How to make a ring material - Blender
A tutorial about how you can make a ring / circle material that is also easy to animate. This material works both for Eevee and cycles.
This material works great for showing a place on a map or antenna sending information in a cool and interesting way.
0:00 Goal image of the rings
0:15 Activate node wrangler
0:30 Create the plane
0:40 Start creating the material
0:57 The wave texture creating the rings
1:57 Combining rings and colour
2:19 Adding and fixing transparency
2:59 Fixing viewable are for the rings - gradient texture
3:40 Adding mix shader to combine all nodes and effects
4:20 Adding transparency for viewable area
4:37 Adding adjustment possibilities - Colour ramps
5:50 Animate the rings - Phase offset
6:23 Adding gradient to the rings - Colourramp + Gradienttexture