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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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