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How to Use Eevee in Blender - Full Course

Blender Guru via YouTube

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Learn to master the Eevee rendering engine in Blender with this comprehensive course from Blender Guru. Discover how to leverage Eevee's near real-time rendering capabilities to create animation sequences in minutes instead of days compared to Cycles. Start with the fundamentals of how Eevee works, from modeling rooms and fixing light bleed issues to understanding why Eevee produces noise and how to control it. Explore essential techniques including reflection management, using reflection probes, optimizing raytracing, improving global illumination bounces, and implementing volume probes for baked lighting. Master advanced topics such as working with glass materials, thin glass for cups and windows, volumetrics, fixing common issues like dark volume probes and world light bleed, and optimizing your workflow through texture management and reflection probe configuration. Perfect for beginners wanting to understand Eevee's full potential while learning practical solutions to common rendering challenges.

Syllabus

0:00 Intro
0:56 Modelling the room
2:01 Fixing Eevee light bleed
05:00 Why does Eevee have noise?
06:10 Increasing samples to specific areas
08:10 Adding reflections in Eevee
09:06 Fixing reflection artifacts
14:44 Intro to Reflection Probes
17:39 Spherical Probes
20:28 Light Bounces
26:00 Optimizing Raytracing
27:50 Improving GI Bounces
29:18 Introduction to Volume Probes Baked Lighting
35:05 Getting a perfect Volume Probe bake
42:21 Surfel Resolution
43:20 Using image textures
47:26 Improving texture sharpness
48:28 Using HDRIs
52:44 Glass
57:05 Thin glass cups and windows
1:02:44 Volumetrics
1:04:06 What to do when volume probes look dark
1:06:48 Fixing World Light bleed
1:07:44 Fixing flickering alpha maps
1:08:50 Optimizing textures
1:11:35 Optimizing reflection probes
1:14:16 Sphere probe resolution
1:14:58 Raytracing optimizations

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