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Shading, Lighting, and Rendering with Blender EEVEE

By : Sammie Crowder
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Shading, Lighting, and Rendering with Blender EEVEE

By: Sammie Crowder

Overview of this book

Blender is the most important up-and-coming 3D software package in the world. EEVEE, a state-of-the-art real-time rendering engine is a fairly new addition to Blender and provides the capacity to create artwork at blazing speed, almost 12 times faster than Cycles. Lighting, Shading, and Rendering with Blender’s EEVEE provides a high-level overview of what EEVEE is capable of, then teaches users about Geometry Nodes, Rendering Techniques, using shortcuts like Kitbashing and Alphas to speed up scene creation, volumetrics, reflections, adding lights, cameras and even special effects like fire and smoke, all in EEVEE. All of this is in the context of creating actual scenes that readers will work through from start to finish. By the time a Blender Artist completes the book, they will have created three separate works that have challenged them to iterate and design with the full power of Blender’s EEVEE.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Configuring in EEVEE – Mini-Project 1 – Stylized Scene
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Section 2: Real-Time Rendering – Mini-Project 2 – Creating a Realistic Environment Concept
11
Section 3: Advanced Features – Mini-Project 3 – Creating a Sci-Fi Concept

Learning about the Line Art modifier

A quick, cool effect to add further interest to the house in the sky we're building is the Line Art modifier. This is a brand-new modifier that was added with the past release of 2.93. Previously, there was a postprocessing ability to add lines to the geometry of your objects, but now we can actually see that in the viewport; so, let's give it a try and see whether we can push this house we're working on to be a little more stylized. The Line Art modifier only works if you already have a camera in the scene, so that's why we're adding the Line Art modifier now.

The Line Art modifier only works with a Grease Pencil object, so let's add a Collection Line Art object to the scene.

Figure 3.24: Collection Line Art modifier

Side Note

Shift + A is the shortcut for the Add menu, something that I recommend you use instead of the more laborious Add button on the menu bar.

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