From the course: Blender: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

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Wood floor textures

Wood floor textures

- [Instructor] In this week's Blender's Tips, Tricks, and Techniques, we're going to talk about how to make a wood floor using cycles nodes, plus we're going to look at a new add-on, the node wrangler. Let's turn it on real quick by going to File, User Preferences, clicking on Add-Ons. Type in Node Wrangler. Click this checkbox, and then click on Hotkey List. And if you scroll through all of this, you can see some amazing shortcuts that the node wrangler will add so that while you're inside the node editor, you can do things a lot faster. Click Save User Settings, and exit out. And let's switch this to Cycles Render, kill this cube, and kill this lamp. Now I'm going to add a plane, with Shift A. Plane, scale it up, Shift A again, monkey. Bring him up, rotate him a little, scale. There you go, so he's intersecting a little. Next, Shift A, go to Lamp, and add a sun, and let's make sure that this sun is pointing in this direction. And then I'm going to come over here to this little menu,…

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