Improved Coatings in Blender 4.0

Опубликовано: 06 Ноябрь 2025
на канале: Christopher 3D
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The Clearcoat function of Cycles in Blender 3.6 has received some important updates and improvements for the Blender 4.0. That's what we discuss in this video.

I discuss energy conservation briefly as a new feature associated with Coat, for a full demonstration of this watch this video:    • The Furnace Test, does Blender 4.0 pass?  

Watch all of my videos about awesome improvements to rendering and materials in 4.0.    • Blender 4.0 Feature Videos  

I briefly cover energy conservation. To see the full extent why this is an issue, you can see my video on the energy conserving problem in 3.X here:    • Get proper energy conserving materials in ...  

00:00 Introduction
00:20 About BSDFs
00:52 Principled BSDF's 4-tiered system
01:58 Important changes from 3.6 to 4.0
02:42 Weighting vs IOR control in 4.0
04:25 Tinting
05:55 Moving from 3.6 to 4.0
10:30 Energy conservation examples
12:00 Setting up a basic car paint
15:25 Coatings on glass materials

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