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What is EEVEE and Hydra?

What is EEVEE and Hydra? - Blender Tutorial

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What is EEVEE and Hydra?

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- [Instructor] In this video, I want to compare Cycles to Eevee and the new Hydra rendering engine. Let's take a look at Cycles really quick. When I click on this render button, you can see that I see some real beautiful casting of shadows. The lighting looks really great and I get a lot of rich darkness and some kind of bounce light around here. It's generally a really pretty render. You can also turn off the overlays and gizmos so you can really appreciate it. Those buttons are right up here. Now let's go ahead and flip to Eevee. In Eevee, you still get some of those shadows, but they look very blocky. And you can see I've lost a lot of that self shadowing over here and things just generally look kind of flat. That's because Cycles is a ray trace rendering engine, so it's literally bouncing light rays around and showing some places of brightness and some places of real darkness. And in Eevee, you don't get all of…

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