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How to make a material not reflect light?
I have 2 Finishes in cycles,
1) with a glossy >> roughness is 0.5 (Lets call this as
Roughness0.5)
2) with a glossy >> roughness is 0.05 (Roughness0.05)
I want roughness0.5 to reflect light.,
but
I ...
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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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Creating a light beam
I need a light beam, something like this:
https://cloud.blender.org/p/caminandes-3/56c6da5cc379cf0079716873
I tried it, but the emmision shader dosen't work that way now - when I make make a simple ...
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Creating a glowing effect with nodes
I want to achieve that light glowing effect. What material and what nodes do I have to use?
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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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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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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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Is there an Emit option for a texture? [duplicate]
I've tried checking indirect lighting and selecting approximate in the world settings, then put emit on high in the materials tab, but the glow itself is very very weak. Is there a way to adjust 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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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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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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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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Make strength of emmision independent from the surface brightness
How can I make that sphere glow less but still keep the luminance. I've tried to mess around with the options but without results.
