You can use this for mirrors (planar reflection), light bouncing (irradiance grid) and general environment reflection (spherical reflection). This is a technique common on video games. Light probes are a new object type that allows you to simulate the environment reflection on your objects. Using this node gives you a pretty close look when switching from EEVEE to Cycles and vice-versa. Game artists are already familiar with the PBR workflow thus making it straightforward to setup good-looking materials with existent PBR textures (albedo, metallic, …). This is in part because of how “PBR” friendly this node is. The most popular choice for shading is the Principled BSDF node. Which Cycles material nodes can I use with EEVEE?Īll the material nodes are supported with the exceptions of Velvet and Toon. So, with the exception of the video above, most of the EEVEE demos to date are using camera/object motion only, not skeletal/character animation.

Animation support is currently under development, available for testing via the command-line option -enable-copy-on-write No, since Blender 2.8 has no animation support yet. Effects such as bloom, depth of field and shadows on Grease Pencil objects are not implemented yet. And just like Freestyle, they are fully compatible with EEVEE. The upcoming Grease Pencil objects are rendered as part of an overlay pass very similar to Freestyle. The Grease Pencil developers are working on top of the latest blender 2.8 changes, updating the Grease Pencil branch on a daily basis. But since now EEVEE got integrated with the rendering pipeline, you can expect more high-quality demos to appear online in the coming months.Ĭan I use Grease Pencil objects with EEVEE? In its early days of development you could only export your work with the OpenGL render, or screen capture software. There is work to be done, but EEVEE already supports rendering still frames, animations, compositing and sequencer. One of the goals of EEVEE is to replace the Blender Internal renderer with real-time rendering techniques. In that sense EEVEE is very similar to the old Material viewport shade mode. All in a responsive real-time engine.Īdditionally, other tasks can use a full-shaded drawing, like texture painting and sculpting. Layout artists can design a shot with lighting and depth of field. Animators can work with fully textured characters, see contact shadows and reflections. How can I use EEVEE for my Cycles project?Įven if you plan to use Cycles for your final render, EEVEE is still a valuable asset during your production. With more and more EEVEE demos popping up in the internet, it comes the time to shed some light into what is the Blender 2.8 EEVEE project and what is possible with it.

Eevee render environment 2.8