Blender Market – The Cycles Encyclopedia v1.5 (EPUB, PDF)

With The Cycles render engine you have more than 77 material nodes at your disposal. Who could possibly remember them all? Well, you can, with the help of this book.

The Cycles Encyclopedia is an in-depth book covering all nodes and settings of the Cycles render engine. It's a professional documentation project by the Blender experts Frederik Steinmetz & Gottfried Hofmann, both Blender Foundation Certified Trainers.


Detailed explanation of every node and setting in Cycles
Graphics and drawings explaining how the nodes work internally
Pre-rendered comparisons of node settings
Bonus chapters on render performance, camera settings and Python snippets to use with Cycles
Find out how a path tracer works internally and how to use that knowledge to your advantage
eBook in PDF format (319 pages A4) - compatible with most e-reader devices, smartphones and tablets.
More than 300 figures and images
Available in both English and German
Blender version: 2.79b
50% of the price go to the Blender Institute to fund further development of Cycles and Blender when ordered via the Blender.org e-store.
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