Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook

Compositing the scene

The materials for our scene are ready, but we still need to make the final touches before we can call it ready. To do this, we will do some compositing.

Getting ready

Before we start, we need to activate the Mist layer in the Layer menu, which is right next to the Rendering menu. Here, we need to check the Mist option along with the various available passes. Once the option is active, a new Mist panel will appear in the World tab. Here, we can set the options of Mist, but for this scene the default options will be good. Now, let's move to the node editor and click on the Compositing button.

How to do it...

To composite the scene, we need to perform the following steps:

1. Add an Image node by navigating to Add menu | Input, and load ...