{"id":284,"date":"2023-05-05T11:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/docs\/sturdy\/usage\/creating-your-own-materials\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T15:34:38","slug":"creating-your-own-materials","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/docs\/sturdy\/usage\/creating-your-own-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating your own Sturdy materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera-1024x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera-1536x1536.webp 1536w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera-2048x2048.webp 2048w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera-700x700.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To create your own materials, begin by <strong>appending<\/strong> the <strong><em>Sturdy Standard<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Sturdy Pro<\/em><\/strong> materials from the provided <strong>sturdy-shader.blend<\/strong> file.<br \/>\n<small><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: For faster access, you may also copy the <strong>sturdy-shader.blend<\/strong> file to your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CdYz9oLuAOI\"><strong>Asset Browser<\/strong> folder<\/a>.  That way, no matter what Blender file you&#8217;re working on, from your <strong>Asset Browser<\/strong> you&#8217;ll be able to drag in the <strong><em>Sturdy Standard<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Sturdy Pro<\/em><\/strong> materials, and with them their respective node groups.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/arm.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/arm-1024x366.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/arm-1024x366.webp 1024w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/arm-300x107.webp 300w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/arm-768x274.webp 768w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/arm-1536x549.webp 1536w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/arm-2048x731.webp 2048w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/arm-700x250.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you may choose one of the following methods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DUPLICATE AND REUSE THE EXISTING MATERIALS<\/strong><br \/>\nMake copies of the provided <strong>Sturdy<\/strong> materials, rename them and boom: customize each new material using the adjustment stack on the node group.<br \/>\n<\/br>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>CREATE YOUR NEW MATERIAL FROM SCRATCH<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a new material on the <strong>Shader Editor<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Delete the <strong>Principled BSDF<\/strong> node. <\/li>\n<li>Use the <strong>SHIFT+A<\/strong> keyboard shortcut (for <strong>Add<\/strong>) and, from the <strong>Group<\/strong> option near the bottom, choose one of the <strong><em>Sturdy<\/em><\/strong> node groups.<\/li>\n<li>Plug the output of the <strong><em>Sturdy<\/em><\/strong> node group on the <strong>Surface<\/strong> slot of the <strong>Material Output<\/strong> node.<\/li>\n<li>Rename your new material and customize to your heart&#8217;s content.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera2-1024x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera2-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera2-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera2-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera2-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera2-1536x1536.webp 1536w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera2-2048x2048.webp 2048w, https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/camera2-700x700.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":7,"template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-284","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/284\/revisions\/384"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/54"}],"prev":[{"title":"World and Environment","link":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/docs\/sturdy\/usage\/world-and-environment\/","href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulobrabo.com\/brabarous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}