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Lighting a Simple Room in Blender 2.81 in 5 minutes with Eevee + Light Probes

  • Software:Blender 2.8x  ·
  • Difficulty:Intermediate

Getting good indirect lighting with Eevee is not free as it was with Cycles. To achieve photorealism, you need to use a new tool inside Blender: the light probesđź’ˇ

Achieving the highest possible level of realism with Eevee

In this Blender video tutorial, you’ll learn how to light a simple room in Eevee using a background node, a sun lamp and all the light probes available in this real-time engine.

We’re going to learn how the probes work in a practical way. No more playing with settings until you get a good enough result, after watching this short, 5-minute tutorial, you’ll understand how light works inside Eevee.

To master Eevee, dive into our full Blender 2.8 course "Production Design with Eevee"