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Hey everyone,

I had a question today over on my Discord about how to render glass with liquid. And in explaining it, I thought it would give me a great chance to show how simple it is to create a holiday candle. And I used Blender 3.0 and some new rendering tricks, including using the shadow catcher feature to render reflections and shadows.

The glass is from the KO-FreeMats KPACKS that comes with KIT OPS FREE and KIT OPS PRO. It's a nice universal glass that works great in both EEVEE and Cycles.

I've included the file here if you want to take a look.

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Blender 3.0 Holiday Candle with Shadow Catcher

I had a question today over on my Discord about how to render glass with liquid. And in explaining it, I thought it would give me a great chance to show how simple it is to create a holiday candle using modifiers. And I used Blender 3.0 and some new rendering tricks, including the Shadow Catcher for reflections and shadows. The glass is from the KO-FreeMats KPACKS that comes with KIT OPS FREE and KIT OPS PRO. It's a nice universal glass that works great in both EEVEE and Cycles. I've included the file on my Patreon. DISCORD http://cw1.me/discord PATREON https://patreon.com/chippwalters KIT OPS 2 PRO https://gum.co/kitopspro https://blendermarket.com/products/kit-ops-pro-asset--kitbashing-addon KIT OPS PARALLAX Blender Market: https://blendermarket.com/products/kit-ops-parallax Gumroad: https://chippwalters.gumroad.com/l/koparallax DESIGN MAGIC https://chippwalters.gumroad.com/l/designmagic https://blendermarket.com/products/design-magic KIT OPS 2 FREE https://gum.co/kitops https://blendermarket.com/products/kit-ops-free SYNTH https://gum.co/kitopssynth https://blendermarket.com/products/kit-ops-synth KIT OPS BATCH https://gumroad.com/l/kitopsbatch https://blendermarket.com/products/kit-ops-batch K-Cycles https://blendermarket.com/products/k-cycles?ref=295 Simply Concept https://blendermarket.com/products/simply-concept/?ref=295

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Lonnon Foster

The Weld modifier before the Bevel is a fantastic trick. I vaguely remember you using that in a past video, but I'd totally forgotten it. I wrote it down this time, because I run across this problem *all the time*, and it's wonderful to have a simple fix for it. Thanks!

Richard Osborn

Superb tutorial! So many subjects covered. Particularly liked the shadow catcher setup at the end - thanks!