Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook - Third Edition

Creating a fake volume light material

In this recipe, we will create a material to fake the typical effect of a cone of light visible when passing through the dust suspended in the air, or falling from the sky on a cloudy day (the so-called God's rays) different from the real volumetric effect described in the There's more section of the Using Cycles volume materials recipe. This is a fake—just a mesh and not a real light to be used for the scene. Therefore, a matching Lamp must be set for the real lighting, as shown in the already made blend file.

The fake volume cone of light as it appears in the final rendering

Getting ready

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