hborre posted at 9:26AM Mon, 10 May 2021 - #4418903

I recommend checking out the Blender Manual linked here. You will get an overview of what each node will do with some examples. Well worthwhile if you want to seriously grasp the basics of cycle. There are plenty of tutorials posted on YouTube if you care to spend time watching the videos and taking notes. There are also plenty of images with shader node arrangements scattered throughout the internet and readily available if you do a Google search.

My issue is not to understand the descriptions or at least most of them.

But for example in the other thread "One glass shader to rule them all" someone asked about diamonds.

So here we have a nice one:

I can see what is going on and what effect im after.

But when simply starting with a cycle shader, it just doesn't make a lot of sense how and why I would connect different things.

This is the final image of a shader I copied.

And the result:

But to me at least, the shader itself doesn't just seem logically to me, meaning starting with the cycle node and then just adding stuff. And obviously that would probably make more sense the more time you spend using and building them, and trying out different things. But my huge interest in making stuff, is not the technical side of creating shaders. I much more prefer to use others. So im happy others really enjoy making and sharing them, but for me personally Im more interested in the artistic side of just making stuff or what to say.

But thanks anyway, I do occasionally look in that manual you linked.