Smartify Nodes - Easy Smart Materials & Effects

by Loïc Bramoullé in Surfacing


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This item has an average rating of 5 from 14 ratings by the community.

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  • Hanterdro
    20 days ago

    Very useful nodes, but still lacking after one year a documentation and updates.
    The project currently seems to be on hold.

    • LOIC BRAMOULLE

      19 days ago

      Thanks for your review, and sorry the Notion writen documentation is still only half done, I need to find time to finish it. But I'm working on lots of profesionnal projects, short films/cinematics and conceprt art, using Smartify quite a bit, some scifi enviros I've textured entirely with synched smart effects.
      I did produce a few tutorials on specific nodes on the Youtube recently, each time someone asked on the Discord, where I usually answer same day & thoroughly.
      Hopefully I can soon create more content for it.
      Thanks again.

  • Steve J
    4 months ago

    This is fantastic set of shaders, node groups and utilities. It's so deep and extensive, I've barely scratched the surface. You do need to dig and learn how to use it properly, but the results are terrific.

    • LOIC BRAMOULLE

      4 months ago

      Thanks a lot, I plan to improve the documentation (current youtube & notion page) as soon as I have more time, but I tried to make sure every node and slider has an easy-to-understand name and function.

  • sonicchuck
    6 months ago

    Every once in a while I come across a new Blender tool that completely changes and enhances my workflow. Smartify Nodes is absolutely one of those tools. These node groups are so well designed and user friendly. I'm in love with this product and will be using it daily. Thank you!!

    • LOIC BRAMOULLE

      6 months ago

      Lovely to hear ! I spent a lot of time iterating on slider names and connections organization so that all nodes are as easy as possible to read if you want to customize them from inside too. Thanks !

  • funksy
    10 months ago

    Very nice set of powerful node groups for quick procedural material creation.

    User experience is not the greatest though and unfortunately the documentation and tutorials are lacking. Considering there are roughly 50 different node groups, I'd appreciate a more comprehensive and better structured documentation on how to use the nodes from scratch. The YouTube videos aren't helpful. They merely demo what you CAN do with the nodes and not HOW. And in the one video that kind of goes into creating materials from scratch, the author just speedruns through it.

    Also, the Discord link is broken. Says "invite is invalid".

    So buyer beware: You're going to have to figure out how to use these yourself.

    • LOIC BRAMOULLE

      10 months ago

      Thanks for the review ! I'm in the process of improving the documentation, you might have seen on the Notion page (in documentation tab) that I've started to build a list of all the nodes with a description. I've also started doing videos on specific nodes, here yesterday I added a 8 minutes videos going over each slider of the Edge mask node:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHHOaMgPmMg&t=1s&ab_channel=lo%C3%AFcbramoull%C3%A9
      I will try to redo some of the initial videos like the one where I build smart mat from scratch, with more clarity and less speed.
      For the Discord link I just saw that it had a default expiration of 7 days, Discord probably added that recently as it didn't expire after 7 days previously, here is an eternal one: https://discord.gg/n9NnWf97gP (updating it in all places now)
      I've answered all user questions within a day over there.
      Thanks again !

  • blended99
    11 months ago

    What have you Done !!
    I spent 2.5h to make a material, because the literally endless variations with subtle changes to sometimes just one value got me totally hooked. Can't wait to see more.

    • LOIC BRAMOULLE

      11 months ago

      Thanks !

  • Christer Andersén
    12 months ago

    Great addon! Fun and educational at the same time. The results are first class.

    • LOIC BRAMOULLE

      12 months ago

      Thanks a lot ! yes that's definitely something I was after, having all nodes organized elegantly, so anyone can read what's happening inside, and customize them if need be.

  • Radiant Mantra
    12 months ago

    This is an amazing set of node groups, they look great and are highly customizable.
    This is quite honestly a steal, and I can't recommend it enough.

    • LOIC BRAMOULLE

      12 months ago

      So lovely to hear, thanks a lot!

  • Oliver Beck
    12 months ago

    Fantastic addon. Looking forward to future updates!

    • LOIC BRAMOULLE

      12 months ago

      More materials, coming right up ^^

  • ryo
    12 months ago

    This addon has very strong potential.

    I'm intermediate Blender user and concept artist.
    I would be very happy if you could expand the variety of Masks for people like me.

    • LOIC BRAMOULLE

      12 months ago

      Hi Ryo, thanks for the review. Concept-art and simplicity is definitely the angle I took with Smartify. We can talk about smart-masks on the discord, curious if you have any suggestion.

  • Andy Redwood
    12 months ago

    Fantastic! It's like if Sanctus and Fluent Materializer had a baby, and that baby was awesome. Seriously, buy this addon, support this guy, and let's hope he updates it with regular goodies. Thanks for creating, Loïc!

    • LOIC BRAMOULLE

      12 months ago

      So lovely to hear ! Yes my goal is very much to keep polishing Smartify as I keep using it for my concept & filmmaking work. Mostly adding content, texture-set, materials, effects, while improving the documentation/tutorials to be as clear as possible.

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  • $18 Smartify Nodes (full)

    The full Library to Smartify your Materials, including Updates.

  • $6 Smartify Nodes LITE

    6 core Smart Effects/Materials + Lite nodes to create your own + full (80) texture set library. (+ upgrade to full for 12$)

  • $0 Free Trial blend files.

    2 Example scenes: Simple + Advanced, working in Eevee & Cycles.

  • $100 Teams / Studio

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Published about 1 year ago
Blender Version 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2
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