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Shading, Lighting, and Rendering with Blender EEVEE

By : Sammie Crowder
Book Image

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
6
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

Technical requirements

Download the starting file of this chapter, MiniProject 2-Chapter6-Start.blend, or use the project we worked on in the last chapter to start. I want to give the choice to skip chapters, which is why I provide a starting file for each chapter, but if you worked through Chapter 5, Setting Up an Environment with Geometry Nodes, you should have a file that is ready to start from, without needing to download it from GitHub. We'll be using procedural methods to add some noise to the water in this chapter, so there are no extra files to download.

The sample files used in this chapter are available here:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Shading-Lighting-and-Rendering-with-Blenders-EEVEE/tree/main/Chapter06