SOFT WARE: BLENDER
HOW CAN I CREATE A REALISTIC CRYSTAL MATERIAL?
Patrick Williams, San Francisco
With a handful of nodes, you can create realistic crystals in Blender
Pietro Chiovaro replies
Crystals can make for truly spectacular elements in our scenes – if we create them correctly. To get a genuinely true-to-life crystal, the best process is the procedural method, which allows you to create materials from scratch in a much more free and creative manner. Sometimes making such materials can be quite the challenge, but following my simple method here, you’ll be able to make an impressive and realistic crystal material in mere minutes.