EEVEE Light Probes for Reflections: Blender 2.8 Tutorial

This Blender video demonstrates the use of 2 EEVEE Light Probes that are used for reflections. First Reflection Cubemaps are demonstrated and then Reflection Planes. EEVEE is a new render engine included with Blender version 2.8.
Blender version used for this video:
Version 2.80 Beta
Link to Screen Space Reflections Video (5 EEVEE Tips You Should Know)
• 5 EEVEE Tips You Shoul...
Blender website
www.blender.org

[@PolyRidge]

holy crap, you are the only person in existence that seems to have seen this and instead of just running to use cylces, actually found a way to make it work. you are a life saver!!!

[@PolyRidge]

@Casey Samson what the junk... bruh. Stop

[@mythmakertheanimator9912]

This. This is how a good CG tutor teaches an intermediate subject. Clear, well thought out, even artful, no frill no mumbling no distraction video lesson. Thank you.

[@monkmichel9477]

I love how you comment everything you do, no open questions left, everything understandable and thus really helpful, this style should be adopted by every tutorial/help/tips&tricks video maker!

[@-Rook-]

Excellent advice that still works well in Blender 2.83

[@petertremblay3725]

This is the kind of tutorials that are needed for 2.8 and there is not a lot on it so far so thank for making this!

[@BramvanVliet]

Very clear explanation, thank you for making this Blender tutorial.

[@LivingVoxelAmbience]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, i´m actually so surprised, that almost nobody is using this.

[@petrofsilvers]

Please keep making these videos! They are some of the easiest to follow and with a few variances we can make some pretty cool custom stuff!

[@MichaelSartore]

You just saved about half the hair on my head from potentially being ripped out from frustration over tiny things you shed light on here. Thanks very much kind sir!

[@Negasuki]

Ok, There's a REASON why there are over 2k thumbs up and only 11 down.... hella nice job on this.. and thank you for making it.

[@mixchief]

Couldn't be betterly explained. Thanks, tutor4u

[@frank_schumacher]

I like your modeling tutorials best.

[@Lattamonsteri]

This was very clear :D I think the metallic reflections are not a bug but a property of the metal itself. Since it's metallic, it will be 100% specular and since Eevee doesn't calculate reflective bounces, it's gonna show metallic surfaces as black. It would be better to add an exception to Eevee so that it showed the basecolor of that metallic material but now it's behaving kinda like if you had Cycles on with specular bounces left to 0.

[@beaconofwierd1883]

Thanks, was having trouble getting my cubemap to work :/ This cleared up a lot of confusion :D

[@happyotter9]

Thank you so much! Straight to the point, without needless info, very informative and most importantly - no edgy dubstep intro.

[@PetRatPro]

Thank you so much! This is the most understandable eevee I have seen so far!

[@truffleshuffle009]

I want to say that I love your channel and you are one of the best at doing tutorials and explaining to people how to do things.

[@daadood100]

I would say is the only best tutor that is worth watching and learn.

[@johnsmith4432]

fantastic tutorial

[@nuke2625]

Such an amazing work.l explaining that. Can't thank you enough brother.

[@darkhoodchief]

I use a temporary fix on the "bug" where glossy things appear black on cubemaps. I attach a Mix Shader before the Material Output and plug the shader that I want the camera to see in the top node. I attach another shader on the bottom node on what I want the object to look like on the reflection cubemaps. Then I add a Light Path and plug the "Is Glossy Ray" to the Mix Shader factor node. And when you bake the cube maps, Viola! It's not a perfect fix but still better than a being a black blob on reflections.

[@rana-3d]

After many days your video has been released

[@ernestdrozdz1889]

This introduction is crazy good, thanks!

[@blender4you591]

tutor4u is one of the best making Blender tutorials, I like all the blender tutorials

[@Numocron]

This is an awesome Blender tutorial I love it.

[@scale...3d]

Really helpful video, thanks mate!

[@TheAlison1456]

This is very inconvenient... I can't comment on the cadence of the voice because tutorials are all over the place, so it matters not. Well, this was a lovely tutorial. Thanks.

[@GglSux]

Thanks for a great tutorial, short but clear and comprehensive, very well done. Best regards

[@calogiga]

Many many thanks. You explain all so well. Happy to see you back. Damned, EEVEE is wonderful, but also very difficult. I will not left Cycles because all these kinds of reflections are "automatic" in Cycles.

[@NeonCipher]

Those reflections are pretty tricky! Awesome tutorial. Thank you so much!

[@sandroavieira]

Master of tutorials

[@markgohl2660]

Very useful and clear description thank you.

[@SamJonesGuy]

Thank you! Super helpful!

[@Mind_Splitter]

This was such a well thought out tutorial. Thank you!

[@moiggc]

This helped, thank you.

[@Osatarium]

Great explanation with very good examples , well done ...

[@activemotionpictures]

Thank you for uploading with the recent changes. Pretty clear explanation btw! one of the best I´ve seen.

[@musabbinjamil]

Please add some sculpting tutorials ..... I think that would help a lot of people .... And nice work so far big fan of your teaching methods

[@pamhampton2588]

As always, a perfectly understandable tutorial :)

[@activemotionpictures]

Thank you for this shared video tutorial! amazing. Really liked how you tweaked the guts on eevee`s reflection screen space.

[@richardchapman5519]

tutor4u Blender tutorials are absolutely the best available. I look forward to lots more now we have the best Blender yet - 2.8. Many thanks to you sir.

[@creeyuwan2733]

Thanks a lot! Very structured lessons. Thanks for your efforts

[@vikkiarts1407]

U r the only key to all beginners

[@bernardjoisten1711]

Congratulation and thanks for this explanation.

[@namaanda5349]

Thanks. Okay, 1 step further to understand eevee

[@mikaisfake]

Nicely done and explained

[@osshodeembo5128]

I am beginner on blender and you are my first teacher. I am learning from your tutorial, but I can't do charter modeling with a photo. plz upload a video how to modeling from picture....

[@farhadkavei]

thank you for the basics, but I will be happy if you could teach us how to use them for complex scenes, like a jar of glass that has flowers in it and jar is on a glass table

[@bohdan_lvov]

absolutely amazing tutorial, thanks!

[@marcrochette]

This totally saved me, thank you!

[@shaifmahmud1136]

Love From Bangladesh.

[@jahidulimran3677]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqWmYZ56g8uWpbc Hey can you please help me with this ? Im asking for help but nobody is listening! please watch this video whenever I add a mesh and go to edit mode the lines aren't matching . Because of that I cant select a vertics and I can't use other modes or effects as well as I cant edit please help me out

[@neyreoliveira2811]

Thanks a lot!

[@AceTop]

Wow. Perfect explanation. Thank you.

[@MadissonStudios]

Thank you.

[@darkhoodchief]

Thanks for the tutorial. Btw I rarely use Principled Shader because it makes Eevee freak out in some node arrangement.

[@irsalalfred3920]

Thanks a lot.

[@VicVegaTW]

Nicely done

[@MrFrgtme]

thank you, very clear and usefull tuts.!

[@AdamJanz3D]

Great and thorough explanation. Thank you so much for this video! :-)

[@sdrawkcabdaernacuoy]

Is there difference in the quality of the final render when using light probes instead of Screen Space Reflections? Or, do light probes just give you more control? This was a great tutorial. Thanks!

[@mrlightwriter]

I have the same doubt...

[@WesleySales1]

Amazing tutorial! Great explanation :)

[@goldengemgames2939]

Wait your floor is already reflecting the walls before the reflection map is put on it? I have a scene with a tiled floor and only the light from my area lights reflect from the floor, not the walls or the door in the back. I have a very low roughness on the floor and am using an image texture for the floor. The reflection plane doesn't seem to be doing anything to the floor. What am I doing wrong here? Nvm the roughness just needed to be even lower.

[@jarabito001]

thank you very for this explanation really clear

[@JohnGetchel]

Very well done! Thank you!

[@amirmessai2665]

best explain -full thanks.algeria

[@TheMikelmendizabal]

Very good! Thanks!

[@truegeorg]

Very Big big huge thks!!!

[@calogiga]

I have a request tutorial : how to make realistic eyes in EEVEE. Thanks for your sharing.

[@Glowbox3D]

Great step by step, but my floor isn't reflecting. It doesn't work for me. I followed everything. I'm using 2.81. Eevee. The floor has a reflection plane, and the hero object has a reflection cube. I've baked. When I select 'show preview plane' I see mega sharp reflections like a mirror, so I assume the reflection plane is working...but I want it to lay over my floor, and blend with my floor, but it does not render, nor show up in my camera.

[@nimnoyyah3480]

welcome back please can you make more text Animation tutorial

[@heveycreations4197]

You are the best, thank you !

[@smilodon9349]

you are the best tutor could you make a video a bout the PBR texturing workflow in 2.8

[@greyvirus444]

Hello good sir - tutor4u! I'm following all your tutorials and you sir - are fantastic teacher! I would like to make a request - EXPORTING FXB MODELS WITH MESH/MATERIALS ATTACHED- it's a very common problem that mesh gets lost and no solid answer on the web on a foolproof way to do it, could you please make a video on it? I and many others would be very thankful! Thank you and keep being awesome!

[@yehyabre1984]

Thank you!

[@garymorton1723]

Can I get a reflection of a reflection using reflection surfaces? It works with cycles.

[@jirkadolezal8127]

Thank you

[@ThereAreNoFacts]

Much appreciated!

[@robertzaku9110]

this is a helpful tutorial, but as i've read the Blender Manual, this is a technical limitation, only 128 reflection cubemaps, 64 irradiance volumes can be enabled in a scene in the realtime viewport. If you set more than it, the rest won't work. :/ I hope they will work on it

[@emirunalan1287]

I realised that if you have an object with subsurface, it won't reflect its material. Reflection plane reflects the material but ignores the subsurface amount. Putting two metallic objects in front of each other results as reflecting background texture on their surfaces. I can share blend file if anyone is interested.

[@moose304]

Thank you! Just wondering if these tools have uses outside of EEVEE? Or more generally "other uses" ?

[@tcheadriano]

I still not understand light probes, why use this method instead of simply enable screen space reflection? What is the advantage?

[@guylemay1471]

No! No! No ...it's me who thank you for making these kind of tutorials!

[@ritzvish3429]

Please make a tutorial on how u made the blender can with water droplets please please please please please please

[@DouglasEKnappMSAOM]

can with water is a Blender Guru tut.

[@sanyasayon6995]

Impossible for me or the beginners to follow instructions from Blender Guru, that is why... He talks and talks and talk and doesn't tell you how to do it, you need to see and concentrate only his cursor moving

[@DouglasEKnappMSAOM]

@@sanyasayon6995 Ok, I will make on for you.

[@xxerbexx]

@@sanyasayon6995 100% wrong. he explains things properly. he has a series in wich he creats a anvil from beginning to end, all important steps included and explained. work through this and u are able creat own things in blender. at least if you dont skip stuff.

[@maxearthican1898]

thanks a lot.. very very helpful.

[@optimaelectronics3540]

How can I solve the problem with dark reflection as in the end of the video, when you make the floor material more metalic

[@jdt3556]

Someone please reply, is this tutorial still applicable to 3.0 or 2.9 Blender build?

[@ravivaghasiya]

how can we hide area light reflection from glossy surface?

[@ryanmckinley5483]

Do reflection cube maps/plane light probes noticeably impact performance, or is it negligible because they have to be baked before rendering?

[@_Romulodovale]

How do we get rid of those lamp being reflected?

[@vladimmi]

iirc, you were not able to see one object through another when both used screen space reflections and transmission. but here with cubemaps it works. will it be the only way or "global" reflections gonna be fixed for release?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

What i dont get, is when you added the second cubic map. why didnt i needed to rebake. When you added the second it immediately showed the red sphere through the monkey? IS that due to auto-bake? Because earlier it was enabled but you still used bake button?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Man his engine sure takes tones of setup to do. What about when you have dozens of objects, perhaps hundreds?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

In that last case, isnt there some sort of ray depth you can set for the reflective plane? Looks like it simply hasnt enough sample or so. Just like with path tracing

[@leotreasure]

9:22 When I disable 'show data' I don't see any reflections - I tried flipping the reflection plane over but no luck. I'm on Mac maybe it's not in the build yet.

[@axeway]

is it possible to animate a cubemap so that it moves along with an animated object, and generates correct reflections?

[@TanjoGalbi]

I don't thinks so. I'm no Blender expert, I'm still learning it myself, but the cubemap needs to be baked and as far as I know there is no "bake for each frame" option for when you render an animation. Maybe there is an add-on to do that, IDK.

[@owenpaxton4664]

Hi, do you know how I can remove just the light source from reflections in Eevee? Can't find a solution anywhere!

[@BlenderRookie]

One day I want to be able to make tutorials as good as tutor4u.

[@eknight2904]

It seems maps and general reflections are alternative options, do you have any insight on what to use when? Thank you

[@gower1973]

I think it’s a performance thing, this method is the most performant for low spec systems or where you have loads of objects in a scene, but it’s also the most tedious to setup, I think screen space reflections supersedes this method, but they can be used together I think, not sure, for best quality though you would just use cycles as it a proper path tracer and just works but you are going to be waiting hours to render out an animation instead of a few minutes with eevee

[@eknight2904]

@@gower1973 Thank you, would be good to get away with just setting a checkmark on screenspace reflections 😎

[@sanyasayon6995]

I don't have blender Version 2.80. I clicked on his link but see only 2.79 b. anyone tells me how to get his version.

[@ansavik]

builder.blender.org/download/

[@sanyasayon6995]

Thanks so much for your info. At last I can download and follow his instruction. Have a nice day!!

[@nadimkazi87]

Change the playback speed to 1.25x and be my guest!

[@kuqmua755]

i am from blender guru

[@kepelr]

same

[@ElcoolMo]

can you make a video on how to model a phone

[@TC3Dgraphicdesign]

Eevee like grind...