Johnny Nodes

Damaged Patterned Floor - Full Walkthrough

This is the final graph from the new YouTube video coming next week "A Material in 3 levels of complexity" - I decided to create a entire, realtime build of the full material for Patrons. The whole thing comes in at around 7 hours of tutorial. Thanks to the folks in the Discord for helping get me over the finish line this weekend (I also had Covid and had nothing else to do!)

We did a bunch of cool stuff in this one:

- Spent a lot of time on more advanced Crack tech
- Some s...

Patron Graph Review - Grassy Rocks + Substance Graph Dowload

Very excited to release this one. Roxie who is a member of the 1k club had DM'd me looking for some help with a material she was working on which lead to this video of my taking a pass through it!

I'm definitely interested in doing more of these so feel free to at least message me about it. I've also created an official Discord for any Patrons in the 512 and 1k clubs. Automatic invites should have gone out from the bot, but I'll make a larger post shortly.

I'm hoping to turn i...

Common Artifacts ant their Solutions

Hey folks, here's our walkthrough of those most common artifacts that I wanted to get to - This is the first video coming from the result of that last ContentVote™. I hope you guys find it useful and if you have other things that you commonly run in to I would love to hear about them!

I think I'm going to start uploading the early access stuff without all of the "fancy" bells and whistles editing so that Patrons can get access ASAP. I'll ultimately replace these with the full edit d...

I couldn't be more surprised?

This is the actual exact opposite of the order I suspected people would want lmao - Sounds like this weekend I'll be putting together the artifact video!

I'm glad to have everyone's input here, it definitely helps guide me towards what will end up having the most impact. Thank you to everyone who is voting in these!

Flood Fill Short

Giving you guys this week's short a little early - On YouTube the job of these is to get people interested in larger tutorials, but I do hope they're helpful on their own as well - I have some other ideas for short content, but would love to hear more ideas if patrons have specific stuff they are interested in

Order for Next Content

Hey guys - I'm putting the next slate of stuff up for a vote for what gets done first (as a reminder, you can always message me ideas of stuff you would like to see in addition)

Materials in 5 Levels of Complexity:

I've seen people do this kind of thing where they build something all the way from "Noob" to "Lv 500 Boss". I think this would be a cool opportunity to show how I see people operating at different skill levels and how to approach getting to the next level of finish. <...

Intro to Animated Materials

Ask and you shall receive!

Today we're going to finally dip our toes into animated materials in designer. We're going to work through three examples that will set us up for more complex stuff in the future. I hope that these examples will spark your imaginations and you'll see some obvious ways you can apply it to fun ideas of your own!

You will need substance player to follow along with the tutorial, you can get it here: 2025-01-21 06:25:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Next Video

Finished up the filming for the long-awaited Intro to Animated Materials video! I'll be putting it together this weekend as well as filming the patron-only portion where I get everything set up in Unreal

The Contract is Complete

You guys voted for it so here it is! The know the node, deep dive for Tile Generators. Next we will be doing the Intro to Animated Materials

Know the Node - Tile Generator - Graph

Here is the link to the graph we walked through in the most recent tutorial!


https://drive.google.com/file/d/15XawBHPRuRnRhtVV-177Zu3MleSCTDxF/view?usp=sharing

2025!

Happy New Year everyone! 

Hope everyone has had/is about to have some great celebrations! I wanted to take a minute here to thank everyone and talk about outline content plans for 2025.

Firstly, I really appreciate everyone who has signed back on to support the page since I got started back up last month. I've been really happy to meet some new people and get some ideas of wher...

Upcoming Videos

Okay seems like people aren't as hot on the optimization stuff so that will wait. Tile generator and an Intro to animated materials is next! I will definitely be doing some more advanced, practical animation stuff on the Patreon. Will likely do the koi fish from my pond material since they use most parts

Xmas Lights - BONUS - Unreal Shader

Releasing this to all of the tiers - Here we're setting up the blinking lights in Unreal Engine!

Xmas Lights - Part 1 - Cables

Digging into the Paths + Spline nodes in order to create out initial cable generator and custom Blender nodes

Next Tutorial Filming in the Can

Happy Holidays guys!

I just finished recording the last of my walkthrough of this Christmas material special. I wanted to make a graph that does some light diving into expression and value processors to get people some baby steps to those things - People tend to think they are a bit scarier then they really are.

It's also a great chance to look at some unusual blending where we'll have to think about stuff in a slightly more complicated way and get creative with how we pass mas...

Something festive cooking for Xmas

Any guesses???

Quick Tips for Tile Generators

I find no one really discusses how the different size modes work on all the tile generator nodes and I often see wild solutions to problems that these different modes already solve!

Poll: Next Content Piece

Got a few things on the docket - interested in what people would like to see next?

Catacomb Wall tutorial

Finishing up my first full length, realtime, node-by-node material build! We're up to 5 hours and I expect it to wind up at around 6!.

This is going to be a full deep dive explaining every node I use and the reasons behind all the decisions I make. The tutorial will come with the .sbs so you can follow along as well. I'm really excited about it and hope everyone will find it helpful.

Everyone in the 1k tier will have full access to the entire thing.

Aiming to have it o...

2 Minute Cobbles

Waiting for YouTube to get their >1 minute Shorts set up, so thought I would post this here early for members!!!

Know the Node - Histogram

First video in a new series; Know the Node - Here we'll be doing deep dives in to particular node or general groupings of nodes and really digging in. We're starting with the Histograms.

Catacomb Wall

Wrapped this guy up and made a quick video to showcase it - The plan is to create a walkthrough for YouTube over the next week or so and to release a complete step by step here on the 1k tier. Hope you guys like this one I had a super fun time on it

Catacomb Wall WIP

Little play by play of the material I've built for the new tutorial

New Content

Is on the way (may miss the Halloween date though)

Something Spooky...

This way comes.

Thumbnail Teaser

You know how much I love thumbnails

First Student Art Review

Tomorrow at 8:00 am I'll be posting the first Student Material review to the channel. Still looking at the format for these going forward and am open to ideas. For now we walked though the graph and saw what was working and what could use some more oomph and than I made my own sand to demonstrate some techniques

Student Reviews

Hey Everyone, I had the idea strike me today to maybe bring some volunteer students of mine online and review a material they are struggling with. I would then re-build it the way I might have approached it. Is this something people would be interested in? Or do you feel it's better to continue focusing mostly on the tutorial content?

Monday's Title Card!

Blend mode deep-dive incoming

A graph making a thumbnail

What do you think we will be discussing in this video??!