Creating Natural Materials in Cycles - Blender Cycles Materials and Textures - page 113

6. Press Tab to close the group. On the interface, we now have the controls to increase

or decrease the overall bump effect, the sand color and grain, the wave strength, and
scale/repetition, as we can see in the following screenshot:

The final Sand_Group node with all the exposed input on its interface

The group is now available under the Add menu, and its shortcut involves pressing Shift +
A and navigating to Group | Sand_Group. It can be reused for other materials in the same
scene and also with different interface values, or linked/appended from a library in other
blend files.

Creating a simple ground material using
procedural textures

In this recipe, we will create a basic, raw ground material as shown in this screenshot:

The ground material as it appears in the final rendering