Video Description

Discover how to create and animate a procedural water material in Blender with Eevee in this tutorial by Blender Secrets. Jan van den Hemel guides you through the process, helping you enhance your shader skills and explore Blender’s versatile features.

Creating the Water Material

• Open the shader editor and create a new material.
• In the Principled BSDF shader, set:
• Roughness to 0
• IOR to 1.33 (water’s index of refraction)
• Transmission to 1

Adding Waves

• Connect a Noise Texture to a Bump node, then to the shader’s Normal.
• Adjust the Noise Texture’s scale, detail, and use 4D for more complexity.
• Control the bump strength and water transparency with a Layer Weight node connected to Alpha.

Animating the Water

• Animate the Noise Texture’s W value to create moving waves.
• Control animation speed by dividing the frame number.
• Animate the Mapping node’s Y-axis location for additional movement.

Adding Caustics

• Mix a Noise Texture with generated coordinates.
• Use a Bump node and adjust contrast with a Color Ramp.
• Combine with an Emission shader and mix with the water shader.

Experiment with these techniques to create your own unique water materials. For more assets, visit ChuckCG’s Gumroad or support him on Patreon.

(This summary was generated using AI)