How to Use the COLOR RAMP Node in Blender! (Beginner Tutorial)

In this video, we talk about how to use the color ramp node to create gradient materials, maps with varying levels of roughness, wave textures, voronoi textures, and more! Want to Support The CG Essentials? http://www.patreon.com/thecgessentials Add-On Links (Affiliate Links) Scatter - http://www.thecgessentials.com/scatter Flip Fluids - http://www.thecgessentials.com/flipfluids Car and Transportation Rigged Vehicle Library - https://thecgessentials.com/Transportation City Pack Cars Rigged Car Library - https://thecgessentials.com/CityPackCars Curve Array Pro - https://thecgessentials.com/CurveArrayPro Botaniqu Tree and Grass Library - https://thecgessentials.com/Botaniq Open Street Map - https://thecgessentials.com/OSM Curve Basher - https://thecgessentials.com/CurveBasher Node Preview - https://thecgessentials.com/NodePreview Tree Vegetation Library Add On - https://thecgessentials.com/vegetation Decal Machine - https://thecgessentials.com/DecalMachine Human Generator - https://thecgessentials.com/HumanGenerator Fluent Stressless Modeling Tool - https://thecgessentials.com/Fluent Fluent Materializer Material Creation Tool - https://thecgessentials.com/FluentMaterializer Materialiq - Materials Library - https://thecgessentials.com/Materialiq Traffiq Vehicle Library - https://thecgessentials.com/Traffiq Disclaimers: all opinions are my own, sponsors are acknowledged. Product Links in the description are typically affiliate links that let you help support the channel at no extra cost. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Introduction 0:12 - What does the color ramp node do? 0:57 - Adding a color ramp node to your shader setup 2:19 - Adding different colors to the color ramp node 3:43 - Using a noise texture node to show multiple colors 4:54 - Using a texture coordinate node to adjust the color placement 5:41 - Using a color ramp node to drive roughness in a material 6:45 - Gradient Texturing based on a height (or a Z value) 8:44 - Adding multiple colors to your gradient 9:19 - Adjusting the color transition style in your gradient 10:35 - Using a color ramp node to intensify colors in a model 12:05 - Creating a wave texture 12:54 - Creating a voronoi texture 13:30 - Other Blender material tutorials