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why do I get these weird stripes or waves in the background?
I get these stripes or waves in the background, is it the sample size, I am using 300.
blender 2.93, cycles, point light. sorry, I don't know if there is a term for this. and I rendered this in ...
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How do You Prevent Texture Light Washout When Using Bright HDRs?
I have been having a lot of trouble preventing textures from getting washed out when getting hit with even a moderate amount of light. It keeps making my scenes look fake and poorly rendered and I ...
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"Materialize" light sources and material from MatCap or Studio viewport shading
I know MapCap and Studio viewport shading is only for previewing the model, not for the final rendering. But let's say I accidentally run into a lighting condition I like in MapCap:
Is it possible to ...
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Need help trying to make a lighthouse lamp
I was trying to make a lighthouse asset for a scene I was making and ran into a little roadblock.
I need some help trying to make the lamp which goes on the top. I was imagining a beam of light which ...
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How can I recreate the lighting and the glass in this?
I am new to blender so please bear with me if this is a silly question. I have been trying to recreate this cool image and got stuck at the lighting in those glass boxes and the glass shader.
Can ...
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Blender point lights: random colour by Object ID
For my exterior visualisations I'm trying to develop a lighting system which allows me to randomize the colors of groups of lamps, instead of all lamps individually.
The practical application of this ...
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Square artifacts when shining light through material
I am shining a light through a principled bsdf with transmission and getting weird square artifacts. Any ideas as to the cause?
blend file: https://filebin.net/yhpnzpuic4lvree1/
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Make glass lightbulb material work?
I am making an old fashioned incandescent light bulb in cycles, with the coil inside having an emissive material. However, I am trying to find a good way to make the glass material. If I use an actual ...
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Beginner help with Old-Style Vehicle Lights
I've been using blender seriously for all of a week now, but I have experience with modeling, texturing, and the generalities of 3D modeling from other programs.
My current project involves texturing ...
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Disable ambient occlusion for a specific material (eevee)
How can I disable ambient occlusion for just a single shader? I’m rendering with Eevee.
For example, I’d like everything but the grass to have ambient occlusion enabled.
I’ve enabled ambient occlusion ...
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Why are bright textures showing up in shadows on EEVEE?
I made a procedural material for a moon and in the shadows you can see bright parts of the moon, it should be all shadow. I'm only using 1 directional light but I think the problem lies with my ...
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After find missing files, my floor wont cast any shadow
i'm working on this project of mine and i've moved the floor's texture files to another folder in order to organise my textures, but i forgot to pack the files into blender. i opened the file and and ...
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why is my mesh fully lit from all angles with no lights in the scene?
I am playing around with materials in blender cycles, and for some reason my mesh is brightly lit with no lamps in the scene. ambient occlusion is off and I tried restarting blender. what is going on ...
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How do I create material like this?
This is the cover of the mixtape "&&&&&" by musician Arca.
I've been fascinated by the aesthetic of it and want to try similar stuff, but i am quite the beginner when it ...
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soft light reflections
I'm trying to get this soft light reflections like in this reference photo on my 3D model, and I don't know how. How can I achieve this. By this I mean, for example look at bowling ball it's has this ...
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