I do miss the physicality of getting stuck into real world materials.

But moreover, I miss all the time I had, when I was able to do that!

These days, I guess I'm just content to use what it takes for an end result... plus I love all the stuff that can be done with CG and where it has gotten to now... it is a very exciting medium.

But I totally do get where Khai is coming from, I think, with looking to work more from scratch... and I would wholly commend him for that impetus too.

If some more, structured tutorials, guides to using the mat room come out of this thread then that would be a great result.

Not that there aren't a lot, contributed by BB and others already, of course...

...but something resembling more of a quick start guide, some more step-by-steps... with some sort of associated node cheatsheat would be fantastic on top of that, I reckon...

...it does seem to me like the mat room and usage off it has possibly now matured, from experimentation and development of techniques, into some more tried and tested practices, such that the above could probably be put together in a nice, accessible format for folk to follow better?