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Engage Thrusters
At this point, we're almost done with the scene setup, the only things we need to do are
seing the world background to black and adjusing some seings for the composiing.
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World
tab of
the
Properties Editor
and set the
Horizon Color
to enirely black.
The inal details of the scene setup are required for feeding the composiing setup
with the correct data and telling Blender to use the composite result instead of the
raw render.
1.
Let's go to the
Render
tab of the
Properties Editor
and adjust the seings
as follows:
F
Layers panel:
Scene: layers 1 and 2
Layer: layers 1 and 2
Passes: enable Combined, Z, and Object Index
2.
F
Dimensions panel:
Resoluion: 1920 X, 1080 Y, 100%
F
Post Processing panel:
Composiing: Enabled
The only special things we need to do here are to include the Object Index pass
(needed to extract the atmosphere object in the composiing) and making sure the
render pipeline will take into account the composiing setup that we'll be creaing.
For the render size, we set values that play well with the seings in the composiing
nodes that we'll create.
3. Let's also rename the scene to 'earth-scene' before going on into the
Node Editor
.
4. Now let's switch to the Composiing screen of our ile by using the drop-down menu
that is immediately on the right-hand side of the
Help
entry of the main menu. In
the
Node Editor
, let's enable the Composiing nodes opion in the header of the
editor (located in the botom of it) and also enable
Use Nodes
.
5. Then let's disconnect the link between the default render layer node and the
composite node (drag it away from the input of the
Composite
node) and move the
composite node to the right-hand side.
6. Create three nodes without connecing them to the main low of the setup. The
reason to do this is because this group is used in three different places of the
setup. We can create a small 'template' to easily duplicate it later. Let's look at the
following screenshot, showing the group alone:
