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The next box in our cinematic lighting checklist
is adding atmospheric haze. haze is a really

powerful tool that cinematographers
use in movies to tame the dynamic

range, to soften up the contrast, to make the
light beams visible alongside other things,

in order to haze this environment first
thing that we need to do is obviously add

a new collection, name it fog_01 and
then we'll need some kind of a box, a container,

I'm gonna add a cube, scale it up so it
encompasses all the objects within the

scene, it's a shame it blocks the view entirely,
so I'm going to jump into the object properties

menu and in the display drop down select bounds.
then it's a matter of setting up a new material,

which will actually be the volume material.
let's get into the shader editor first, then

delete the default principled bsdf, go Shift A,
Shader and add the principled volume shader,

plug it right here all the way and lower the
density considerably. we just need to fill our

room up with haze ever so slightly, so I think
the density could be pretty low something like

0.1 or 0.05 even, I'm just looking for this kind of
ethereal glow rather than the Silent Hill fog. okay

the anisotropy value controls this scattering
of the volume material, it is pretty hard to put

in words, we'll have a look at a few examples
later on, let's crank up the density all the

way to 0.2 to make the anisotropy effect visible.
thinking about it, I would put it like that and

I'm not sure how precise is this explanation
of anisotropy and what's actually going on, but

I feel that the higher anisotropy values kind
of shift the scattering of the volume shader

towards the... the light source, let's say at 0
it's a totally uniform scattering and at 0.75

and higher we start to see how it shifts towards
our area light here. and at the negative values

it kind of moves it away from the light source, I
know this explanation may sound a little bit murky, hehe :))

in theory the higher anisotropy values might look
like smoke and steam while the lower, even negative

anisotropy values may look like dust, the best way
to know it is to play with it yourself I guess.

I'm setting the density back to 0.05 or even
lower than that... yeah, I think that... that looks good.

is this kind of enhancement to the depth and
overall dimension of the scene that allows

the foreground objects to pop out, it sets up
different tiers of contrast throughout the

scene, here we have a dark foreground and then a
still pretty high contrast within the mid-ground

figure which is our mineral pack, then a totally
washed out backdrop which has a relatively low

contrast in between the shaded and lit areas. the
mid-ground contrast ratio is much more abrupt,

it just naturally makes this object closer to
the camera stand out just due to the contrast

levels, that's probably one of the major things
about this image. and there is something very

prominently cinematic about this combination of
the extra depth and dimension created by the haze

and at the same time, the actual extra readability
of the center of interest, that is a powerful stuff.

and of course with the harder light sources
like our sunshine it allows us to see the

beam, to see *the beamage* or *beaminess* that
is also called light shafts and god rays.

nice beautiful rays of sunshine that give
texture to the volume or space we are in.

so that was atmospheric haze, one more component
of our cinematic lighting formula. what's next?