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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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How can I avoid colored light reflections?
so I'm sorta new to Blender and stumbled upon a problem which is probably easy to fix. So I realized that the color of the ground gets reflected onto other surfaces during the render, as seen on this ...
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Why is there no light passing through the window? [duplicate]
I have attached a screen shot of no light passing through the window. The light strength is high, and the glass material I think is good. Why is there not a pinch of light passing or traveling inside ...
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How can I animate multiple objects to be highlighted in a scene?
For an explanation video about my company's products, I have an animated scene in Blender 2.8 with a large number of mechanical parts of which I'd like to highlight a specific collection of parts, for ...
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Make light visible once it passed through a transparent object
I am looking for a better solution to make light in Cycles only visible, once it passed through a transparent object.
Example which is actually pretty close but has a few flaws, see below
A doorframe ...
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Soft lighting through translucent material in cycles
I'm making an interior scene in which all light comes from a window with a curtain. This is an image that shows the effect I'm trying to achieve:
The light source is a plane with an emissive material ...
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Emission material won't work while another emission in my scene is on
I'm having trouble with an emission material that refuses to emit while another material in seperate object is emitting. In the attached screenshots you will see that the emission from the lamp wont ...
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EEVEE ignores light-emission outside of the camera frame
Screen Space Refraction = on
Motion Blur = on
Refraction = off (when I turned it on, the raytraced light dissapeared completely)
All Materials are based on Principled BDSF
All Materials are set to ...
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How to delete or hide reflections, bounces and refractions from a geometry on render?
I'm making a Prism. It's not based totally on reality, so it can count as a basic representation of it.
As you can see on the image, there are reflections made by the objects, but how can I erase ...
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Prevent point lamp from shining through mesh lamp in reflection
I have a scene which must appear as if it's lit by a very small mesh lamp. To optimize performance, what I'm trying to do is place a point lamp inside of the mesh lamp, and have the point lamp shine ...
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How to make Shadows-Only Render
How can I achieve the following effect? Here, we see all shadows, and nothing else.
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Transparent blue plastic material which emits light
Hi I am creating a Doctor who Sonic screwdriver model in Blender and am having difficulties creating the material for the blue light on the end. Preferably I'd like one material which emits light and ...
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Material that emits light, but appears diffuse?
How can I have an object that emits light (using an emission shader) onto other objects, but when rendered appears to be diffuse (or any other shader for that matter)?
In essence, I want one 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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