Questions tagged [eevee-render-engine]
EEVEE is a GPU based realtime engine for the viewport implemented for Blender version 2.8, using industry standard PBR (physically based rendering).
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Control Cycles/Eevee material nodes and material properties using python?
How can I define the different properties of an Cycles/Eevee material? Such things as glossy, glass, diffuse, RGB-color, emissive via python scripting?
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EEVEE and Cycles render lighting differences
I get different lightning render with the same scene camera setup.
Cycles render (both experimental and supported feature set) gets weaker lightning and needs more energy.
How can I get the same ...
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How to make mesh lights work in Blender Eevee?
The closest I can get to making mesh lights affect their environment in Blender Eevee is giving them an Emission material and turning on "Bloom". But this isn't emitting proper light, it just looks ...
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How to tile textures in Cycles?
I just recently got into the nodes system, my knowledge on the subject is limited.
I can't seem to find out how to tile textures using my current node setup, because it doesn't tile the them on its ...
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How does EEVEE work?
We all know what Cycles is, at least to a first approximation: Cycles is
a path tracing engine [...] Specifically, cycles is a "backwards" path tracer, which means that it traces light rays ...
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How do I get proper reflections (Eevee)?
I added my modelled car into an Eevee scene and for some reason, it refuses to render. When I try to render a white box appears around the car instead of the reflections. I have tried all the settings ...
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Objects, shadows and reflections not rendering in EEVEE
I started to work with EEVEE short time ago and I was amazed by the capabilities of this engine. However, I noticed something strange when I was rendering some tests. Some objects/reflections/shadows ...
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How to get silhouette with contour
For an architectural visualization, I would like to use MakeHuman models, but:
Only get them to render white with a black outline (on reflection surface too, if possible).
Interact with light like ...
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Using "Material Preview" HDRI in Renders?
I know that I can use default HDRI maps in Rendered mode in Blender right now, but the problem is when I wan to render the image by F12 (or render movie), my settings are changed to use "scene ...
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Images as emitters constantly come out dull. White emission not actually white. What am I doing wrong?
I have been using Blender for a while but keep hitting this problem that I don't understand. First of all, I don't understand why I white emission shader set to pure white is not actually white ...
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Does transparency work in eevee
I have been trying to create a transparent lens using the eevee rendering engine in 2.8 but the transparency slider has no effect. Has this feature not been implemented yet? I've looked all over the ...
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Why doesn't Volumetric follow the shape of Mesh in Eevee?
So I was in the middle of making a ball-shaped smoke, but the volumetric effect didn't work following the basic shape. It remains cube in Eevee Blender 2.8; while in Cycle it works, but in Cycle it ...
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My glass material isn't transparent in Eevee
When using Eevee, an object with a glass material (in this case: Principled BSDF, trasmission set to 1.0) doesn't seem like it can be looked through: it's completely opaque.
See for instance the ...
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What is LookDev/Material Preview mode for in 2.8?
I am struggling to understand what is LookDev/Material Preview mode for and how do I render an image which I see in this mode into a picture or video.
I tweaked my material to look how I want in ...
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Can't see a glass object through another glass object in Eevee
I was just testing Eevee and found that you cannot view a glass object through another glass. Is there any workaround? It works fine only If I rotate the glass window or put my camera to the back side ...
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How do the new light probes in EEVEE work?
I've been experimenting with Blender's new EEVEE render engine, and so far have failed to get the realistic results I'm aiming for.
I've seen some online tutorials and articles about the assets under ...
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Sun object not moving when Rendering Animation
I've problem Rendering sun rotation animation. Steps to reproduce:
Create the sun object
Set 1st keyframe
Select keyframe
Rotate sun object using the handle
"I" > Select Rotation
Set 10th keyframe (...
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Particles in render not matching preview (Blender 2.8)
I have implemented two identical particle emitters back to back so that i get a looping animation depicting low-poly smoke. I use a blend texture to resize the particles as they go through their life. ...
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EEVEE rendering materials don't work [duplicate]
I'm new to Blender and I was getting hooked on this program. I was working on a project using the viewport shading set to Rendered with the EEVEE render engine because I don't have a very powerful ...
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DirectX vs. OpenGL normal maps
I'm curious which type of normal map works better? DirectX or OpenGL normal maps? Which one to use for cycles and eevee?
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What's the purpose of the EEVEE rendering engine?
Is it an alternative to Cycles, or just for the 3D viewport?
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Blender Eevee how to render Bloom effect when using transparent background
I need to render Bloom effect while using a transparent background, I need to save PNG sequence with RGBA, when I do this, the Bloom effect is being removed by the transparency since it falls outside ...
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EEVEE Glass Shader
I am in rendered view in the viewport and my glass shader isn't working correctly. I remember a couple months ago I was making glass for a ship and these settings are the only thing I had to mess ...
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Blender 2.8 - AWS EC2 command line EEVEE render
I have been trying to get this to work for a couple days now. I have an EC2 P2 instance with NVIDIA CUDA configured by default, its a Deep learning Ubuntu AMI. This OS does not have a GUI so ...
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Screen Space Reflections in EEVEE
I am struggling with understanding screen space reflections in EEVEE.
I am aware of the excellent answer to this question, however, this only talks about when an object is off screen entirely.
Maybe ...
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Is there a Cycles equivalent to Eevee's Bloom Option?
Is there any equivalent option or process to get results equal, similar or better than Eevee's Bloom? If yes, how could I do it? I have an object with Emission Surface on Material in that case it is ...
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Animating Dynamic Paint with noise texture
so I'm trying to recreate this effect
https://twitter.com/Erisdraw3D/status/1056931358185086976
and I've gotten as far as having the white area around a rock, but I've been struggling with animating ...
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Why is 'Shader to RGB' possible in EEVEE, but not in Cycles?
As a result of @Michael Macha 's comments on, and helpful edit of, this answer, it turns out my understanding of the differences between EEVEE and Cycles is a lot fuzzier than I thought it was. I get ...
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Portal effect in EEVEE?
So I'm trying to make a portal effect for an animation, and unfortunately the only way i know of for doing this effect is by using layers and the compositor in 2.79, which were replaced with the ...
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Basic Shade problem in Eevee (light strip shows where it shouldn't) version 2.9x
I have another shade problem in Eevee which I couldn't find a solution or reference: when I put some vertical plane on a horizontal one (or extend the horizontal to add a vertical one) and light them, ...
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EEVEE 2.8 : the light goes through the egdes of a simple cube?
The scene : a simple cube with the front face deleted, and a simple light behind the cube.
The light could be seen inside the cube. It comes through the edges !
How to prevent this ? Thanks a lot !
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How to set two different HDRI, one for environment lighting, and another for background, in 2.8 using Eevee? [duplicate]
I figured out how to use a normal image as the background while using an HDRI for environmental lighting. But I can't figure out how to use a different HDRI as the background.
Please note I already ...
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How can i render the reflections i see in the Look Dev viewport in Blender 2.8
i'm finding blender 2.8 confusing and i'm relatively new to blender in general anyway. While looking at my model in the Look Dev view port i can see reflections.
However, when i render my scene in ...
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Alpha Channel in Eevee?
Apologies in advance for the Eevee question... but!...now that the releases are getting more stable, I'm messing around with it and wondering if anyone has gotten an alpha channel/transparency mix ...
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True displacement in EEVEE?
I have a Blender 2.8 scene with animated true displacement. It is created using material nodes and works fine in Cycles. However, EEVEE doesn't displace my meshes truly, only normals are changed. Is ...
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Render solid color in Eevee
I wan't to create a segmentation map for machine learning.
For that I have a list of colors like:
clouds #aaaaaa
cow #4f445b
grass #1dc331
It is from ...
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Simulating a 40W Light Bulb
Let's say I have a light bulb at home that I want to add as a light source.
Specs:
40W incandescent light bulb
5cm in diameter
Color temperature of 2700 kelvin
What values should I enter into ...
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Will EEVEE eliminate the need for cycles and rendering? [closed]
So I have been seeing a lot lately about EEVEE, and even though it is in early development it still seems really powerful. What I'm interested in is will it just eliminate the need for having cycles ...
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In Blender 2.8, how do I light an EEVEE scene with an HDR?
Blender 2.8 supports the same world node setup that Cycles does. This correctly puts the HDR image in the world background.
But EEVEE doesn't light the scene properly. Everything looks flat and ...
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How to create a chrome texture?
Is it possible to get that typical chrome-like angled look using the Shader Editor? I see a lot of tutorials making chrome on all types of surfaces but not on a knob geometry like the one in the ...
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How do I fix weird clipping glitch on my Object with Image Texture? [duplicate]
I am currently working in Blender in Eevee and getting a really weird glitch where I can see random faces of my object in front of the faces I should be seeing. For example, in the image below, I can ...
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Rendering and lighting issues in blender eevee under linux
I am experiencing some weird lighting And rendering issues on blender under Linux.
This is what I get on Linux:
And this is what I am supposed to get:
My OS is Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon with Linux ...
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Render looks darker than Look Dev mode [duplicate]
I have been texture painting in look dev mode. But when i try to render it, everything looks very dark. I have 3 sun lights in my scene, ambient turned on in Eevee settings. What am i missing? I ...
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In 2.8, Blender crashes while rendering trees
I'm trying to render a scene and in both render engines it crashes right before it would start making the image. I thought trees were the issue so i tested the render without them, but it crashed ...
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Material is stretching when using Edge Loop
I am creating a character for didatic reason, and when I started to work with the material, it was stretched between where I had edge loop.
The issue is easily reproduced using a cylinder, with a ...
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How to render with transparent background in Eevee?
Is it possible to render with transparent background using Eevee renderer?
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Render button missing in Blender 2.8
So either Google doesn't have the answer, or I didn't know what to search for. But I don't see the render button on the right side of the screen. Every tutorial I see says that I'll find it there, but ...
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How can I get HDRI shadows in an Eevee scene? [duplicate]
I'm currently testing Eevee. Seems so promising !
Here, i'm trying to make my Eevee render the closest I can to my previous render Cycles of the same scene.
This scene do not have any lights but an ...
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Can you render using the CPU with Eevee
Is there a way to render things in eevee using the CPU or is it just a GPU render engine?
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How to hide object but keep shadow in EEVEE?
This is very easy to do in Cycles, just have to click on the camera checkbox.
I cant figure out how to do this in EEVEE.
Any help would be appreciated.
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