Grass blade of Hell

[giacomo picasso]

Hello all, i’ve been doing the execellent Macro series, but while doing Chapter 3, the drew droplet, i’ve run into some problems with the shading. i replicated to the letter the instructor’s nodes, but my leaf still looks awfull and plasticky. I suspect it has to do with the bump node but i can-t seem to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated.

[Martin Bergwerf]

HI Giacomo @_Jack ,

You are using Material Preview which is EEVEE. Switch to Cycles, like in the Course.

[giacomo picasso]

Hello Martin, here’s the result in Cycles 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Giacomo, that’s still Material Preview, therefore EEVEE:

[Omar Domenech]

As Martin says, Material Preview always uses EEVEE, no matter if you change the engine to Cycles in the menu. You have to change the view to render view, so the little ball to the right of the one you have on. 

[giacomo picasso]

my bad guys, but i still thinks it looks bad, i presume i messed up somewhere along the bump part as the detail don’t show up as well as in the tutorial. Could it be the method of UV unwrapping? i used a smart UV projection….

[Omar Domenech]

There might be something unplugged in the nodes. It feels like you’re using a viewer node instead of the BSDF. Can you post a picture of the whole material to check?

[Martin Bergwerf]

Try changing the Values (Strength and Distance) in the Bump Node. The size of your grass blades, for instance might be a bit different from the ones in the Course. Don’t just Copy the Values used, but use them as a starting point and change them untill you get what you want. (I know, this can be very frustrating at first, tweaking the Values of all those Nodes and trying not to make more of a mess, trying to remember what each Node does and how changing a Value in one Node changes the result, but that’s just the way it is….it will get easier over time, I promise).

Also, if I remember correctly, Kent switches out the Bump Node for a Displacement later on in this Lesson.

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