Questions tagged [color]
Questions centered around how color is specified, calculated, represented, applied, or processed in Blender. This is not for use as a generic tag. Questions may include topics such as color space, color depth, RGB, CMYK, hue, saturation, brightness, Lab color, hexadecimal color.
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Physical iridescence in Cycles?
Having recently seen the Siggraph paper A Practical Extension to Microfacet Theory for the Modeling of Varying Iridescence, I of course said to myself "I have to have this in Blenderrrrr!" and started ...
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What is the the ASC-CDL node?
The color balance node in the compositor can be switched to use the ASC CDL
How is it used?
How is this different from Lift/Gamma/Gain?
How do the Offset, Power, Slope options affect the image?
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Mix colors from different objects at collision (Rigid Bodies and Particles)
This will be a pretty complex question, many areas will be connected to it but it is for sure focused on one main problem. I'm not sure is it possible without heavy scripting and I didn't found ...
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Color vs. Non-Color data
I was always under the assumption that turning an image to "Non-Color data" that is was converting it to greyscale. Playing around with normal maps it doesn't seem to be doing that at all. So what is ...
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Are there significant differences between Filmic shipped with Blender and its development version?
I've just read that Filmic is not completely implemented: https://developer.blender.org/D2659.
Notes:
The results appear to be identical to the original Filmic config, but I left out some ...
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How do I create array of objects of alternating color?
I want to create a chain that alternates between two colors every x chain link.
This is what I want to model:
The best I could do was use the wave texture node, but then I get chain links that are ...
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Control a ColorRamp node from outside a node group
I have a ColorRamp node inside of a node group and I would like to have a group input which controls the "Pos" value of the white colour, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to do it. Since I'm ...
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Blender halftone pattern filter
I am trying to set up a material that acts as a filter - taking an image plane and giving it a halftone look.
The dot pattern is made wih a radial gradient texture mapped across the camera space. A ...
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Add material and apply Diffuse color via Python
This may be another simple question but I can't seem to find a straight answer.
I am procedurally generating figures and as part of the last step I want to color the figure red.
If I manually add a ...
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Creating a Liquid Bubble Effect
I saw some really cool 3d work here, and I want to know how to recreate this.
What I want in the answer:
How the particle system works (or model)
How to color the layers (the blue, red, and orange)...
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Is there a way to adapt False Color to be seen for color blind people?
I have severe red/green protonopia and find the red and green to be the same when I use False Color mode to calibrate lighting exposure.
I'm wondering if there is a way to get numeric feedback on ...
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Why would I use the "Film Emulation" feature?
From what I can tell, this setting alters the exposure and other parameters to simulate a specific film, however why is this any better than exporting a file format that supports high dynamic range (<...
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Material for Rainbow around Torus
Is there a convenient way to make a rainbow material that varies smoothly along a torus? In the image below, I made a new emission material for each of the 32 segments along the major axis, changing ...
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Realistic Aluminum Material In Cycles?
I need help, making a realistic looking aluminum material, like in the pictures below. I would like to only use procedural textures within Cycles. No external image textures. Can anybody, who ...
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HSV to RGB conversion
let's take the hsv color 0.4, 0.8, 1.0
everywhere I looked this converted to Hex 33FF85 - even in Blender
when I convert it to RGB(using python colorsys, python ...
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