Perfectly taught, thank you. I wish other tutorials were this straight forward.

This is probably the most helpful tutorial I have seen in a long time. Thanks dropping for that knowledge on us!

Lane is a master of the straight forward easy to follow tutorial - bravo!

Holy moly, that was way more useful than all the other Videos I've seen on this. Thank you for sharing this method, it is extremely helpful.

Perfectly done been looking for a video like this 😍😍😍😍

This is gonna help me so much with my render times, I've been always doing this with volumetric absorption and volumetric scattering and the rendering due to is was hurting so much Thankyou

Were has this tutorial been all of my life. Thanks bro.

exactly what i was looking for

Awesome! I was racking my brains a few days ago trying to figure out how to do this with my slow laptop. Thank you so much.

I’ve watched about every mist pass tutorial on KZfaq. This ones the best.

Super helpful tutorial, was exactly what I needed

This was super super super helpful. Thank you so much

i been looking for this for so long! thanks man

This is really really nice, thank you so much! This is really helpful. One thing I noticed is that the light beams from the four windows behind the red monkey get put overtop of the monkey. The light beams should be behind the monkey because the light source is behind the money.

Lovely tips for reducing the render time when volumetric involved!!!

Lane Wallace, you are good person for sharing this. ove it and I'm going to use it right now.

Damn you're a good tutor, man...looking forward to more tutorials. Subbed.

This has helped me so much. Thank you!

You’re blowing up xD Yet another high quality video

EXACTLY what i needed, thx!

Awesome tutorial! thanks a lot

Absolute legend. Thank you!!

This help me to understand compositing, thanks :)

This is the kind of compositing I was looking for. All other videos just show something like "yeah, here you have a color ramp to tint your rendering. And here is the denoiser. I hope you liked the tutorial, cya." Probably, because that's everything they know.

Awesome tutorial!

I had no idea about this mist settings in world tab, thanks!

I was gonna try to use mist for those fake volumetric effects and I did not even had to try cause I found your awesome video. We call it 'jugaad' (meaning, using what we have already have to achieve the goal we want) in India and I love that. Thanks for the trick!

Thank you so much for this🙏🏼

Really great video! One suggestion: if you use premier pro to edit these videos, there is a deesser audio effect in premier pro which reduces those sharp S sound.

Saved for future reference! Thank you.

The effect looks pretty neat, but it seems to me, that it's probably not very applicable with more complex lighting setups. Either way I'm glad you made this video, since I've never seen the sunbeam node in the compositor, and it seems to work pretty well for an indors directional sunlight. I wish cycles volumetrics weren't as painfully slow and noisy, since i love the foggy look. I'd probably have every other scene shrouded in fog if it wasn't so taxing on my gpu...

For those who whose composite not visible in final Render : - Connect ur output and viewer both to Bokesh blur if it doesn't work save ur file and restart blender it worked for me after restarting 👍

This just saved my life!

...then you add a Sun Beams node and WOW !! What a magic !! Thank you so much for this tip, very usefull .

You are a great vfx artist

Wow, it's really amazing... You are expert👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼✨👆🏼👌

Very clear, even at 1.5 speed! Thanks :)

I genuinely think that you are fantastic at creating content. Start adding some spice to the videos and maybe an intro. Also, I cant believe I left last time without subscribing. It wont happen again😎Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff🤘❤️🚀

Now i understand the function of the render layers in properties.

amazing!!!🙏🚀

thank you, your mist method works with Eevee too, great :)

Very Cool, and useful to me...

thank you so much

amazing info!!! you chirp like a bird.

Nice trick with the Sun Beam..

What would be a good way to do this on an outdoor scene? I get better results if I add that emissive plane in, but then ofc it can be seen in the scene. I tried removing it from the rendered area, or disabling camera in ray visibility, but both remove the effect entirely.

This is sickk

Thank you for this tip! Your render is so fast!!! Is it 3090?)

❤️ I like yellow flowers too

woooaaahhh THANK YOU...

Huge thanks! But I had a question, does it work the same way as if making mist from Noise Texture? I make animations and found out that noise texture type of nodes really kills the time of render, takes it too long.

why I can't see the results on the render shot?

Thanks :)

good tutorial. (Gimme a heart :D)

Hi Lane, does this work with 1 photo only? What if I want to do a whole sequences?

nice

niiice thanks!

Voodoo!!!! ❤️

If only I had found this video 3 days ago, would have relived me of some 23 rendering hours....

except the issue that since you didn't use a zbuffer, the lightbeams that were supposed to be behind the first head is in front of it.

crazy.

I have other light sources (from objects etc.) that are also creating sun beams even though I don't want them to. is there a way to exclude these from the sun beams

Thanks for sharing, but what if I have an HDR light instead of emission? How to fix inside object in this case? thanks!!

smart ;)

Do you share any of your .blend files? It'd be cool to pick them apart and study them, even when they are just simple like this.

This works at a glance, but upon closer inspection the lighting isn't realistic at all in this example - the beam from the second window, behind the red Suzanne, is appearing in front of her, not behind her like it should. Same thing with all the window beams that should only appear behind her.

thanks for this amazing tutorial ! I still have one question ! My light come from a sky texture so putting a plane (so the sun beams will come from it only) is hiding my sky and so my render... Would you have a solution for me ? Thanks :)

Wow does this mean that we could do an underwater realistic scene with this method or not since it would cover the whole scene?

Cool, just what i was looking for. Not sure how it will work for my outdooor scene re emissvie plane bit will mess around a bit

Is it possible to use this method for animated one?

what if I needed to animate the scene

Why when I go in compositing I dont see my render ?

Is it better to use compositing in place of volumetrics. Composition also tooks a large amount of memory and time to process

One doubt it's not showing up in final render?

Is the emissive plain supposed to have another effect besides telling the node where to draw the rays from?

can you provide me the HDRI images for this video

It doesn't work. The mist is added, I can change it's color and thickness, but there are no sun beams. I've checked the node, it's correct. Can it be that some settings are wrong?

How can I do this if my light source (the sun) is out of the frame? is there a way to mask the sun beans from outside of the render?

easy way to save 30' of render

But why Not use volumemetrics?

I couldn't find the Emit layer on the Render Layers node. How do you enable it?

Sir what's your pc specs

How to save image after compositing????

it's just a miracle, but for some reason, the result is not displayed in the render. Please help me!

Is this Cycles only?

I'm too lazy lmao

does it work in eevee?

does it work for animation

does also work for eevee?

Dude buy a pop filter and spit out that bird in your mouth... Other then that good video

Lane u spelt volumetric wrong in ur blender file

actually you can add the sunbeams to the lightgroup containing your main scene light, works fine