Realistic Procedural Lava Material

A realistic procedural lava material in Blender. It comes as a custom node group with 3 inputs:

1. Temperature

2. Seed

3. Emission Strength

Temperature

The temperature affects the colour of the material as well as the hot lava to cold rock ratio. The higher you set the temperature, the brighter the lava will get, the less rock you will see in the lava, and the object will expand. Lower the temperature, more rock, less lava, object shrinks. This is what makes this material hyper-realistic.

Seed

If you change the seed input, the shape will change.

Emission Strength

Emission strength controls the brightness of the lava. Keep in mind that due to the Cycles render engine, higher emission strength will affect the colour of the lava.

You can animate all of these properties.

To import the material into your Blender projects:

• Go to File > Append

• Locate the lava material file and double click it.

• Then go to Materials > material_lava

You will then be able to use the material in your project.

NOTE:

The material does not work in the Eevee render engine, it will only work with Cycles.