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Creating a glimmer effect animation with a curve. How to control the glimmer with a BW mask?
Im trying to create this glimmer as you can see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_Worldwide#/media/File:Woman_Worldwide.jpg
By turning it into a curve with an emission material and a black and ...
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Realistic material for Moon landscape
I'm trying to create a realistic material for my moon landscape The real image has a lot more details, but I'm interested in the white areas exposed to sunlight. I would like this to be a property of ...
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How to make material that recieves shadows but has no self-shadows?
I am looking to create a stylized material that receives shadows from other materials, but has no self-shadow / shading. I created this image to communicate what I mean by self-shadow, the image on ...
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Why does my transparent/glass material change the colours of objects that sit inside of it, how to fix this?
How come my coloured material appears different when situated inside my glass/transparent material. is there a work around so that the colour displays correctly inside the glass?
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Blender point lights: random colour by Object ID
For my exterior visualisations I'm trying to develop a lighting system which allows me to randomize the colors of groups of lamps, instead of all lamps individually.
The practical application of this ...
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How would I take the average color of a material (lighting included) and turn that into a flat color?
I know that's very specific. I think the best use case other than my very specific one would be if you were making a scene out of voxels, and wanted each voxel to be a flat color, but still wanted ...
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Make duo-tone illustrations by seperating colors
I'm working on a workflow to make duotone illustrations. I like to work with emission shaders for this, because they eliminate all lightbounces, thereby it requires almost no rendertime and gives me a ...
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Is there a dynamic light-amount dependent material change node setup?
I have a mountain scene and I want to reduce snow only from the bright areas of a plane.
Is there a way to do this dynamically, so I dont have to use vertex paint, and it reacts to light change?
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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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How to Achieve a Strong Metallic Reflection Presence on a Scattered Material?
I am building a model which a piece of black paper is stamped with a reflective silver foil. This is being built in Blender 2.83, using cycles render. I have tried my best to set up a material for ...
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How to make an object not receive light from world?
I have a project of a character laying on a plane and the world is full of stars. Problem is the colors of the world are reflecting on the character whereas i want him to be free from all reflections. ...
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Material emitting only in dark parts of an object
I would really need to know if it is possible to make an object have a material, that emmits only in the lit parts of an object. The dark parts would remain dark. I am using Eevee with Bloom turned on ...
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My object is not affected by light
In viewport shading, I have screen lights and world view on. I turn down the color of my world from grey to black. Everything else in my scene is affected by the dim light, but not my character's ...
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How to imitate early CGI style animation?
I just finished the doughnut tutorial series and wanted to know what I need to learn next. I was wondering whether anyone has any advice about how to make the shading and water/fire simulations/...
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How to cull the backside of a mesh but keep the lights inside?
First off: the "backface culling" option for materials doesn't seem to do anything.
Second: I got the effect I wanted (almost) by using the Geometry node to mix a Transparent shader with a ...
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Make Emission Gradient local
I have this sort of sci-fi scene with ambient emission lights. I would like to have a gradient for each of them. Somehow my setup creates a gradient over the entire image rather than localized for ...
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Light Path node works weirdly for Background
For some reason, LightPath node doesn't work expectedly. When I plug in 'Is Diffuse Ray' output, I want to exclude all Diffuse rays but they stay. It works for Glossy ray and Camera ray, but why don't ...
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Is there a way i could speed up my work?
I'm macbook pro 18 user and complete beginner. I thought my computer can handle Blender 2.82 but I couldn't even add materials on my project. On view mode eevee works fine but on cycles it just stop ...
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Making a circular fade to transparent with nodes
So I have made my y axis of this plane 'fade' to transparent ...
any idea how I can set up some nodes to make it start fading from the blue circle and then be fully transparent by the time it ...
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Use incoming light as a mask?
I'm making a shader for people that relies heavily on the ability to take incoming light and use it as a way of blending 2 materials. For Eevee, it works perfectly. Take a diffuse shader, plug it into ...
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How to create a material which lets light pass through unaffected?
Ok, so im looking to make a material which;
allows 100% of light to pass through unaffected. As if the surface was never there.
allows normal textures to be applied as usual whilst looking as it ...
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Isolate light cast on a surface through glass
I have a white plane and a glass object on top of it, with 2 spotlights casting light through the glass object. This causes a lot of light to be cast onto the white plane.
I want to turn the plane ...
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Shadows form hdri are harsh and noisy
Can anyone help me light this indoor scene? The shadows are so harsh or the noise is so much in every render. Can't get it to look good at all.
I am just using an hdri and the oversized light bulb ...
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Why Do My Objects Render Without Materials? [Ceramic] [duplicate]
So, I'm trying to make some ceramic (copied some nodes from online) objects for a practice project, but I can't get it to show up when Rendering. I tried to simplify, just apply it to a sphere, but I ...
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Reduce reflections
I've got a textured table with some objects placed on top. However, I'm unhappy with their reflections on the table surface: how can I reduce such reflections?
I'm using the following node setup for ...
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How to get transparent iridescence using Cycles?
I've succeeded getting iridescent with this Cycles node setup:
Physical iridescence in Cycles?
This did the job, however I need a transparent/clear iridescence like this
So I tried plugging the ...
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Prevent World from coloring Glass
I have a scene with some glass windows that show through to the World background. For now, the world is just a flat color. But in post, a different background will be photoshopped in. So I need the ...
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How to put one material where the light is hitting and one where the light isn't?
So I want to create an object using cycles render that has two different materials applied to it. One of the materials can only be seen on the object where the light is hitting and the other material ...
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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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