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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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Now that Blender 2.8 supports armature, we can render character animation in Eevee, here I rendered 1800 frames with SSS, it needs tons of tweaking, especially the cornea, and transparency doesn't work the way it does with Cycles, but it is promising, especially when considering that Blender 2.8 is not even in Beta yet!
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By TonyDPrime - 6 Years Ago
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Cool test YoYoMaster. I think it will be cool to see what Blender Evee is capable of.
I find that look on par with Unreal and Unity. You have to mess with the materials in those as well, almost to the point where it's quite laborious.
Much quicker getting things done in iClone. But is it just my imagination, or iClone doesn't render that 'sharp', right?
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By urbanlamb - 6 Years Ago
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I am patiently waiting for this to be "done" been waiting for a loong time since it will enable me to keep most of my work in blender instead of shuffling it back and forth. Plus there are some internal rigging solutions in blender that give some really nice results. *waits*
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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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TonyDPrime (6/4/2018)
Cool test YoYoMaster. I think it will be cool to see what Blender Evee is capable of.
I find that look on par with Unreal and Unity. You have to mess with the materials in those as well, almost to the point where it's quite laborious.
Much quicker getting things done in iClone. But is it just my imagination, or iClone doesn't render that 'sharp', right?
Not to me at least, as for the materials, Eevee uses the Principled shader, same as the Disney shader, very simple to use either by using nodes(top), or the shader editor(right), that scene only has a HDR for lightning, I was a bit lazy setting it up! 
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By benhairston - 6 Years Ago
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Hey Yoyomaster,
Was this an FBX import or an Alembic file? Been trying to import stuff for about a week with no luck.
Your render looks great. Evee is pretty promising.
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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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FBX, right out of the latest iClone with default settings in Blender FBX import, I imported in 2.79b, then opened the file in latest 2.8.
I am tweaking it a bit as we speak, will post the new render when done, looks a lot better so far!!
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By benhairston - 6 Years Ago
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Ahh. That's probably where I went wrong. I was trying to do everything in 2.8. I will give that a shot. Thanks!
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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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Blender 2.8 is not even in beta yet, many of the tools are still not working, FBX import is one of them!
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By Famekrafts - 6 Years Ago
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yoyomaster (6/4/2018)
TonyDPrime (6/4/2018)
Cool test YoYoMaster. I think it will be cool to see what Blender Evee is capable of.
I find that look on par with Unreal and Unity. You have to mess with the materials in those as well, almost to the point where it's quite laborious.
Much quicker getting things done in iClone. But is it just my imagination, or iClone doesn't render that 'sharp', right?Not to me at least, as for the materials, Eevee uses the Principled shader, same as the Disney shader, very simple to use either by using nodes(top), or the shader editor(right), that scene only has a HDR for lightning, I was a bit lazy setting it up!
Problem is node system doesn't work like cycles. The same project in cycles doesn't render well in Eevee without fixing the materials and textures.
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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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Famekrafts (6/4/2018)
Problem is node system doesn't work like cycles. The same project in cycles doesn't render well in Eevee without fixing the materials and textures.
I setup this file in Cycles, then opened it in Eevee, if you use the Principled shader, you are basically there, just a few things that are different, like in Eevee you get several modes for transparency, but the scene will render without having to change anything!
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By Famekrafts - 6 Years Ago
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yoyomaster (6/4/2018)
Famekrafts (6/4/2018)
Problem is node system doesn't work like cycles. The same project in cycles doesn't render well in Eevee without fixing the materials and textures. I setup this file in Cycles, then opened it in Eevee, if you use the Principled shader, you are basically there, just a few things that are different, like in Eevee you get several modes for transparency, but the scene will render without having to change anything!
Wasn't using Principled shader before normally diffuse and toon only with blend, just started using a month back. So that could be the hiccup.
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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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The principled shader is great, and so easy, you want glass, no problems, set roughness to zero, transmission to 1, walla, you want frosted glass, no problems, just krank up transmission roughness!
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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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Worked on it a bit, made transparency work, sorta, added a sun light, not much really, looks better IMHO, next I will look at strand hair in Eevee, should be interesting!
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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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here is a hair preview in Eevee, hair does not render yet according to a developer, coming soon, but it gives an idea!
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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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Working on a last test, in this one I figured out transparency and few other things looks a lot better this way!
Will render the full animation when I have time, but so far Eevee is promising, could very well become a good tool to replace iClone real-time engine, which is lacking IMHO, not to mention that with Eevee you get all the goodies that comes with Blender!
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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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Not iClone related, but it gives a decent look at how far Blender 2.8 and Eevee are in development, really cool stuff!
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By yoyomaster - 6 Years Ago
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Latest test in Eevee importing iClone animation, in this one I fixed the eyes and transparency, took around 1.5 second per frame, which isn't bad considering Blender 2.8 is not even beta yet! Blender 2.8 will definitely be in my pipeline, along with iClone, now if CC3 could come out!
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