High-Contrast God Rays with This Simple Trick - Blender Tutorial 

Thank you for watching, :)

Glad it helped!

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you. Blender's toolset is a double edged sword. While it gives us so much freedom, the sheer number of parameters is also daunting.

@@sinasinaie yes, definitely, I agree with that, but blender's UI isn't always helpful here, because it's not usually particularly intuitive. One little thing that people often say about learning new 'systems', whatever they may be, is that very often, 80%+ of the time, you only need to know 20% of the feature set. So I believe that I will manage this at some stage, once I've worked out which skills I need, and how to do them. That means watching videos like yours, and using things like 'Blender Secrets' (Jan van de Hemel). It's not exactly the most methodical way of learning, but it is working ... and I think that's how most people end up learning how to do complex tasks like this. I think it's important to remember what we're actually trying to do here. Recreating reality, or some version of it, was never going to be easy. But the fact that we *can* learn how to do it, is nothing short of amazing. Btw, I would like to say how much I liked the thumbnail for the video. It's a little marvel of good design, and really lured me into watching the video! 🚀

Many thanks for taking the time to share your viewpoint. Yes, the 80-20 certainly applies here, and it seems like you're on the right track. Also, thanks for the feedback on the thumbnail. It's something I have been struggling with, and every bit of feedback helps. :)

Glad it was helpful!

Happy to help!

Thanks for watching!

Great to hear!

Thanks 😄

:D

Thank you for the nice little comment, :)

Yes, that would be another way to do it.

Thank you. It depends on the HDRI that you are using, so the only way to know is to try it out. When you have your scene set up, play around with the "power" of the godray light.

Thanks, :) I created the books using geometry nodes, so it was only a matter of keyframing one of the parameters. You can create the same effect with the "array" modifier too. Simply key-frame the "count" of the array modifier.

Thank you for watching. :) You make a great point, I wouldn't be surprised if causes some problems when it comes to eevee.

I hope you find it useful, :)

Yes, fiddling around with light size and angel, spread is over now. 🙂🙃@@sinasinaie

Wondering this as well. When I set it up, the light rays look good but everything else looks like shit because it's so dark. A key light doesn't work because of the dust...