Blender Procedural Molten Lava 🌋

🌟 Product Overview

This product contains a Blender material for procedurally generating molten lava on an object. Beyond basic Voronoi-based crack patterns, the included shaders allow for an extensive level of unique, detailed, dynamic effects that mimic the appearance of rocky, liquified, flowing magma that cools to rock on a volcano:

• Heated magma with a fiery gradient-colored emission.
• Cooled magma with wave-like ripples that would form at the edges of magma as it flows to a cooler, drier state.
• A bumpy, chipped, rocky surface jutting out from the molten magma with displacement.

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 lava and rocks ⚙️
• 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 and Geometry Nodes.
  • 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 in Blender 4.
• Configured for both the Cycles and EEVEE rendering engines — although Cycles will be required for Displacement on Blender versions earlier than 4.1.
• Should be compatible with previous versions of Blender.

📝 Usage Tips

Lava color gradients 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 Lava shader further down in the hierarchy: