quartz crystal in blender

can you deny the beauty of this let me let me show you how to make it I'm going to start by deleting everything because for my demo I used a cylinder we're going to use cell fracture make sure your add-on is enabled okay apply the thing just increase the noise to one increase the randomness to one click OK and once we get rid of our main cylinder you can see we have all these nice little fragments hit Ctrl J to make them one object and the reason I'm doing this edit mode with individual Origins and do this kind of like scaling thing I'm gonna do it by 0.98 just so that there's the tiniest bit of Gap this is already a good start the secret to getting details just sculpting it in for your brush I'm gonna use a custom texture we're gonna import an image like this that looks like rock and since you can see this is kind of on its side what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this texture and tilt it by for me it's 100 degrees and when we start painting it looks horrible quick fix for that is enable Dino toppo which means Dynamic topology you bring this down to like 1.5 and now when you start drawing it's gonna but we have all this kind of detail it's looking pretty good but I think we can do a bit better so I'm gonna swap out the texture maybe we'll use clay strips or something like this I'm gonna scale this up and just draw a bit of a rocky texture onto this and you can do this until the horse comes home let's just make a material new material replace this with the glass because we're going for kind of a crystally looking thing take the roughness and bring it up so it doesn't look as insane I'm gonna use a index of refraction of 1.6 because it just looks good and take that glass bsdf and actually duplicate it two more times why is he doing that well one of them is going to be red one of them is going to be green and one of them is going to be blue and when we add these we're gonna get rid of all like the color tints so you can see we get back the original white but now if we take these indices of refractionies and just make them a bit different for red and green and all of this you can kind of see how the color is splitting that's what I'm going for it is now time for the secret sauce if you take a translucent bsdf and you just mix these together you get a much more good looking thing so here's before kind of overly shiny and here's after it just makes it look more like quartz this is the secret to my crystal yes party

Channel: CGMatter

Views: 20,051

Keywords: blender quartz material, blender crystal tutorial, how to make 3d crystals, blender gem, gem jewel opal amethyst emerald, blender advanced material, how to make 3d quartz, 3d crystal tutorial, blender 4.0, blender 3.8, how to make rock in blender, blender rock tutorial, easy blender tutorial for beginners, fast blender tutorial, how to make crystals, metallic material, shiny material, blender advanced shading, how to get good at blender, how to get good at 3d, 3d vfx cgi

Id: lB8m1LbQZg0

Length: 2min 17sec (137 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 08 2023