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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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Creating Batman Symbol Spotlight [duplicate]
How can I use the spotlight in blender to cast shadows such and the batman symbol, or other "cool" lighting effects. I went into the compositor and tried assigning it a material, but that didn't work.
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Blender Cycles: Diffuse only lamp
I'm trying to create a cycles lamp shader that only lights up the diffuse component of the materials around it. Kinda like having its Glossy component turned off in the Ray Visibility box under the ...
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How to create a visible material that does not emit or reflect light?
I need to make a plane in the background that is independent of any lighting in the scene. This means that it does not emit light, and it does not reflect light, but it is visible. It is so I can ...
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Is it possible to simulate Fluorescence in cycles?
It it possible to create a fluorescence shader in cycles?
From Wikipedia:
Fluorescence is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.
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Dark surface unchanged by light source changes
I have 3 lamps on the scene (the one on the left has 0 energy):
The rendered surfaces are supposed to look like shiny metal. However, there's always a dark spot at the top of the large light orange ...
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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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Iridescence In Cycles?
Is it possible to create an iridescence shader in Cycles?
Specifically for something like DVDs, soap bubbles, engine oil, etc..
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Shadows distorted and enlarged upon rendering
When I render the scene, the shadows of the fish have become distorted and enlarged. I have played around with the shadow settings on the meshes, materials, textures and environment but cannot fix the ...
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