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3 votes
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How to achieve this low poly lighting?

Ok, new to 3D lighting overall here and Ive gone through every Blender lighting tutorial for low poly like PigArt, etc but can't achieve this lighting/rendering - low poly so that the triangles are ...
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1 vote
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How to get rid of circular light lines

I have this very simple render. If you see on the picture, there are circular light lines around the cube. Starting with the arrows and until the end of the light. I was wondering if there is a way ...
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Lightroom does not light evenly - Weird light reflections (Cycles) (.blend attached)

I am trying to light my car in a way that the background is quite dark and/but the car has some sharp reflections. I found a Lightroom that I really like because of it^s reflecting floor/walls. The ...
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Control emission shader's falloff using an RGB curve

I have an image light whom I wish to rapidly decay. So I'm trying to mess with it using the curves like on the screenshot I posted. I'm trying with the curve here but to no avail. Could someone guide ...
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Relation between BI and Cycles lamp energy/emission values?

I have two identical scenes, one in BI and one in Cycles. They both have point lamps in the same place (or, in the case of a linked scene, it's the same lamp with different settings in each). The BI ...
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2 votes
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How do i get rid of these black shadows?

I'm trying to render an animation about this children's crib. Essentially I'm creating a "How to install" guide as the printed one is dated and difficult to understand. Using Blender 2.78 in cycles, ...
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7 votes
2 answers
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A project without lighting?

How can I render a scene in blender without any lighting? by that I mean I want to have textures, and if the texture is say #00FF00 green, then I want that to render exactly as #00FF00. No light or ...
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Strange black shading. Cannot fully light mesh. (Cycles)

Here is the viewport in material view. The node setup is just a PNG texture into a diffuse shader. And this is in rendered view. I've tried using environmental lighting as well as a directional ...
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Steel material looks fake

I created a model and applied a steel material. I have a background HDRI images, but, I don't think it's reflecting the same way that real steel does. What should I change? The ground material ...
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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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Both a mirror and a 90 degree prism are not reflecting light on to a screen (cycles)

I made a 90-degree prism out of glass with index of refraction of 1.5, which is high enough to produce total internal reflection at 45 degrees. I've done this before with no problem, but suddenly the ...
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Yafaray: Shadow-catcher

I have tracked footage in blender and placed a tank in the scene. To get more realistic results, I switched over to Yafaray v3 render after setting up the tracking scene. It seems that Yafaray can'...
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Why is this mirror object not reflecting light onto another surface properly?

I have a scene where the sun rays should be reflected from a mirror to create this sort of effect: The problem below was resolved, scroll down to EDIT. However, I can't get any light reflected from ...
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Why does this mirror, made using a glossy material, not fully reflect all the incomming light?

As shown in the picture, I have this scene where I want to film this girl from her reflection in the mirror, and from the front I have lighted her face up for the shot, but when I render it with ...
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