How I do my lighting in EEVEE for Blender 4.0 (´｡• ᵕ •｡) ♡
Are you running your Blender on a toaster? Don't wanna spend much time on rendering in Cycles? Here's some EEVEE tips for you!
1 - Let's put some HDR lighting on! Go to the Worlds, choose Use Notes and hit that little yellow dot next to the Color.
2 - Pick 'Environment Textures'
3 - You'll see everything in purple. But worry not! It's just bc you haven't applied any textures yet! Just go on and hit Open.
4 - You can find plenty of free, high resolution HDRI textures on Poly Haven. I have almost all of them! Go get some for yourself too and navigate to their location. Pick any you like!
Well... It doesn't look good yet :D
5 - Lower the Strength of the light.
6 - Now. Let's go to the Render Properties and check Ambient Occlusion and Bloom (you can play with it's parameters and see which fits you better). THEN... Go to Shadows and increase the resolution to the max. High Bit Depth and Soft Shadows must be checked too!
7 - Let's Add our very first light (The Sun)! And go to the Camera Mode.
8 - In the Sun Shadow settings: Soften the light by increasing the Angle; Lower Bias to the max.
9 - Change the parameters of Cascade Shadow Map the way it looks better for you.
10 - Also don't forget to fix the specular appearance of your model ;3
Now. I don't hate it. But I don't like it much either... So I played and tried several Environment textures for better result.
11 - Looks way better! Now let's go to the Render Properties once again and remove the background in the Film category (in case you don't want one)
12 - It's time to add another light source!
13 - Settings for the new light are quite similar. I made them softer, lowered Bias, changed color, etc.
I'm also in love with the lightning in ur renders, how do u do it?? Im new in blender and o would like to learn new things :) 🖤
Aww, thank you! I'm pretty much new to blender-render too, so I don't know if I can tell something new about it :D But okay, I'll show what I do. I use Eevee render in Blender. Cos I'm poor and can't afford myself cool Cycles that demands powerful PC. Cos it's... easier.
First thing is environment light. Depending on your idea you can change it into more dark, more light or really any color (or even environment texture!)
Let's change it to lighter color ;3
Next, set transparent background.
I like soft light in pictures with bloom like in 80-90s movies :D So I always add Bloom + Ambient Occlusion because in Eevee it's vital.
In most cases I add Sun light first. And set up Shadow quality, cos... again, shadow quality in Eevee is vital:D
Change softness, power, color for the sun light and also add Contact Shadows. (Cos it's vital?:D)
Add back light. I LOOOOVE when the light is shining from behind the model. Makes me *___*, so yes. Back light must be rally hard and powerful to make the trick.
I also love my model's faces, so I usually try to lit it up with extra light to make it clear and well seen ;3
Then add more back light. MORE!
Make some pose/light changes if needed, add some simple Ps edit and that's it! You have this:
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