Creating assets for Cycles and Eevee, shading?

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#1

Hi all,

Looking into asset creation, but don’t want to ‘limit’ myself to just Cycles and/or Eevee.
As I haven’t really looked at Eevee properly yet, hence the questions. :wink:

What would be the best approach for this? Two sets of shaders?
Or is there a way to set up everything for the PBR shader in one go?
Or are there certain differences that limit a workflow like this?
I do realize textures can be an issue for realtime work in Eevee, as they can get a bit big with 2K+ sizes.

any links or tips are appreciated!

Rob

#2

There are a few things that have not yet been translated to Eevee, such as object info random EDIT -OBJECT INFO RANDOM IS NOW WORKING IN EEVEE and video textures… VIDEO TEXTURES ARE ALSO NOW WORKING IN EEVEE… other than that - if you make a material; for one, it will work in the other as well.

Cycles is more realistic - Cycles ray-traces where as Eevee uses a variety of tricks to impersonate what Cycles does in realtime (ish)

For creating assets… most of the time it wont matter.

#3

Thanks!

I was already thinking of building two sets of shader with a switch node.
Just have to see how far I can take this between Cycles and Eevee. It’s mostly for ArchViz…

rob

#4

You know you can have two material outputs and set one to cycles and one to eevee, right?

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Very handy!

#5

Ah!

Like I said, haven’t really looked into this yet.
Great tip, thanks! :slight_smile:

#6

Are you sure about object info random output?

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#7

Huh… it must have been fixed since I last tried it. Sorry for the mis-information.

#8

Daily builds :wink:

Hard to stay up with all the changes :slight_smile:
rob

#9

I used video textures yesterday “just fine”. I may be messing something up and I didn’t look it up, but I had to animate the offset :smiley:

In image I adjusted the pixel size to 1 and it’s brightness compensation to avoid moire hell.

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#10

Thats odd… after seeing your post I went back to the blender bug tracking thread ( https://developer.blender.org/T57457 ) and there wasn’t anything saying “HOOORAAYY THIS IS FIXED NOW!!!” …

#11

It´s particles info random that is missing for eevee.

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#12

Haven’t skimmed through that thread until now. Maybe it’s still broken and I just had a Bob Ross moment.

#13

Well - it looks like video textures are also working! Thank you, Dev team!. (and I never noticed it said “resolved” at the top!)