Dessert Sand | Blender Procedural Material

£5.00

Bring your scenes to life with the warmth and realism of this fully procedural Dessert Sand Material for Blender. Whether you’re building vast desert landscapes, sunny beachscapes, or stylized animation terrain, this shader is built to deliver natural-looking results without image textures.

Customize grain scale, color tone, wind ripple effects, and surface roughness to suit any scene, from dry dunes to damp shorelines.

Features:

  • 100% procedural – no image textures

  • Adjustable grain size, color, and bump detail

  • Optional wind ripple and layered surface effects

  • Seamless and tileable on any mesh

  • Great for environments, stylized terrain, or real-time scenes

  • Compatible with both Cycles & Eevee

Create natural, believable terrain in seconds with the Sand shader, smooth, subtle, and endlessly customizable.
Note: Optimized for Cycles. Results may vary in Eevee.

Bring your scenes to life with the warmth and realism of this fully procedural Dessert Sand Material for Blender. Whether you’re building vast desert landscapes, sunny beachscapes, or stylized animation terrain, this shader is built to deliver natural-looking results without image textures.

Customize grain scale, color tone, wind ripple effects, and surface roughness to suit any scene, from dry dunes to damp shorelines.

Features:

  • 100% procedural – no image textures

  • Adjustable grain size, color, and bump detail

  • Optional wind ripple and layered surface effects

  • Seamless and tileable on any mesh

  • Great for environments, stylized terrain, or real-time scenes

  • Compatible with both Cycles & Eevee

Create natural, believable terrain in seconds with the Sand shader, smooth, subtle, and endlessly customizable.
Note: Optimized for Cycles. Results may vary in Eevee.

FAQs

  • This material is optimized for Cycles. It may display in Eevee, but some visual fidelity, like micro-surface reflections and bump detail, may not translate accurately.
    Note: Use Cycles for best results.

  • Desert Sand is compatible with Blender 3.0 and newer. It takes advantage of modern shader nodes for greater realism and flexibility.

  • Yes, since it’s 100% procedural, it is completely seamless and scaleable, making it ideal for close-up renders, large environments, and product shots.

  • Absolutely. The shader includes adjustable parameters for features like roughness, bump intensity, grain scale, and color tint, giving you full creative control.

  • No plugins are required. This material is built entirely with native Blender nodes and is plug-and-play — just append or drag it into your project.

  • You can either append the material from the .blend file or copy it into your shader editor using Blender’s Asset Browser or manual node setup. A readme file is included for quick setup guidance.