Blender Octane For Environment Tutorial Tweet

[Artanas]

Hi BlenderOctaners,

I am pleased to announce that, in a month or so, I will release a new tutorial directed at concept artists and illustrators who would like to learn Blender Octane plugin. This one will focus on landscapes and environments concepts.

Part of it is Jama Jurabaev's workflow adapted to octane nodes.

I will show a lot of usefull nodes that help bringing the assets together. I will also show some usefull tricks I came up with.

here is a little video to give you an idea:
https://youtu.be/JjrlSuaDPeg

The first part will include:

- Importing Surfaces and any assets from Quixel Bridge directly in blender Octane ( with specular and AO, etc...)
- Blending assets with the ground texture, with a controller for scale and size
- Custom node wrangler addon
- Believable and reflective puddles or rivers
- Automatic Assets blending relative to various ground textures
- Procedural blending of multiple textures
- Displacement terrains

all of wich was done on a simple unsubdivided plane.


The next part will cover randomly textured scattered objects, cameras and LUTs, lights, fogs and vdbs, light projections, image emission, Chaos texture node, decals,...

I am half way but I think this will be a very complete node review.
I hope you will like it and don't hesitate to give some feedback here.

You can also go to my youtube channel to watch some of my free octane tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/user/artanas75/videos

[jan8]

looking forward to see this!

[Artanas]

Hi BlenderOctaners,

It's out! ^^

You can check ou the trailer here to get a idea : https://youtu.be/tJK0FPEV8UE
and grab it here : https://pierresantamaria75.gumroad.com/l/qdgio
Since it comes out in time for the black friday, there is a 25% discount.

This tutorial is directed at illustrators and concept artists who would like to use Blender Octane plugin to create landscapes and environment design.
Part of it is Jama Jurabaev's workflow adapted to octane nodes.
I cover a large range of usefull techniques that I use in my work. All of the materials were created on a simple unsubdivided plane.

Included in this tutorial: 3h of Blender Octane Plugin narrated videos (16 Chapters), Various Jpeg Renders, Node system screenshot for every chapter.

Topics Covered: Basic settings, Octane Custom node wrangler, Importing megascans assets and surfaces from Quixel bridge, Scaling shaders within the viewport, Mixing two materials, 3D Assets material integration with various ground materials, Creating a Water mask, Texture displacement , Random texture with object scattering, Octane camera imager settings, Setting multiple cameras, length and aperture, Background image integration in final render, Four types of Fogs, Images as planes for simple FX, Light options : image projection, IES profiles & God rays, Rendering passes.

Here are some of the images I made with it:

You can also check my youtube channel for free tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@artanas75/videos
Feel free to comment here if you have any questions.
Cheers.

[Artanas]

Hi BlenderOctaners,

Santa is coming to town and he brought a Christmas Sale:
20% off on both Blender Octane tutorials

Use the code: BOPT_XMAS_2022
(available from 20 dec 2022 to 02 jan 2023 )

or grab them here :
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Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/tJK0FPEV8UE
Cheers^^