I’m experimenting with trying to render EEVEE volumetric lighting as a separate pass from the rest of a scene – with the intent of taking the EEVEE volumetric lighting (which looks great) and combining it with a Cycles render.
However, it appears that EEVEE doesn’t honor Blender’s holdout/indirect rendering features, while Cycles does.
Here’s how my scene is set up:
If I render this out using Cycles, I get exactly what I expect – I can see the (not-quite-great Cycles) volumetric lighting, but the face is not in the render – only where the light hits it:
If I take the exact same settings and render it out using EEVEE, I get this, where I see the volumetric lighting as well as the face – and the ground:
Here is the blend file: eevee holdout test.blend (752.2 KB)
Any idea what’s going on? Do I need to set something extra to make the EEVEE render behave properly, or did I stumble across a bug?
