Thanks for that, Hedd.

All I'm doing these days is reading. Believe it or not, not even saying anything. There's nothing to say at all. I'm about 2/3rds of the way throught the Brecht Easter-Egg thread (Cycles announcement and discussion) - a lot of shaders and discussions there, with the obligatory forum opinion posturing that you tend to see everywhere, but the cool thing is watching this new renderer catch on, materials be developed and played with... it is AMAZING! But wow, a lot of really knowledgeable people on things materials: clearly, this mob have been dong lots with BI (Blender Internal) and there's a fair reluctance to give it up, even though it's disorganised, filled with cheats, impossible to restructure.

They are willing to share, though. Because the programme is open-source, they can share scenes, called .blends. Which is an amazing teaching tool, particularly in this new Cycles environment, since now I can look at shaders first-hand, then render the finished .blend on my system and get that artist's results. In Poser, you can't really do that usually, since a lot of content is for-pay.

Back to reading... head-down/bum-up. Eye's bubbling. :woot:

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

Metaphor of Chooks