Getting Blender Render to look a bit more like Cycles Render?

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Hello. I’ve been using Blender to make a few models and scenes for a game and I’ve noticed a massive difference between Cycles and Blender render.

The game engine I use sadly only properly accepts Blender Render, but Cycles Render has such a cute art style when rendered that I am really sad to see it go away, because Blender Render renders a sharper, darker and more “menacing” scenes.

Any tips/tricks to get the two to look as similar as possible without tweaking lights? (I’m going to have the lights be generated in-engine). Thanks!

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Maybe these can help you? (These are rather old resources though, not many newer posts/pages to do with Blender Internal these days, as far as i know anyway)

https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/creating-convincing-images-blender-internal-renderer-part1 (Part 1)
https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/creating-convincing-images-blender-internal-renderer-part2 (Part 2)

https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?398165-Materials-in-Blender-Internal-Render-Engine (Good info in comments of this thread)

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Thank you very much!

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No problem :slight_smile:

This may be of use to you as well, it’s a huge library of material settings for blender internal - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Every_Material_Known_to_Man

Heres another, this has .blend files with materials loaded in , i havent tested anything from this site though - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Every_Material_Known_to_Man