Five Shader Tips Every Blender Artist Should Know 

For snow, you can also use a 'normal' node and 'seperate xyz' using the z axis to have it update live instead of having to apply object rotation.

The blinking lights - genius!

For randomization, random per island becomes unavailable for objects with a bevel modifier. In this case I will UV Unwrap "Project from view (bounds)" (from any angle, doesn't matter), select all in UV editor, then scale all around individual origins to zero. White noise node (which I'd use anyway) will require a vector snap 0.001 or something low, or it will produce gibberish. White noise node -> separate colors, both RGB and HSV: R and G (but scaled up) I use to control UV offset similar to yours. B either controls noise offset that also goes into UV offset, or random rotation value (none may be applicable to floorboards, but it has its uses elsewhere). H is used to mirror (* -1) nothing, U only, V only, or both axis. V is used to produce varying shades of the albedo. Since R and G are scaled up for the offset purpose, in raw form they can remapped pre-scale individually and used to scale the UVs for further randomization. Say 0-1 -> 0.8-1.2. If this *STILL* isn't enough to reduce/eliminate texture repeats, I'll start mixing several versions of the same texture setup above using noise to determine which one shows. I'm not a fan of the voronoi warp method as that create sharp transitions in the coordinates which will mess up bumps. As for the dust normal, often applying rotation is unavailable (i.e. due modifiers). Texture Coordinates/Normal is orientation specific, whereas Geometry/Normal is world specific. If you want to control the normal, instead of separate.Z, try the dot output from the normal node instead. Allows you to *set* the direction directly.

I really like the fact that you can use the pen on the touchpad as well as the screen. Most of the time I prefer having my hand down on my graphic tablet. Well done ASUS. The wheel is super helpful too.

This is very useful. Thanks.

Thank you Blender Lord for your presence.

Extremely helpful. Thank you!

I've also had excellent results using the world position of the object rather than the random or the per-island. Works especially well when you want the same seamless procedural textures on multiple instances of similar models (e.g., brick or plaster walls of a house, roof tiles, etc). You can also run the random output through a white noise node and modify the W for different nodes. That'll avoid the effect where every Drackula book is black, for example. I'm loving the light effects on the ferris wheel.

Great tutorial, thanks for addressing these illusive challenges.

These are pure gold tips! Thank you very much! =)

Some really interesting stuff here. Definitely gave me some ideas.Thanks for sharing!

Only one word bro, amazing!!! 👏🏻🔥

Great ! We can also use a driver (exemple : #frame/2) to modify the UV coordinates !

Rather than making the UV super small you could also combine the last two techniques and add a snap node so they always occupy one colour.

Absolute boss.

Gold, thank you!

Great tips Rob, thanks a lot!

I think white noise is better at generating random numbers(also normalized b/w 0 to 1) we can use random from object info and feed it to white noise node to get the random offset.

cool tips thank you!

Very nice tips

Thank you!

Great tips.

THANK YOU

Muy buen canal, me gusta como explicas todo. Gracias

Good one, very helpful. Thanks! Your library expample shows a problem that I have for a long time: You only have one single random number per object. That's why all the Dracula books share the same color. I wish there would be a real random number node in the shader nodes (like there is now for geometry nodes)....

I liked the previous thumbnail so much...

Very usefull. More tools for my toolbox

Great tutorial! For the books i know there's a way of randomizing the scale/shape using using shaders or drivers on the shape keys but i can't figure it out. If you knew I'd be very grateful 🙏🙏

*The last one gave me some Ian Hubert vibes.*

is it just me or putting a touchscreen on a notebook where every time you touch it it wiggles on the hinge a bad idea

I was like number 999. Because that’s how I roll

Thats useful. thanks!

Very cool indeed.