less afraid of the node editor, it seemed so complicated and I did not like Cycles.įor my purposes, I only needed to see how my textures worked on a model because I work in the Source engine and material settings from Blender don't mean much in the Source Engine. Working with nodes in the Shader/Node Editor was something I put off while the Blender Render engine available and texture solid was still a useful tool.

Things have gotten a little more difficult when dealing with texturing models in Blender 2.8x

Ambient occlusion node blender 2.8