asrailight opened this issue on Aug 01, 2007 ยท 9 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 01 August 2007 at 7:01 PM
LOL
I guess there's quite a few people who'd like some more introductory shader tuts.
So, let me get right on that.
John Rickard's Castle Poser site is excellent, but its actually more intermediate than beginner. He does a great job of explaining the basics of a lot of the nodes, with interesting examples of things you can do with them. But there's nothing on super basic stuff, like how to use the built-in diffuse and specular effectively, and when to NOT use those and use individual specialized diffuse and specular nodes instead.
So I think I'll start with those. I'll post them at the Node Cult at RDNA (my shaders-only forum!). Right now there's only intermediate or expert stuff in there. But you can still whet your appetite by reading some of those posts.
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