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Creating a Black Hole in Blender
I recently saw the film Interstellar and it was fantastic! The effects blew me away and it got me in the mood to try and re create the black hole, however I haven't been able to find any information ...
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Iridescence In Cycles?
Is it possible to create an iridescence shader in Cycles?
Specifically for something like DVDs, soap bubbles, engine oil, etc..
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How do I emit light from inside a object?
I need to know how to make the buttons in my blender project look the same as in this photo. Mine all look pale, even with the emission material. Is there anyway I can get my buttons like this?
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How to create a visible material that does not emit or reflect light?
I need to make a plane in the background that is independent of any lighting in the scene. This means that it does not emit light, and it does not reflect light, but it is visible. It is so I can ...
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How to make small objects emit a ton of light?
So, I'm trying to create a chemical plant model, and you know how when you drive past an oil refinery at night it's all lit up with dozens of lights and it looks really cool?
That's what I'm going ...
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How do I make objects ignore certain Light sources? [duplicate]
I have a scene which has a spot light as the main light source. To get the scene as bright as I want, I have to set the value for the strength to be quite high, something like 5000. The problem is, ...
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Make light visible once it passed through a transparent object
I am looking for a better solution to make light in Cycles only visible, once it passed through a transparent object.
Example which is actually pretty close but has a few flaws, see below
A doorframe ...
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How to make Shadows-Only Render
How can I achieve the following effect? Here, we see all shadows, and nothing else.
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How do you make an image emission without washing out the image?
I am trying to make a computer monitor. This means I have to have an image texture for the screen. My image texture is currently connected to an Emission BSDF shader. Unfortunately, when the emission ...
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Transparent blue plastic material which emits light
Hi I am creating a Doctor who Sonic screwdriver model in Blender and am having difficulties creating the material for the blue light on the end. Preferably I'd like one material which emits light and ...
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Soft lighting through translucent material in cycles
I'm making an interior scene in which all light comes from a window with a curtain. This is an image that shows the effect I'm trying to achieve:
The light source is a plane with an emissive material ...
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ignore self-shadows for a cel shaded effect?
So For this project i'm trying to achieve somewhat of a cel-shaded look. Cel Shading is an attempt to make 3D Art look 2D, But The Main problem I've found with Cel Shading effects is the shadows are &...
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Make texture visible in sunlight
I would like to make my textures visible in sunlight. I adjusted the exposure but that didn't help:
Right now when sunlight hits my textures they turn white. I want to be able to see the texture even ...
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Strange black shading. Cannot fully light mesh. (Cycles)
Here is the viewport in material view. The node setup is just a PNG texture into a diffuse shader.
And this is in rendered view. I've tried using environmental lighting as well as a directional ...
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Make light paths only pass through non-emitted areas?
I'm trying to make it so that the plane is transparent except for the light from the aqua emission. Or in other words, how can I make it so that the plane's white areas are transparent and the plane's ...
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