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Lighting with draw mode
How can I brighten my work with Drawing Mode? Except with the Light I show in the 2nd photo.
Do I have a chance to illuminate the drawn with Draw Mode like Bezier?
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Invisible Area Light source is visible when reflected in glass material?
I've come across a Cycles issue where the disks of disk-shaped area lights are invisible in a rendered scene, but they are visible in a window with reflective glass material.
To put it another way, ...
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Creating a procedural material from an image reference
I am new to blender so I don't have that much of an experience working with procedural materials yet.
I need to create a material similar to that covering the walls on the reference images
below:
I ...
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Spotlight appears in the background of rendered image / video - how can I prevent it?
I have a scene with a circular plane and three spotlights that shine down on it intermittently. Below is a screenshot of the scene (one of the lights is currently illuminating the plane):
In the ...
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How to get rid of black shadows in glass ring?
I'm making a glass ring in Blender and am running into a very persistent problem with very dark shadows inside the ring. I am working with the Cycles render engine, as in Eevee the glass just appears ...
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Inconsistent metal texture
Everywhere on the object the texture is nice flat and consistent, but in this part it is quite rough and I don't know what to do with it. I tried almost everything, even modeling it again. The ...
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Can I use a geometry node to select or modify the material of a single object?
I have created stage lighting setup, and a lighting dimmer board with 126 buttons for selecting the channel of specific spotlights (7 buttons each for 18 lights).
I would like each button to glow when ...
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Same material is giving different shades in renderd view
I am having a strange problem and am unable to fix it. I am using the same material on two different parts of the car body but one material is showing up lighter than the other. the material looks ...
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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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Issues With Shadows
I'm making a character, but every time I put it in render mode no shadows pop up. I feel like this has a simple solution but I can't figure it out. Can someone please help?
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i'm having a very complicated(by my standard) issue on baking
i want to bake a whole scene of multiple object, i'm having quite a few issue with this.
first off this is my scene
first issue, it has multiple object on it. do i have to bake every single one of ...
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How would you get this light beam effect?
I need to create this kind of light beam style render and I was wondering if it was possible in Blender or if it should be done in post/AE.
I tried different approaches but I'm not getting a good ...
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Blender 3.1 lights burned-out on Ubuntu
I'm having a nice looking scene in Material preview (Blender v3.1.2).
So far looking good with the default HDRI (I'm not sure exactly how this works).
I then added a simple ...
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How to create a fluorescent fluid material?
Does anyone know how to create a material similar to the fluorescent green fluid found in this image?
Credit: Anton Lavrushkin
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Make A Material Appear Only When Light Strikes It
Is there a way to make a material that only shows one material initially, but when light strikes it (a spotlight, for example) it would change material only where it strikes it?
Something like this (I ...
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