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Shading, Lighting, and Rendering with Blender's EEVEE : Learn How to Create and Iterate Amazing Concept Art Using a Real-Time Rendering Engine
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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 c...
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.
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2022
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024
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- 1 online resource (374 pages)
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- 9781803239620, 180323962X, 1803230967
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- on1312166485
- Chapter 10: Working with Irradiance Volumes and Cubemaps for More Accurate Rendering.
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Section 1: Configuring in EEVEE - Mini-Project 1 - Stylized Scene -- Chapter 1: Introducing EEVEE - A Real-Time Rendering Engine -- Technical requirements -- What is EEVEE? EEVEE as a rendering engine -- Why use EEVEE and what are the advantages of using EEVEE? -- Limitations of EEVEE -- Setting up - configuring the start of mini-projects -- File structure -- An overview of the mini-projects -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Creating Materials Fast with EEVEE -- Technical requirements -- Materials in EEVEE -- Why materials are a little different in EEVEE -- Quickly previewing lighting ideas for fast iteration -- Creating our first image-based material -- Two-click Principled Setup -- Shader to RGB -- Creating our first procedural texture -- The base mesh -- Texture creation with procedural nodes -- Adding shading to the material -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Lights, Camera... -- Technical requirements -- Adding lighting to our mini-project -- World lighting system -- Changing to the world shader editor -- Changing the HDRI to fit our scene -- Adding lights to our scene -- Creating and configuring cameras -- Adding a camera -- Camera properties -- Learning about the Line Art modifier -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Non-Physical Rendering -- Technical requirements -- Adding clouds to our composition -- Configuring Render settings -- Sampling -- Ambient Occlusion -- Bloom -- Screen Space Reflections -- Film -- Compositing Render layers -- Final compositing -- Summary -- Section 2: Real-Time Rendering - Mini-Project 2 - Creating a Realistic Environment Concept -- Chapter 5: Setting Up an Environment with Geometry Nodes -- Technical requirements -- Setting up the scene - adding grass and rocks to the Asset Browser -- Setting up the scene - adding grass and rocks
- Adding more complexity and applying the modifier to other objects -- Adding rocks to the node tree -- Customizing our Geometry Nodes system -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Screen Space Reflections - Adding Reflection to the Water -- Technical requirements -- Screen space reflections -- Light probes - reflection planes -- Advanced water - volume and transparency -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Faking Camera Effects for Better Renders -- Technical requirements -- Atmospheric lighting -- Bloom -- Ambient occlusion -- Depth of field -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Using Alphas for Details -- Technical requirements -- Adding detail to the scene (with birds!) -- Faking volumetric mist -- Using an image to create a background -- Summary -- Section 3: Advanced Features - Mini-Project 3 - Creating a Sci-Fi Concept -- Chapter 9: Lighting an Interior Scene -- Technical requirements -- Troubleshooting a common lighting error -- Designing the lighting for our interior -- Previewing render passes to inform our lighting decisions -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Working with Irradiance Volumes and Cubemaps for More Accurate Rendering -- Technical requirements -- Implementing an Irradiance Volume -- Implementing a Reflection Cubemap -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Kitbashing - Adding Details Fast -- Technical requirements -- Kitbashing with small objects -- Using Geometry Nodes to create sci-fi panels -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Special Effects with EEVEE - Fire and Smoke -- Technical requirements -- Creating fire with Quick Smoke -- Tweaking the shader for fire and smoke in EEVEE -- Optimal EEVEE render settings for the smoke and fire -- How to combine renders in Cycles and EEVEE -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Exploring the Wide World of Blender -- Technical requirements -- Review of the main concepts covered in this book -- Further reading (or watching) -- Learning more about: Geometry Nodes
- Learning more about: The Asset Browser -- Learning more about: Physics simulations -- Learning more about: Character animation -- Learning more about: Modeling -- Learning more about: Materials -- Learning more about: The Grease Pencil -- Learning more about: Sculpting -- Learning more about: Scripting -- Add-ons for further improving your workflow -- Free -- Paid -- Further projects to tackle -- Environments -- Characters -- Grease Pencil -- Studies -- Summary -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy