quick tip. If you render a large enviroment with volumetric acting as mist for godrays and things like that, you can use a mix shader with transparency and plug in the IsShadowRay from LightPaths node to it. It will ignore casting shadows of the volume, a third of the render time. Also, for even simpler mist, place a plane in front of the camera and give it a emission material, but plug it into the volume output. Happy blending.

@BatonyRobson

3 жыл бұрын

hahah, never thought of so simple way to do it) gonna try somehow)

@indieartsmidwest4042

2 жыл бұрын

This tutorial and your comment has been extremely helpful. Knocked my volume render times down from 10 min to 3. Also, unfortunately I have to use cycles for my volume because the node setup doesn't work in EEVEE. So I doing the same process then splicing them together with the compositor as shown. I've needed insight on this particular subject for a long time so thank you both.

Who else is gonna use this in a still render? I surely will! I just realised I could do this? Now I can actually use volumetrics with no time constraints!! This was seriously useful, thanks!!!

@DamianMathew

3 жыл бұрын

That’s great you can use it! I love this little trick myself and use it all the time! :D

3:20 this man just prevented a war.

@DamianMathew

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha yes!

This is a life saver, seriously.

Thanks for the tip! I'm gonna try it

This is genius..... can make so many composite masks for photoshop and premiere... liked and subscribed!

By the way thank you a million for this tutorial! I'll definietly use this many times, this is a life saver

This is so clever

excellent boy!!!

Thanks a lot, mate!

this saved me alot of time

@vain3d973

3 жыл бұрын

no it did not 😂

this saved me 700 hours

Cool

That's why I love Vray for this kind of stuff, I just enable VRayEnvironmentFog ( or VRayAerialPerspective ) and boom there I have fairly accurate volumetric effect, fog, volume lights or whatever at almost no render time cost. It's not calculating GI scattering by default tho but it's damn fast and still accurate. Anyway as always great stuff and useful not only for Cycles/blender.

I did this method and it saved me probably half of the render time (~13h instead of ~30h) on a GTX 1080. The only thing is that i somehow have some small black outlines on all edges, but its not too bad. So definitiely worth it if youre in a hurry

Man I have a big scene, turning all the textures black would be so hard and complicated

This is absolutely awesome !! But better way to render only volume is not by changing materials but rendering only volume pass. 👍

hmmm somehow i missed this video even with notifs on!

@DamianMathew

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, my GF actually said the same about one of my videos. I said I made a new video, and she said really? haha

@CobnutVTS

4 жыл бұрын

@@DamianMathew i think it's just youtube being..well...youtube xD because i said the same to my gf and she had the same reaction hahaha, youtube likes to miss out vids

@DamianMathew

4 жыл бұрын

@@CobnutVTS hahah nice! Yeah its strange, I'm not even trying to understand it.

@CobnutVTS

4 жыл бұрын

@@DamianMathew same here, i just upload and hope for the best xD

could you please use this on a more complex example? thank you so much anyway!

@DamianMathew

4 жыл бұрын

I'll add it to my ideas list! Complex for example like car Headlights?

@samueltavarez2819

4 жыл бұрын

@@DamianMathew yes!!! so i am currently animating a car in a night sequence, it has road lights and also the lights of the vehicle.. blender goes nuts with all of those lights when i activate the volume node for the "god-rays" thank you beforehand!!! thank you for sharing such cool tips man!

Quick question, do you have any good method for applying that black absorbent texture without going one by one and messing up the actual textures on a fairly complex scene? Thank you for the video, great technique.

@DamianMathew

3 жыл бұрын

I guess you can use a mask? Like an Object or Material ID for example

@canelaprod270

3 жыл бұрын

@@DamianMathew Thanks for answering so quickly! Actually I just found out in a forum that I can add an override material in the Renderlayers / Layers panel. This will apply this override material to all the objects in the scene. Maybe this will help someone else 👍🏻

@DamianMathew

3 жыл бұрын

@@canelaprod270 ah cool, good to know!

@thecrowdedone5359

3 жыл бұрын

@@canelaprod270 It helped someone else! Thank you!

Im still not sure why the Blender team cant get Eevee to look and perform like UE4.. I cant complain though, amazing 3D software for free. But i still really wish they could.

@vain3d973

3 жыл бұрын

😌🤍

@mcan-piano4718

2 жыл бұрын

For me, Eevee looks good I think in terms of how shaders look etc. Eevee looks too close to cycles without GI or unsupported features. but only missing things are some features for GI, GI baking and performance improvement features like culling etc for particles handling. (raytracing also if its what people mean that it doesnt look good like UE4). I agree they shouldnt stop and improve it with new coming out features.

I think eevee looks good if done properly, sometimes looks better than UE4 too unless there is a extra UE4 feature that a person needs. Eevee looks almost identical to cycles except GI and other missing things. Plus its the only engine that has perfect similarity and consistence between a raytraced and realtime engine. Even in EU4, Twinmotion or other softwares, pathtracer and realtime engine looks different or give different colors or results (not just about not having raytraced GI etc). But Eevee absolutely looks similar to cycles more than all other softwares. When eevee get some raytracing or realtime GI etc, it will be super closer without baking more than all other softwares. I really like the way cycles and eevee go hand in hand and match with each other except some limitations. So when eevee and cycles get fully supporting each other like having eevee volumetrics and cycles shadows automatically, it will be a game changer. If we imagine cycles has option, ''use eevee volumetrics'' while rendering instead of manually doing it in compositioning. Eeevee and cycles can merge into one hybrid renderer and one day we can have dropdowns option ''shadows - eevee shadows / cycles shadows'' or GI '' Cycles raytraced GI / Baked GI'' like a all in one engine that we can choose which method to use and it can do automatically. Using volumetric pass from eevee in cycles or using shadow pass of cycles for eevee or GI pass of cycles in eevee. anything would be possible. 3 render engine all at once for people to choose 1) cycles 2) eevee 3) hybrid cycles eeevee. Its really sad why noone focus on this... It would be better to have it a priority... I wish there was an addon for doing these things automatically to combine passes of eevee with cycles automatically. Thank you for nice videoo, Maybe u can also do a video about how to usee cycles shadows in eevee etc. These type of videos look really interesting.

Rather than trying to mask out the objects when rendering in Eevee, why not just render out the "Mist" Layer? Then you can just composite it over the cycles frames.

@vain3d973

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, yeah this is a horrible way to do this. Mist Layer is wayyy easier

@christianabandabella235

2 жыл бұрын

Can you control the location of the mist with the mist layer approach?

@mcan-piano4718

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, thats what I thought also.

bro, show the screen not your face lmao, but thanks

@DamianMathew

2 жыл бұрын

But I am more beautiful than Blender.

@Thomascourtois34

2 жыл бұрын

@@DamianMathew ahaha that is true