Blender Procedural Sparkling Stained Glass ✨🥂

🌟 Product Overview

This product contains a Blender material for procedurally generating sparkling stained glass on an object. 

The aesthetics are inspired by the technique of using clear-coat paint to tint stained glass and the fragmented, cracked, irregular patterns of common architectural stained glass displays.

Additional flourish is created by generating procedural emission noise on the material to infuse the glass with glimmering sparkles.

The material is comprised from groups of shader nodes — making them easily configured, customized, duplicated, or extended to fit any of your needs 💪

✨ Key Features

• Customizable controls for several aspects of the material’s glass texture and sparkles ⚙️
• 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 — showcasing a the material and nodes being applied to several different objects.
  • 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.
• Configured for both the Cycles and EEVEE rendering engines — although Cycles will provide a much more optimal rendering quality for the glass.
• Should be compatible with previous versions of Blender.

📝 Usage Tips

Custom color sets for the panels are contained within their own node group. This has been included in the top-level of the node tree for visibility, and you can leverage it within the shader further down in the hierarchy: