Did you know Blender 2.8 has a free material add-on? Follow the step by step instructions to get some great looking materials. All the nodes are set up for you or just edit it however you want. No additional downloads required and it’s all free.

1. In Blender Go to Edit > Preferences

2. Within the Add-ons Search Bar, type in Material. The Material: Material Library will pop up. Select the checkbox to activate it.

3. Select and object and on the right tab select the Material Tab and click on the New button to create a new [...]

Quickly remove the environment image from your Cycles render.

1.. Change your Render Engine to Cycles from the Render tab.

2. Click on the Film tab. This will review additional parameters below.

3. Select Transparency, the background will become transparent in the viewport.(When press F12 to render the background will remain as an alpha).\

Version: Blender 2.8 Beta (March 2019)Type of application: 3D SoftwareRelated Sections: General / Rendering

Blender is an open source software for 3D creation. It offers modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and video editing used for [...]

Remove the environment image from your Eevee render is hidden in a few tabs.

1. Select the Render tab from the icon menu (Camera Icon).

2. Click on the Film tab. This will review additional parameters below.

3. On the Alpha field select Sky and choose Transparency. This selection will make the render object contain an alpha.

4. Press F12 on the keyboard to render the scene. Now your rendered image does not have an environment HDRI background.

Unfortunately at this stage I have not found a solution to remove the HDRI background image from the viewport. If this feature does exist, please drop a comment below.

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