After this quick environment project you’ll know about…
● Rock creation methods
● Procedural texturing tricks
● Procedural modeling tricks with modifiers
● Isolating ‘up’ or sky-facing polygons to treat those differently
● Isolating occluded/crevice areas to treat those differently
● Not isolating friends and family by occasionally taking a break
● How to create a quick adjustable mist pass
● A sense of completion for reading all the way this far down the bulletpoint list
● Useful addons – Node Wrangler, Auto Tile-Size.
End Blend file can be found here.
After doing a few of these beginner projects the goal is to get you to a point where you’ll not be able to consider yourself a beginner anymore.
So welcome to this complete project in blender where we’ll be creating this rocky waterfall stream environment.
NODES
GOT A FEW MINUTES? TRY A TAKE IT FURTHER CHALLENGE!!
Try this!
In the above image i’ve tweaked 2 things, instead of the transparent shader the water plane shader is mixing between a GLOSSY shader set to a mirror-like shine. And! I added bump node for that glossy shader and plugged what we were using for the streaky parts into the height socket. I also added an extra mix shader for the gradient texture that we used so we can still have it be transparent at the edges.
If you get stuck check out the node layout below!
I’ve also set the world to ‘use nodes’ and i’ve plugged in an ‘Environment Texture’. You can find great environment textures here…
https://hdrihaven.com/index.php
http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html
That should give the mirror like glossy shader something more interesting to reflect and emit some more interesting light detail across the scene.
Feel free to post images of any results you get from trying these methods, I’d honestly love to see what you folks can do! Plus any comments or if you get stuck simply post below!
Aidy. 
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