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Material question - how to make this reflective?
Ok, I have a diffuse/emissive material applied to the large blue cube below:
This is created with these nodeS:
Ive tried adding in some sort of glossy node but am not versed with in depth making ...
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Reflection of floor materials
I'm a Blender newbie, following a tutorial. The floor is dull, showing no glossy contrast like in the tutorial (shown in the lower part in the picture). Even if I raise the power of the environment ...
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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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Change emission without affecting material color though glass
I know that I can change the emission value of a material without increase the brightness of the object using "Is Camera Ray" socket of Light Path node, but how do I change it when the light is coming ...
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Emission Problems in Blender Render
So I'm trying to make an intro for my youtube channel, and I made a shockwave effect for the background. It looks great, and as expected, my username without a material is pitch black in the render ...
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Lighting problem in cyles
I have a problem with lighting that i can't fix, I have a mesh in the form of a light bulb with an emission material set to the strength of 5000 and no matter what i up the strength to the bulb object ...
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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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How to change color of glossy highlights?
let's say, I have a texture with black background and yellow skulls everywhere on it.
I want the black background to have a white reflection color and the yellow skulls i want to have a black "...
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How to reflect a beam of light on a mirror using cycles? [duplicate]
In the context of a tutorial, I need to create this experience using a light spot on cycle engine.
We can replace persons with other objects. I tried to do it using this answer mirror but the mirror ...
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Object turns dark when using normal map in Cycles
I have been using Blender for a while, however up until recently I have only used Blender Render. I started to get interested in Cycles, and somehow it worked fine like Blender Render, up until i ...
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Is it possible to determine emission shader value by other lights?
Is it possible to take a lamp/sun/point light and use it as a value on the scene to tell materials that are not affected by the light source to emit their own light?
This is photoshopped example of ...
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Why is the color white darkened through glass?
So here are two pictures, the first one Has the outer eye object, which is just solid glass, and the inner eye, which is has a UV map of an eye. The second having just the inner eye. I took a ...
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How can I get a Sin City/300 monotone and grayscale style
I don't know that I'm using monotone and grayscale in the right way, but I'm curious how to make a scene with has either only one tone like the use of Red in the movie 300, or something like sin city, ...
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Object inner is black with clipping camera for cutaway view - add inner lighting?
I am using cutaway view with camera clipping, and managed to show the cut area by geometry node, looks soo good, but see the image there is a cube with room inside,
it is black because no light can ...
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How to create a reflective diffraction grating with cycles?
I have been wondering how to create a diffraction grating material with cycles.
From the Wikipedia article:
In optics, a diffraction grating is an optical component with a periodic structure, ...
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