• Jeroen

  about 2 months ago

  One of the best buys I made here!

  These nodes are the perfect set of tools to add dust, snow, moss, etc. to entire scenes or parts of scenes at once.
  What takes days to accomplish in Substance Painter takes minutes with these nodes. And not only that, the effects are also easy to alter afterwards without the hassle of changing, exporting en connecting new UV maps and all the other time consuming stuff that you have to do for every single item in your scene.

  These nodes put an end to that misery and that is very awesome!

  ...and great support too. Loic answered my question about where to put a certain node with screenshots which made it very clear right away.

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  LOIC BRAMOULLE

  about 2 months ago

  Amazing, yes that's exactly what motivated me the most to develop smartify, having substance like materials but applied to entire scenes, so objects materials can interact in real time with each other as you build your worlds.
  Will try to polish the documentation asap as it's long overdue. Questions are answered usually whthin a day on the discord too.
• brent3d

  3 months ago

  Brilliant nodes! "The CG Essentials" on YouTube has a good walkthrough of them. I just love this type of workflow, great work.

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  LOIC BRAMOULLE

  about 2 months ago

  Thanks a lot !
• Hanterdro

  4 months ago

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

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  LOIC BRAMOULLE

  4 months 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

  7 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.

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  LOIC BRAMOULLE

  7 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

  9 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!!

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  LOIC BRAMOULLE

  9 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

  about 1 year 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.

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  LOIC BRAMOULLE

  about 1 year 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

  about 1 year 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.

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  LOIC BRAMOULLE

  about 1 year ago

  Thanks !
• Christer Andersén

  about 1 year ago

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

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  LOIC BRAMOULLE

  about 1 year 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

  about 1 year 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.

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  LOIC BRAMOULLE

  about 1 year ago

  So lovely to hear, thanks a lot!
• Oliver Beck

  about 1 year ago

  Fantastic addon. Looking forward to future updates!

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  LOIC BRAMOULLE

  about 1 year ago

  More materials, coming right up ^^

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