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Lighting, materials, textures and various cheats are the subject of this in-depth Blender Cycles intro from BlenderDiplom.com
submitted: 5 years and 2951 days ago
The Preview panel gives a quick visualization of the active material and its properties, including its Shaders, Ramps, Mirror Transp properties and Textures. It provides many useful shapes that are very useful for designing new shaders: for some shaders (like those based Ramp colors or a Diffuse shader like Minnaert), one needs fairly complex or specific previewing shapes to decide if the shader-in-design achieves its goal.
submitted: 5 years and 3694 days ago