Shading, Lighting, and Rendering with Blender EEVEE

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
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