Blender Procedural Smooth Tiled Concrete 🗿

🌟 Product Overview

This product contains a Blender procedural material for rendering smoothed, tiled concrete — with aesthetics inspired by surfaces such as modern concrete flooring and industrial building walls:

The shader nodes consist of procedural logic that generates these characteristics — including (but not limited to):

• Two primary concrete colors.
• A third, subtle “glaze color” that often collects on resin-poured concrete: https://www.instructables.com/Resin-Basics-How-to-Mix-Resin-Colors/.
• Tiling that separates and offsets the texture noise into squared-off sections.
• Texturing of chips, cracks, and holes.
• Layered bump mapping for the concrete and its surface details.

Furthermore, as a benefit of Blender’s shader node architecture, it’s seamless to configure, customize, duplicate, and extend according to your needs 💪

✨ Key Features

• ⚙️ Extensively customizable controls for the material’s aesthetic characteristics.
• 🎨 Optimized for Blender 4.1 to leverage the features of the new Principled BSDF shader.
• ✨Clean, well-architected node trees — crafted with care for logical coherence and extensibility.
• 🎭 A starter set of demo objects showcasing various ways to use the material.

📦 Contents

• A Blender file containing:
  • The aforementioned procedural material.
  • A usage demo with models showcasing the material’s application.
  • A “studio” setup with lighting, multiple cameras, and multiple backdrop surfaces to experiment with.
  • An environment-lighting setup with multiple “World” configurations to experiment with.
  • A Compositor setup with utility node groups for experimenting with different background compositions, glare effects, recoloring effects, and more.
• A collection of images showcasing final renders from the demo.

🧩 Compatibility Notes

• Built with Blender 4.1.
• Configured for both the Cycles and EEVEE rendering engines.
• Should be compatible with previous versions of Blender.

📝 Usage Tips

• The top-level node group contains an input for the texture coordinate used to create a tiling map. You can use any vector here. However, it works exceptionally well with the UV coordinates of a UV-unwrapped object. And thus, that’s what the material uses as its initial default.