Creating Material Renders in Blender 3.2 - Blender Tutorial

In this beginner tutorial I show how to easily properly texture a sphere for material renders inside of Blender 3.2.
Links:
Free Textures: www.ambientcg.com
Instagram: / polygonisland

[@FionnHand]

You could use the modifier "Cast" to adapt your subdivided cube into a more perfect sphere.

[@PolygonIsland]

Oh, thank you! Didn't know that :)

[@mrtabs9049]

thanks

[@ZeroDean]

Use TO SPHERE
Shortcut: Shift-Alt-S
Menu: Mesh ‣ Transform ‣ To Sphere

[@merowin_]

1:58 That CTRL+SHIFT+T doesn't work if you haven't enabled the Node Wrangler addon mentioned at the beginning.

[@PolygonIsland]

Node Wrangler is basically a must when working with nodes, lots of node-related shortcuts just don't work without it enabled

[@dimension-ji7xk]

When you select something in a menu it is highlighted in blue such as at 0:37.
Does anyone know how to change that to a different color ?
I've been going to
Preferences : themes :
But haven't had any success .

[@mrtabs9049]

great vid for beginners!

[@kat74809]

Do you know if cycles-x rendering is faster or slower than the newest 3.2.2 version? I want to download the version with the fastest cycle render time and don't know which to download.

[@PolygonIsland]

Cycles X is slightly faster in the newest version of Blender

[@ZeroDean]

Use TO SPHERE (works on any mesh)
Shortcut: Shift-Alt-S
Menu: Mesh ‣ Transform ‣ To Sphere

[@PolygonIsland]

very helpful!