If you don’t like the way the mist is looking, see how to solve it down below. Let’s jump onto the next step and figure out how to actually combine the two with each other (and some other fun tricks). I think it looks quite nice even without the mist, but the mist pass gives it another vibe completely. The above scene is a render I just finished, it’s a stylized take on the Old Town of Stockholm. Composite > ViewLayer > Combined > Mist Left is the normal render, and right shows the mist pass. This is because Blender defaults to viewing the “composite”, we need to switch from composite to ViewLayer. When pressing the render button, nothing seems to be changed, yet again. This is where the mist pass is enabled.įor convenience sake, I have already a scene loaded up in Blender and got my mist pass enabled. At first glance, it doesn’t change anything in your scene and this is because this is a “View Layer”, meaning it’s a separate layer of your render which can be used for compositing later on. To enable the mist pass, you have to go into the View Layer Properties and look for the ” Mist ” checkbox. The mist pass is most often used instead of volumetric fog inside of Blender because it’s way faster. Other software usually calls it a depth pass, so if you know what that is, you’ll have no problem understanding Blender’s take on it. The mist pass is a separate render layer of your scene that calculates depth.

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