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Is it possible to get the length of a ray inside an object with nodes?
Is it possible to get the distance a ray travels inside an object with cycles material nodes?
Then map it to a 0-1 range to create a map:
E.g. to adjust the color of a Glass node to make it more ...
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Dot matrix display in Cycles?
Is it possible to make a dot matrix look with cycles?
I attempted this with the following node setup:
However, the dots should be round, and each dot should only have one color. As you can see, this ...
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Is it Possible to Create an Opalescence Shader in Cycles?
Is it possible to make an Opalescent shader in cycles?
From Wikipedia:
Opalescence is a type of dichroism seen in highly dispersed systems
with little opacity. The material appears yellowish-red ...
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Is it possible to use the output of a Renderlayer in the material nodes of another RenderLayer?
Is it possible to use the rendered output of one renderlayer in the materials on another render layer?
How can I achieve this?
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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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Adaptative ray bounces in Cycles
Sometimes, in order to avoid noise and render faster, I set the bounces to 0. The problem is that I don't get any reflection on water, glass, etc. I know that some nodes provide tests to stop a ray (...
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Rendering Translucent Materals through Glass in Cycles
I am trying to make a realistic orange juice in a glass scene, but the glass seems to mess things up, as can be demonstrated by enabling "no caustics"
Without glass with caustics, with the glass ...
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Cycles viewport render different than f12 render?
What could cause this?
f12:
Viewport:
(the f12 has fewer samples, but even when the viewport is at lower samples it looks different..)
I know about color management, but that is at the defaults..
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How To Create a Matte Car Paint Material?
This is something that has been irking me for a while, as I've been working on a car project. I'm trying to create a paint (in cycles) similar to the the material in this image:
The problem is, ...
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