Easy Environment Creation With Smooth Normals Transfer In Blender 4.5 Alpha

It seems that Thomas Marcos, whose work on Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom and custom scratched car paint shader we featured in the past, has begun a new project, demonstrating a Geometry Nodes-powered setup for smooth surface transitions, which looks handy for environment creation.

Here's a closer look at the nodes used for this solution:

As he explained, he prefers working with Cycles but still faces a noticeable black ambient occlusion line between the two meshes when using this renderer. Blender is always evolving, so it's possible this feature just hasn't been fully implemented yet. In any case, let's stay tuned to see how this project develops, and in the meantime, check out Thomas' recently released free procedural clouds shader:

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