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Cycles - Object instancing
I am trying to create a scene with instanced object. So far I found a way to do it like this:
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How can I make cotton batting or a material similar to it
I want to make this cotton batting in blender but having a hard time figuring out how to get this result. Would really appreciate some help.
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normal map error in mesh with subsurface
I was making my character for study, I made the model with many vertices, then I made the retopology, so far so good, I put the color texture and the normal map, but when activating the subsurface, I ...
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Inconsistent Roughness & Warping on Mesh
Hate to be the #9058609436043 person to ask a question about the damn donut render, but I'm trying to decipher the why behind these visual aberrations on my icing AND the clipping happening with ...
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Blending a dirt path [closed]
I recently ran into this problem where I need to blend 2 textures together for a dirt path I'm making.
This is what I currently have:
And this is what I'm going for:
So my question is, how would one ...
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How to create material that goes along curved mesh?
Excuse me, I have a cube, which has a curve modifier applied to it. I want to create a material that goes along the curved mesh, like this image below:
Here is my setup, which doesn't work:
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Mirrored object is textured incorrectly
While making the eyes for a character I was creating, I came across an issue where when I mirrored the first eyeball, the result was textured incorrectly.
As you can see in the picture above, the ...
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Inventor imported object has different reflective properties than blender made one
I've been using Inventor 2020 for some mesh design for different things and decided to test an imported object and how well I could create materials for it in Blender.
For some reason however, the ...
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Is it possible to have seamless material blending on two separate objects?
I'm looking for a way to make more seamless joints between separate objects when rendered with cycles.
I've noticed that joining multiple meshes will create a seamless edge, even between different ...
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I want to make the wax material used in the intro to daredevil
so im looking to make a melting wax material, I figured out the wax part. but not the waves and the dark wax drips in it.
i would love to find out how to animate it as well. I tried the wave node but ...
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How to distort (in this case) letters, patterns etc underneath a water drop?
I’m interested on how to distort typography, patterns etc. which partially lie underneath a drop of liquid. See example below.
How would you approach this?
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How to select meshes with transparent materials applied to them only?
I want to select all meshes which a transparent material (e.g. glass) has been applied, when using Cycles (if it matters at all)? I just know how to select meshes with any kind of material applied to ...
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Mesh will not show any material colors in the cycles quick render (shift + z) [duplicate]
I have a part of my mesh that is supposed to have an emission material (applied in cycles). I can see the material in the preview window on the side, and the nodes are the same as any other basic ...
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Volume Scattering problem
Good day!
I would love to have a fog in my project, but I couldn't make it happen, because my project has a giant island which I want to make all foggy, but Volume Scattering seems to not work ...
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What is causing the bright edges on this mesh when using volume emission shaders?
I've followed an old Blender Guru tutorial on creating muzzle flash, using it in Cycles instead of Blender Render as he did. The mesh is shaped like a rounded double-ended cone, then has Subsurf and ...
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Is there a way to round corners on material level?
Is there a shader that can be used on material level that will give the effect of round edges when assigned to an object? I'm not looking to increase the mesh density, I remember in 3DS Max, Mental ...
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How can I create a bump line across an object using textures?
I want to create a photo realistic lego man in bender cycles.
But the problem is that I cant figure out how to use my black and white texture
to make this little bump line across the lego minifigures ...
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Gradient between two materials on the same mesh
I am trying to colorize a mesh for a 3d illustration, and I have been using Steven's technique so far.
The problem is that, as Stephen notes at the end of his answer, the contrast between the two ...
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Multiple materials on a specific shape? [duplicate]
Using cycles, how would I go about making text that is UV mapped onto a surface (in this case a book cover) have a gloss while the remaining part of the image stays matte? The text needs a kind of ...
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Combining two shaders, one with color map, one with a specularity map
I'm trying to add a specularity map to a mesh with a color map shader already on it. However, when I attempt this, I seem to have to choose between one shader or another (see the ...
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How can I adjust Cycles material displacement amount?
The experimental feature set in Blender 2.75 includes an option to allow the displacement socket of the material output node actually displace the mesh instead of acting as bump-mapping.
However I ...
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Shader artifacts rendering in some spots of the mesh
When I render my model in Cycles (I applied a dummy material just to check), there are some bad/glitched shadows in some spots.
Like this:
But, in shaded view (smooth shading applied to the whole ...
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