WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.579 Hello everyone and welcome to a new section. 00:00:02.579 --> 00:00:04.350 In this section I'm gonna be showing you 00:00:04.350 --> 00:00:06.120 how you can turn your render engine from 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.070 cycles over to EV and 00:00:08.070 --> 00:00:10.785 convert your whole scene into that render engine. 00:00:10.785 --> 00:00:13.095 Av is quite different from cycles, 00:00:13.095 --> 00:00:15.630 lighting, glass, reflections. 00:00:15.630 --> 00:00:17.415 All of that works much differently. 00:00:17.415 --> 00:00:19.920 And I'm going to be talking about how it works and how 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:22.905 to optimize your scene to make it look really nice. 00:00:22.905 --> 00:00:24.960 So let's go ahead and get started. 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:26.490 Here is our final scene, 00:00:26.490 --> 00:00:28.290 it using the Cycles Render Engine. 00:00:28.290 --> 00:00:29.940 And before you change anything, 00:00:29.940 --> 00:00:31.140 make sure you save it as 00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:32.895 a new blend file so you can 00:00:32.895 --> 00:00:35.619 always go back to your one in cycles. 00:00:35.619 --> 00:00:37.730 So with this blend file selected, 00:00:37.730 --> 00:00:39.545 I'm going to press Control Shift and 00:00:39.545 --> 00:00:42.065 S to save it as a new blender file. 00:00:42.065 --> 00:00:44.630 I'm going to call it EV Tutorial 00:00:44.630 --> 00:00:48.155 3 because I've tried to record this three times so far. 00:00:48.155 --> 00:00:51.335 And once you've done that, you can click on Save As. 00:00:51.335 --> 00:00:53.570 Now that we've saved it as a new blender file, 00:00:53.570 --> 00:00:56.330 we can go to the EV render engine and not 00:00:56.330 --> 00:00:57.410 have to worry about messing 00:00:57.410 --> 00:00:59.480 anything up in these cycles version. 00:00:59.480 --> 00:01:02.015 So let's switch over to EV. 00:01:02.015 --> 00:01:03.950 Let's take a look at our scene by hitting 00:01:03.950 --> 00:01:06.350 Z and going into rendered view. 00:01:06.350 --> 00:01:08.420 This might take a couple of minutes 00:01:08.420 --> 00:01:10.370 or you can see there it was pretty quick. 00:01:10.370 --> 00:01:13.760 And you can see our scene doesn't really look that great. 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:15.380 The windows are currently not 00:01:15.380 --> 00:01:17.675 working and we'll fix that in just a second. 00:01:17.675 --> 00:01:19.130 But first off, I wanted to 00:01:19.130 --> 00:01:21.020 fix some of the Render Settings. 00:01:21.020 --> 00:01:22.370 I'm going to zoom in over here 00:01:22.370 --> 00:01:24.110 and show you what some of these do. 00:01:24.110 --> 00:01:26.660 First off, we're going to turn on ambient inclusion. 00:01:26.660 --> 00:01:28.640 You can see this adds a little bit of darkness 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:30.860 around the corners of all of the objects. 00:01:30.860 --> 00:01:32.540 You can control the strength of this 00:01:32.540 --> 00:01:34.235 by turning up the factor amount. 00:01:34.235 --> 00:01:35.690 If you bring those up to three, 00:01:35.690 --> 00:01:37.295 you can see it's a lot darker. 00:01:37.295 --> 00:01:39.815 I'm just going to leave it at a value of one. 00:01:39.815 --> 00:01:42.440 You can also turn on a bloom and this is going to need 00:01:42.440 --> 00:01:44.810 to add a glow around the lights. 00:01:44.810 --> 00:01:46.160 So if I come over to here, 00:01:46.160 --> 00:01:47.600 you can see with it off, 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:48.755 there is no glow. 00:01:48.755 --> 00:01:49.820 But with that turned on, 00:01:49.820 --> 00:01:52.370 it adds a nice glow around that area, 00:01:52.370 --> 00:01:53.810 which is pretty nice. 00:01:53.810 --> 00:01:56.030 You can control the strength of this bloom by 00:01:56.030 --> 00:01:58.430 turning up the intensity slider. 00:01:58.430 --> 00:02:01.250 I'm just going to leave it at the default settings. 00:02:01.250 --> 00:02:03.410 One very important setting that we need to 00:02:03.410 --> 00:02:05.465 turn on is a screen space. 00:02:05.465 --> 00:02:08.255 Reflections. Make sure that is enabled 00:02:08.255 --> 00:02:09.410 and that will change how 00:02:09.410 --> 00:02:11.675 your reflections work in your entire scene. 00:02:11.675 --> 00:02:13.160 You can see with it off there 00:02:13.160 --> 00:02:14.645 is no reflection in the water, 00:02:14.645 --> 00:02:17.810 but with it turned on, we now have reflection. 00:02:17.810 --> 00:02:19.910 Open up this panel and make 00:02:19.910 --> 00:02:22.055 sure refraction is also turned on. 00:02:22.055 --> 00:02:23.660 This will allow us to modify 00:02:23.660 --> 00:02:25.310 the glass materials we can actually 00:02:25.310 --> 00:02:28.670 see through it and then also turn off half raise traced. 00:02:28.670 --> 00:02:29.795 So we're actually using 00:02:29.795 --> 00:02:33.030 the full resolution on all of the rays. 00:02:33.220 --> 00:02:36.350 Next up we're going to open up these shadows. 00:02:36.350 --> 00:02:39.050 The cube size is currently set to five at 12. 00:02:39.050 --> 00:02:42.080 This will give us a kind of low resolution shadow. 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:45.620 So let's bring that up to a value of 248. 00:02:45.620 --> 00:02:47.030 That's just going to increase 00:02:47.030 --> 00:02:49.130 the resolution of all of our shadows. 00:02:49.130 --> 00:02:53.540 The cascade side, I'm also going to bring up to 2048. 00:02:53.540 --> 00:02:57.020 And that will also make and that will also help with 00:02:57.020 --> 00:02:58.670 the resolution of the shadows 00:02:58.670 --> 00:03:00.575 and making sure everything looks good. 00:03:00.575 --> 00:03:03.470 You can also turn on high bit depth shadows 00:03:03.470 --> 00:03:06.410 and that will increase the resolution as well. 00:03:06.410 --> 00:03:09.170 The indirect lighting we will cover later, 00:03:09.170 --> 00:03:10.910 but for now we're going to close that off. 00:03:10.910 --> 00:03:13.040 And I think everything else is good to go. 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:15.395 We have medium, high contrast in the color management. 00:03:15.395 --> 00:03:17.915 So now let's work on the materials. 00:03:17.915 --> 00:03:20.090 I'm going to select the window material 00:03:20.090 --> 00:03:22.820 first and then go over to the Material tab. 00:03:22.820 --> 00:03:25.609 Make sure you have the glass material selected. 00:03:25.609 --> 00:03:27.530 And how this works is we need to 00:03:27.530 --> 00:03:29.990 turn on its screen space refraction. 00:03:29.990 --> 00:03:31.730 And then we'll be able to see 00:03:31.730 --> 00:03:34.745 inside our house as you can see there. 00:03:34.745 --> 00:03:38.120 And that is basically all we really need to do. 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:39.590 As with the other materials. 00:03:39.590 --> 00:03:41.765 We're going to select our pool water, 00:03:41.765 --> 00:03:43.909 turn on screen at space refraction. 00:03:43.909 --> 00:03:46.010 And then we should be able to see inside ice, 00:03:46.010 --> 00:03:47.930 you can see the other material 00:03:47.930 --> 00:03:50.030 that we need to fix is all of the plants. 00:03:50.030 --> 00:03:53.255 You can see since they're using a transparent texture, 00:03:53.255 --> 00:03:56.525 is giving us a black outline over every single leaf. 00:03:56.525 --> 00:03:59.390 So what we need to do is selected that material. 00:03:59.390 --> 00:04:01.535 We have the leaves material selected. 00:04:01.535 --> 00:04:03.050 Underneath the blend mode, 00:04:03.050 --> 00:04:05.420 we need to select Alpha hashed. 00:04:05.420 --> 00:04:06.980 And that's going to get rid of 00:04:06.980 --> 00:04:09.470 that transparency and give us that this effect, 00:04:09.470 --> 00:04:11.090 which looks a lot better. 00:04:11.090 --> 00:04:12.590 Let's do the same thing for 00:04:12.590 --> 00:04:14.360 this object over here inside the house. 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.265 Let's go ahead and select it. 00:04:16.265 --> 00:04:17.705 And then on the blend mode, 00:04:17.705 --> 00:04:20.255 set it over to Alpha hashed. 00:04:20.255 --> 00:04:22.160 Finally, it will come up here to 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:24.380 the big tree and do the same thing. 00:04:24.380 --> 00:04:27.080 And you might think to switch it over to alpha blended. 00:04:27.080 --> 00:04:29.360 But the problem with that is it doesn't 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.105 really work with and multi-layer transparency. 00:04:32.105 --> 00:04:35.105 You can see here, if I switch it over to alpha blend, 00:04:35.105 --> 00:04:37.340 it's not going to display those at all. 00:04:37.340 --> 00:04:39.890 It's only going to display the trees. 00:04:39.890 --> 00:04:41.795 So switching it over to 00:04:41.795 --> 00:04:44.330 Alpha hat allows other transparent objects. 00:04:44.330 --> 00:04:45.380 You can actually see through 00:04:45.380 --> 00:04:46.910 them and see that transparency, 00:04:46.910 --> 00:04:48.515 which is what we want. 00:04:48.515 --> 00:04:51.005 And that looks much better. 00:04:51.005 --> 00:04:52.640 You also might notice that we have 00:04:52.640 --> 00:04:54.575 a lot of light bleed all over the place, 00:04:54.575 --> 00:04:56.915 especially over here in the top right. 00:04:56.915 --> 00:04:59.300 Eb is known for rendering light bleed and 00:04:59.300 --> 00:05:01.640 there are a couple of ways to fix that. 00:05:01.640 --> 00:05:04.475 Let's go ahead and select the lab in our scene. 00:05:04.475 --> 00:05:06.470 And the first thing that we need to do to 00:05:06.470 --> 00:05:08.750 help prevent that light bleed is to 00:05:08.750 --> 00:05:13.295 open up the shadow and then turn on at contact shadows. 00:05:13.295 --> 00:05:15.590 What contact shadows does is it basically 00:05:15.590 --> 00:05:17.660 takes the light and where there 00:05:17.660 --> 00:05:19.685 is a shadow and then adds a little bit 00:05:19.685 --> 00:05:22.085 of a shadow really close to that edge. 00:05:22.085 --> 00:05:25.130 That edge is determined by the distance slider. 00:05:25.130 --> 00:05:26.360 So if I drag this up, 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:28.640 that might help prevent a little bit, 00:05:28.640 --> 00:05:30.260 but you can see it's still there. 00:05:30.260 --> 00:05:32.270 So another way to fix light bead is 00:05:32.270 --> 00:05:34.145 to add some thickness to your object. 00:05:34.145 --> 00:05:35.690 So we're gonna go ahead and do that, 00:05:35.690 --> 00:05:37.310 select your main A-frame of 00:05:37.310 --> 00:05:39.320 the house and go over to the modifier, 00:05:39.320 --> 00:05:41.270 tap the thickness slider 00:05:41.270 --> 00:05:43.880 here and the solidify modifier we're going to bring up. 00:05:43.880 --> 00:05:45.230 First though I'm going to set 00:05:45.230 --> 00:05:47.000 the offset all the way up to one. 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.550 So instead of extending inside the house, 00:05:49.550 --> 00:05:50.960 the thickness is actually going to 00:05:50.960 --> 00:05:52.955 go on the outside of the house. 00:05:52.955 --> 00:05:54.785 So for the thickness slider, 00:05:54.785 --> 00:05:58.560 I'm going to set that up to 0.2 and enter. 00:05:59.080 --> 00:06:02.450 And hopefully that will prevent any light bleed that's in 00:06:02.450 --> 00:06:04.970 these corners will do the same thing over here. 00:06:04.970 --> 00:06:06.875 We're going to select this plane 00:06:06.875 --> 00:06:08.225 or this object right here. 00:06:08.225 --> 00:06:09.740 And underneath the thickness, 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:12.290 we're going to go up two instead of point 00:06:12.290 --> 00:06:13.460 2 because that's a bit too 00:06:13.460 --> 00:06:15.080 much on this side of the house. 00:06:15.080 --> 00:06:18.980 Let's go up to 0.15 and Enter. 00:06:18.980 --> 00:06:21.260 You can see inside that it's 00:06:21.260 --> 00:06:22.820 clipping into that object now. 00:06:22.820 --> 00:06:24.110 So on the offset, 00:06:24.110 --> 00:06:26.820 let's try a value of 0. 00:06:27.270 --> 00:06:29.575 That will look a little bit better. 00:06:29.575 --> 00:06:30.640 And as you can see though, 00:06:30.640 --> 00:06:32.905 there is still some light bleed right there. 00:06:32.905 --> 00:06:36.234 Another way to fix that is to lower the lights. 00:06:36.234 --> 00:06:39.145 So what we can do is select of those lights right here. 00:06:39.145 --> 00:06:41.200 I'll select this one as well. 00:06:41.200 --> 00:06:43.630 The select those objects will go back 00:06:43.630 --> 00:06:46.435 into rendered view and drag this underneath. 00:06:46.435 --> 00:06:48.610 And as you can see, once we drag it underneath, 00:06:48.610 --> 00:06:50.695 that light is now gone. 00:06:50.695 --> 00:06:52.480 Let's go back into camera view 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:53.590 and double-check the rest of 00:06:53.590 --> 00:06:54.760 the scene and I think everything 00:06:54.760 --> 00:06:57.070 else is looking pretty good. 00:06:57.070 --> 00:06:59.815 Now let's talk about indirect lighting. 00:06:59.815 --> 00:07:01.690 Indirect lighting allows there to be 00:07:01.690 --> 00:07:04.015 light bounces in EV, at the moment, 00:07:04.015 --> 00:07:05.920 there is no light bounces and that's why 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:08.925 the whole scene looks very plain and boring. 00:07:08.925 --> 00:07:11.630 So to add light bounces and EV, 00:07:11.630 --> 00:07:13.415 you need to add in a new object. 00:07:13.415 --> 00:07:14.870 We're going to press Shift a and go 00:07:14.870 --> 00:07:16.220 over to the light probe 00:07:16.220 --> 00:07:19.549 and then add in any radiance volume object. 00:07:19.549 --> 00:07:21.110 With this object selected, 00:07:21.110 --> 00:07:23.900 we need to scale it up to match the rest of the scene. 00:07:23.900 --> 00:07:27.035 I'm going to go into top view by hitting seven. 00:07:27.035 --> 00:07:29.270 And then I'm going to press S to scale and 00:07:29.270 --> 00:07:31.940 scale it up to fit the entire house. 00:07:31.940 --> 00:07:33.920 Just like this. 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.050 So right about there looks pretty good. 00:07:36.050 --> 00:07:38.660 You want to make sure that this is as small as it can be 00:07:38.660 --> 00:07:40.220 because it's going to take a long time 00:07:40.220 --> 00:07:41.900 to bake the indirect lighting. 00:07:41.900 --> 00:07:44.600 We're gonna go into front view now and scale 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.465 this along the z-axis until it fits the house. 00:07:47.465 --> 00:07:49.040 So right about there and then we'll 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:50.720 drag it down right about there. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:52.820 Looks pretty good. 00:07:52.820 --> 00:07:55.190 Let's go over to the settings and we're 00:07:55.190 --> 00:07:56.840 going to talk about the resolution. 00:07:56.840 --> 00:07:58.390 The resolution is how good at 00:07:58.390 --> 00:08:00.335 the indirect lighting will work. 00:08:00.335 --> 00:08:02.060 You can see with the screenshots 00:08:02.060 --> 00:08:03.440 so that a low resolution, 00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:05.990 there's not a very high-quality look 00:08:05.990 --> 00:08:08.840 to the bounces of light with a high resolution, 00:08:08.840 --> 00:08:10.130 it looks a lot better. 00:08:10.130 --> 00:08:11.660 So along the z-axis, 00:08:11.660 --> 00:08:12.830 I'm going to leave it at four, 00:08:12.830 --> 00:08:14.255 but along the x and the y, 00:08:14.255 --> 00:08:16.775 I'm going to bring it up to a value of eight. 00:08:16.775 --> 00:08:18.560 You also don't want to go too 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.450 high with these values because sometimes it will 00:08:20.450 --> 00:08:21.890 look a little bit weird and you'll 00:08:21.890 --> 00:08:24.155 have more light bead than usual. 00:08:24.155 --> 00:08:27.230 I found that a value of eight for the x and y and 00:08:27.230 --> 00:08:28.820 a value of four for the z 00:08:28.820 --> 00:08:30.845 looks pretty good for this scene. 00:08:30.845 --> 00:08:33.110 So now that we've done that, let's jump back over to 00:08:33.110 --> 00:08:36.515 the EV settings and then click on bake indirect lighting. 00:08:36.515 --> 00:08:38.870 And that will make the entire scene have bound sliding. 00:08:38.870 --> 00:08:40.865 And it will look a really nice. 00:08:40.865 --> 00:08:43.640 Now that the indirect lighting has finished baking, 00:08:43.640 --> 00:08:46.160 Let's press Z and go into rendered view. 00:08:46.160 --> 00:08:48.290 As you can see, there is no lightweight 00:08:48.290 --> 00:08:50.330 anywhere and it is looking much better. 00:08:50.330 --> 00:08:51.860 The interior now has bounced 00:08:51.860 --> 00:08:53.675 lighting and it looks really nice. 00:08:53.675 --> 00:08:56.015 It almost looks good as cycles. 00:08:56.015 --> 00:08:58.850 So now that we've added all of the indirect lighting, 00:08:58.850 --> 00:09:01.040 I think we are ready to render this out. 00:09:01.040 --> 00:09:02.420 So for the render samples, 00:09:02.420 --> 00:09:05.390 I'm going to go up to a value of 128. 00:09:05.390 --> 00:09:07.760 I don't think you need to go any higher than that. 00:09:07.760 --> 00:09:10.430 And make sure you save your project once again, 00:09:10.430 --> 00:09:11.960 then you can go over to render 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:14.150 and then click on Render Image. 00:09:14.150 --> 00:09:16.130 This might take a minute or two 00:09:16.130 --> 00:09:17.930 depending on how fast your computer is. 00:09:17.930 --> 00:09:19.175 But once it's done rendering, 00:09:19.175 --> 00:09:21.770 it'll take those composite knows that we've 00:09:21.770 --> 00:09:23.270 created in the last section 00:09:23.270 --> 00:09:25.595 and then apply it to the EV render. 00:09:25.595 --> 00:09:27.620 And the rotor has finished and it 00:09:27.620 --> 00:09:29.390 only took about 20 seconds. 00:09:29.390 --> 00:09:32.000 And as you can see, it does look really nice. 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:34.130 If you want to change how the render looks, 00:09:34.130 --> 00:09:36.020 you can exit out of this window and go over 00:09:36.020 --> 00:09:38.450 to the compositing space right here. 00:09:38.450 --> 00:09:40.850 We don't really need a lot of these nodes. 00:09:40.850 --> 00:09:41.930 Like for example, we don't need 00:09:41.930 --> 00:09:43.625 a gamma nodes, we can get rid of that. 00:09:43.625 --> 00:09:45.260 We'll plug it into here. 00:09:45.260 --> 00:09:47.780 And then you can change the color if you wanted to. 00:09:47.780 --> 00:09:48.950 So if you wanted the shadows to 00:09:48.950 --> 00:09:50.270 be just a tiny bit brighter, 00:09:50.270 --> 00:09:51.650 you can drive that up. 00:09:51.650 --> 00:09:53.300 If the highlights are too bright, 00:09:53.300 --> 00:09:55.940 you can drive that down and play around with the nodes 00:09:55.940 --> 00:09:59.150 just like you did before in the cycles version. 00:09:59.150 --> 00:10:01.445 Once you are happy with the nodes that you've set up, 00:10:01.445 --> 00:10:04.325 you can press F 11 to bring back your scene, 00:10:04.325 --> 00:10:05.930 come over to here and type in 00:10:05.930 --> 00:10:07.970 viewer and select the viewer node. 00:10:07.970 --> 00:10:10.475 And then you can press Shift Alt S to save it. 00:10:10.475 --> 00:10:13.460 Or you can go over to image and click on Save As, 00:10:13.460 --> 00:10:15.200 and then name it however you want. 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.350 I'm going to call it AB Tutorial 2, 00:10:18.350 --> 00:10:20.720 and then I'll click on Save As. 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:22.400 There we go. We've now rendered 00:10:22.400 --> 00:10:24.605 arsine using the EV Render Engine. 00:10:24.605 --> 00:10:26.420 Thank you very much for watching this tutorial 00:10:26.420 --> 00:10:28.220 if you created your own, I'd love to see it. 00:10:28.220 --> 00:10:29.300 So make sure to post it in 00:10:29.300 --> 00:10:31.505 the assignments or the projects. 00:10:31.505 --> 00:10:32.960 Now just for fun, 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:34.610 here's a comparison with the EV 00:10:34.610 --> 00:10:37.100 render engine and the Cycles Render Engine. 00:10:37.100 --> 00:10:38.570 You can take a look at these and see 00:10:38.570 --> 00:10:41.150 the differences and find the one that you like. 00:10:41.150 --> 00:10:43.550 As you can see, they both look really nice. 00:10:43.550 --> 00:10:44.750 I think these Cycles render 00:10:44.750 --> 00:10:46.250 engine looks a little bit better. 00:10:46.250 --> 00:10:48.050 It looks a little bit more realistic. 00:10:48.050 --> 00:10:49.610 But the IV, your render engine, 00:10:49.610 --> 00:10:50.930 the render time only took 00:10:50.930 --> 00:10:54.440 20 seconds and it still looks really good. 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.450 So they both have their strengths and 00:10:56.450 --> 00:10:58.025 weaknesses, but there it is. 00:10:58.025 --> 00:10:59.525 That's gonna do it for this section. 00:10:59.525 --> 00:11:00.860 Thank you again for watching and 00:11:00.860 --> 00:11:03.240 I'll see you in the next one.