haha, not directly! :D Just a nod to the fact that we're introducing the shadows to the nebulae and for some reason the 'shadow realm' seems suitably mysterious and massive for a nebula of any sort. :D Aidy.

@@CreativeShrimp ah I see! Well if you are not familiar they have a nebula they go into that looks a lot like it called "The Shadow Realm"

@ Aaah, we'll definitely have to check that out now! :D It's a shame i wasn't aware of it, we could have leaned into it and made more of a connection and reference to it for more fun! :D

Unreal has a different system in terms of shading/procedural textures and so on, and as such it isn't possible to export these Blender procedural nodes straight to Unreal.

do you mean for animations? if so that sort of 'rippling' of the shadows can still happen as the camera moves throughout the scene. Hopefully there's a solution that comes soon either in settings or code, but i'm not currently aware of a good enough 'fix' as yet. We talk a little about it in this video... kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWiQfmWYiJt5fq8 Though that might be not what you mean anyway! :D

May I ask, how exactly do you import it? By selecting an object with the Dust Particles geometry nodes modifier, and copying/pasting it into a new scene?

Definitely! We've been waiting till Eevee next gets stable enough to try porting some of these to it. Should be very promising indeed, given that the main issue with the Eevee volume rendering has been fixed, the dreadful sample flickering.

Thanks! :)

The caps lock in the categories - that's a valid observation, we'll think about it, thanks! Have you tested the wind already?

You're welcome! 🎉 We're thrilled to bring you the latest features and improvements :D

Thanks for throwing us an idea, actually we're pretty excited to get out a new version today, v1.2, this has some wind features to it, which gives the particles some more easier ways to do motion. We'll get a video out today hopefully! Am just uploading the files now. :)

O its not a pro version ok :)

@@AishaSelime thanks so much for the encouragement! Ah yeah, you have identified we just kept the lite version as 'light' as possible so to speak, just a fast and easy method, we have a new update that we're in the process of uploading now for a few more features. :)

A buzzword, more or less, meaning an iterative, or fractal noise pattern. Given that the Perlin noise itself (or the fBM noise, fractal brownian motion noise in Blender) is already fractal, it's like influencing one fractal noise with the other, making it kind of a super noise (similarly to how there are hyper fractals, so why not *super* noise) :)

@@GlebAlexandrov oh I see make sense, thanks for the info.

Yes I think so. As with the rest of our products, it's best to have at least some familiarity with Blender, but we tried to make it as accessible as possible.

Hi Alexander! I'd try these methods first: * The Emission shader can be disabled, in the settings, or rather swapped with the Diffuse/Translucency shader which would react to light so it should interact with the bright sunlight which also generates the light shafts, if I understood correctly * If that doesn't work then the 'mask' for the godrays can be rendered out (on a separate view layer perhaps?), then in the compositor, the dust particles can be revealed only when this mask shows white. I hope it makes sense :)

@@GlebAlexandrov Thank you so much for your time and help . I will try them and give an update :)

Oh really? that is super interesting, thanks for the heads-up, we'll check it out!

Actually, yes, I'll have to record a new video! :D

Apologies for the confusion. As far as I can tell, it should work the same in 4.0 etc, though?

@@GlebAlexandrov nope. Fbm hasnt been released onto stable yet and the noise looks very dull without it.

​@@Firelegs101 Yea, I think I got what you mean. The Blender's default noise in 4.0 and older is also FBM. But I've just checked the files in 4.0 and the displacement mode in the material settings is rolled back to 'Bump only' for some reason. It should be Displacement and Bump (Materials tab, Settings). Please let me know if that solves the issue and thanks for noticing the bug.

@@GlebAlexandrov so youre saying fbm was in 4.0 alpha or in an earlier stable ver

@@Firelegs101 Yes, it has been all along since even earlier versions of Blender, the default noise algorithm is FBM, it was just exposed in 4.1 so now we can choose different algorithms in the Noise node (that was merged with Musgrave, where FBM has been available for ages as well).

Do you mean the product lighting in the promo images? It's mostly an intuitive process for me, but I think it boils down to the key light direction which is almost never frontal but rather angled or backlit.

Yes the lighting in the product video itself. For me its still the most challenging and most critical to get right, and your lighting vids over the years have really helped. Keep shrimping!

Definitely, it reminds me of Samorost game aesthetics for some reason, and yea I can totally see it being used for creating weird little planets.

Thank you!

Give it a try! 😊

Feel free to share your results with us, that would be much appreciated!

Actually it's pretty easy to come up with dozens of different iterations or variations of this pattern by randomly adjusting the sliders so this process is quite absorbing I should say :)

Thank you! Give it a try, it's pretty fascinating how many different shapes spring into existence once touching any slider.

Superneat

Thanks! Great suggestion! That's something we do quite often too, sometimes with multiple empties for an extra nice camera movement style (actually we should demo that tip too for reference!). You have nailed it though, in that initial phase of hunting for the right camera angle you often want to be fast and free. :)

​@@CreativeShrimp Thank you for the reply, I guess this is the answer for me, I should not be spending alot of time thinking about techinal stuff for the initial phase. 👍 Sometimes it felt that using an empty workflow felt a bit slow for me to figure things out and end up redo the whole thing in later phase of rendering when it comes to using compositing nodes stuff. 🙃

Woo! Glad to hear you liked it. Playing around with it is a great abstract art exercise, and there are infinite possibilities in an infinite realm! :D