New tutorial: Volumetric Projectors!
Added 2025-10-19 16:46:11 +0000 UTCHello!
I've finally finished my new tutorial! I feel like I've been working on this on and off forever now, and now it's finally out!
In this video we're using the amazing Volume Scatter shader in Cycles to create some really detailed animated volumetric projectors!
For our animated texture, we'll be using a Glass Knot texture made with a technique I've shown in a previous livestream. I'll also briefly show how I'm using my new Animated Pattern Generator web app to create our own animated textures!
The attached project file comes as a .zip file, so I can include the animated texture with a relative file path (Blender doesn't support embedding image sequences/videos). This means if you unzip and open the .blend file right away (without moving any files), the projected texture should work! And then you can replace it with your own texture (or video recording!) if you want to.
If you feel the tutorial is too short, I also made a much longer more in-depth video on my 2nd channel, where I take a deep dive of the entire process. It's probably not the most coherent video in the world, but hopefully it's interesting to see how the process sometimes can be!
💗 Advanced Project Files
If you want to support my work and get some juicy project files in return, please consider checking out the Advanced Project File tier! You will get access to these four lighting scenes from this project, as well as my growing collection of advanced project files!
Looking forward to see what you will create with this lighting technique!
- Polyfjord 🌊
