Rohan Dalvi Covers the Advantages of Using a Metalness-Roughness Approach to shader building Over Specular Glossiness. I guess you can break down shading and rendering workflows into two basic camps. One is the specular and
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Kai Stavginski is a Senior Technical Director for SideFX, working on Houdini. Here, he covers the new shading features that are available with Houdini 16. Kai looks at the Principled Shader, Houdini’s Classic Shader, Absorption,
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Houdini 16 introduced a new streamlined shader building workflow, called Material Networks. Shader building now works entirely at the VOP level, which is much easier for layering, maintaining shaders in the pipeline, and it is
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CG Generalist and FX Artist Tim van Helsdingen posts a look into ways that you can add alpha maps To the Principled Shader in Side FX Houdini. If you are not familiar, the Principled shader
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