Chapter 3: Lights, Camera...

From the last chapter, you should understand some of the very specific EEVEE material techniques that you can employ in your art and design. Practicing the creation of materials will only make your art better. But there's another topic that contributes to the look of your concept as much as, if not more than, materials, and that topic is lighting. Lights influence how we see things and how we understand their interaction with other objects; our materials aren't going to even be visible if we don't add lights to our scene.

In this chapter, we're going to walk through lighting an outdoor scene with EEVEE. Cycles has multiple additions to its rendering engine that make rendering things outside a lot easier, including Global Illumination and the Nishita Sky shader. But lighting a scene in EEVEE is possible too, especially if we use the render panel to add some effects and are smart about how we use the tools that we do have.

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