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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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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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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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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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 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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blender 2.8 switch between cycles and eevee
I know 2.8 is not yet released.
However I am at the limits of what blender 2.79 can do.
So I wonder how to set the recent 2.8 builds into cycles mode?
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Do EEVEE samples have any effect when rendering?
Do EEVEE samples really matter when rendering?
Can't really see a difference except for render time
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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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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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How to render with transparent background in Eevee?
Is it possible to render with transparent background using Eevee renderer?
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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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How to handle thousands of lights
I'm trying to create a night-time city in Blender 3.2. For streetlights I've tried two approaches with geometry nodes:
Instance lots of balls with an emissive texture.
Instance actual point lights.
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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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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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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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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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Are render results hardware dependent?
I have a technical question, which maybe someone with a render engine coding background can answer:
Assume we give two PCs with fairly different hardware specs (e.g. one has a dedicated graphics card ...
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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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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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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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Make an object not cast a shadow in eevee
Is there a way to make a single object not cast shadows in Eevee?
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Is it possible to create seamless repeating noise in 3D
I'm very familiar with the following nodes for creating a 2D seamless repeating loop within procedural noise. I have been unable to find a method for repeating in 3 dimensions, this would be ...
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procedurally generated mold (fungus) using voronoi texture?
I have been trying to recreate a good looking procedural mold texture for a bit now.
I have found the best approach to creating the actual round shape of the mold patches seen in the pic seem to be ...
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Hair Shape in Eevee
I'm trying to make a Christmas Tree in Blender 2.8 using the new Eevee Render Engine, I used a Particle System to make the little green pines.
In the Cycles Render Engine I could change the ...
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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 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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How to create an air distortion/blur effect in eevee?
I would like to recreate an air distortion/blur effect like the ones seen in marvel vs capcom 3 to give more "punch" to my animations (images attached to give an idea of what im looking for)
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Visualizing 3D voxel data in Blender 2.8
right now I'm trying to visualize my scientific 3D data in Blender 2.8. So blenders built in textures or smoke simulations do not lead to the goal.
I've read that older releases of Blender do support ...
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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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What is the impact of polygons that are not part of the final image when rendering?
When rendering, does Blender calculate and render polygons that are hidden to the camera?
For example, you have some rocks, some in front of others, does the program render those polygons that are in ...
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I'm lost in the shader editor
Everytime I hold scroll on my mouse to move, it like somehow teleports down and I have to scroll up again. THis time, it was WAY WORSE, as it went too far down and now I can't find my nodes
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How can I create a 3D spacetime grid animation?
I want to make this kind of animation GIF.
It has to work in Eevee with multiple objects. Unfortunately I couldn't do it via wireframes modifier and proportional editing. Do you have any suggestions?
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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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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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Is there an alternative to Random per Island for EEVEE?
I am trying to find a way to have random values assigned to each tile so that I can add a variation to the material later.
Using the Geometry Node's ...
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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 can I hide hidden topology with a hologram shader?
I have a hologram shader that is mapped out like this in Eevee 2.9:
I've tried toggling Backface culling and other options. However, I still have a good of unseen topology being rendered through my ...
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Do nodes in EEVEE work the same as in Cycles?
I played a bit with nodes that I have a basic idea how they work but not much more than that, so I have to learn much more about it.
I know Blender Render uses different nodes than Cycles. As of now ...
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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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Refract grease pencil object?
so I'm trying to use the new 2.8 Update to do a grease pencil animation behind a dirty glass window in Eevee, but the grease pencil object does not get refracted or effected at all by the glass shader,...
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how to write a custom projection type?
Is it possible to create a lens shader with EEVEE/Cycles ?
I'd like to have the control over the camera position and the ray direction per sample. This allows to simulate various conventional lens ...
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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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Will it soon be possible to render an Eevee animation in realtime (2.8 Beta)?
What I tried:
Most available tutorials
Some render / file format settings
The result: A 2 minutes long animation that plays fine in realtime takes a day or two to render on a GTX 1080.
There's no ...
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How do I fade in/out an object in Blender 2.8 Eevee?
I'm kinda new to using Blender Eevee. I used to use Cycles, but that took too long to render. I'm doing a text animation with a video in the background, and I want the text to fade in and fade out. ...
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Ambient Occlusion node in EEVEE not working
So I am using Blender 2.8, and I cannot seem to get the Ambient Occlusion node to work in EEVEE. I realize it is in beta, so it could just be a bug in 2.8, but I have seen other people use ambient ...
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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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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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How do you use Eevee renderer in a Docker container using bpy?
I'm setting up rendering in a Kubernetes cluster and am using Blender as a Python module to run a script inside a Docker container.
Cycles rendering works as it should, not very fast, but it works ...
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