Crystal Kit - 3D Asset Kit

Crystal Kit - 3D Asset Kit

-Description-

This Crystal Kit is a Geometry Node Group for Blender that creates realistic crystal growth in your scenes and on your assets.

The Geo Nodes allow for a natural distribution of Crystals and handle all necessary shader functionality to build loads of mineral variations directly from the node group properties. No need for manual shader editing, even though you can of course still do this.

Seven base mineral geometry families can quickly be combined with seven different crystal shaders to get 47 combinations right on the spot. Additionally you can vary material properties like Color, Lightness, Roughness, etc. for each crystal modifier separately. Let your creativity flow, the possible combinations are endless.

The crystals are automatically scattered on your asset. Change properties like position, the formation of crystal patches / islands, random rotation, sizes, etc. to achieve the look you have in mind. This result can be controlled with curve based proximity painting and be turned into a growth animation, manually and even automatically.

All shaders are Cycles based and come with textures up to 8K which allow for very close shots.

Please note that the crystal materials have longer render times then average non-refractive, non-volumetric materials.

In addition to the Crystal Kit Geometry Nodes in the Scene you will find Examples included, as well as the HDR and light setup from the previs renderings.

For further Information please watch the Tutorial

and check out the Documentation.

-Content-

Scenes:

CrystalKit_AK.blend (Contains Geo Nodes, Manual Workflow Assets and Examples)

Meshes:

• Cr_01_TrigonalQuartz (18 Types)
• Cr_02_HexagonalTourmaline (10 Types)
• Cr_03_TrigonalCalcite (8 Types)
• Cr_04_CubicPyrite (10 Types)
• Cr_05_CubicGarnet (10 Types)
• Cr_06_Sperical_Botryoidal (10 Types)
• Cr_07_Base_Quartz (4 Types)

Textures:

• BaseColor / Albedo
• Normal GL
• Normal DX
• Roughness - PBR Metal/Roughness Workflow
• Metallic - wherever necessary
• ARM = Ambient Occlusion + Roughness +Metallic in RGB Channels
• Curvature, for further shading
• Thickness, for further shading

Base Materials: (Which can be edited directly from the Blender GeoNodes Interface to vary greatly in look)

• Quartz
• Mountain Crystal: Great for clear variants of Amethyst, Flourite, Saphire, Emerald, etc.
• Calcite: Great for diffuse variants of Amethyst, Flourite, Saphire, Emerald, etc.
• Pyrite: Can be used for any metal type mineral such as Gold, Silver, Platinum and Osmium.
• Hematite: Can easily be turned in to opaque minerals like Obsidian, Limonite and Smoky Quartz
• Garnet: Great for creating raw types of Emerald, Ruby, Saphire and the like
• Tourmaline: Great for all types of Tourmaline and fancy looking crystals.

Textures additional:

• HDR Environment

Blender Utillity:

• Geometry Nodes Setup “AK_CrystalKit_GeoNodes”
  

Enjoy rendering!