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Strange black shading. Cannot fully light mesh. (Cycles)
Here is the viewport in material view. The node setup is just a PNG texture into a diffuse shader.
And this is in rendered view. I've tried using environmental lighting as well as a directional ...
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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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How do you make an image emission without washing out the image?
I am trying to make a computer monitor. This means I have to have an image texture for the screen. My image texture is currently connected to an Emission BSDF shader. Unfortunately, when the emission ...
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Make light paths only pass through non-emitted areas?
I'm trying to make it so that the plane is transparent except for the light from the aqua emission. Or in other words, how can I make it so that the plane's white areas are transparent and the plane's ...
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How do I emit light from inside a object?
I need to know how to make the buttons in my blender project look the same as in this photo. Mine all look pale, even with the emission material. Is there anyway I can get my buttons like this?
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How to make small objects emit a ton of light?
So, I'm trying to create a chemical plant model, and you know how when you drive past an oil refinery at night it's all lit up with dozens of lights and it looks really cool?
That's what I'm going ...
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How to control many tiny lights
I've been modeling in blender for several years now, but only recently started doing some animation.
This thing I'm currently working on requires controlling hundreds of little lights turning off and ...
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Creating a Black Hole in Blender
I recently saw the film Interstellar and it was fantastic! The effects blew me away and it got me in the mood to try and re create the black hole, however I haven't been able to find any information ...
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How to make colored backgrounds not influence the color of an object
I am making an animation with a green background. When a lamp shines on my mesh, the background somehow makes the lamp shine on my mesh green as if the lamp was shining on it through green glass. How ...
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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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Make texture visible in sunlight
I would like to make my textures visible in sunlight. I adjusted the exposure but that didn't help:
Right now when sunlight hits my textures they turn white. I want to be able to see the texture even ...
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How to imitate early CGI style animation?
I just finished the doughnut tutorial series and wanted to know what I need to learn next. I was wondering whether anyone has any advice about how to make the shading and water/fire simulations/...
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How do I fix weird clipping glitch on my Object with Image Texture? [duplicate]
I am currently working in Blender in Eevee and getting a really weird glitch where I can see random faces of my object in front of the faces I should be seeing. For example, in the image below, I can ...
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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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How do I make objects ignore certain Light sources? [duplicate]
I have a scene which has a spot light as the main light source. To get the scene as bright as I want, I have to set the value for the strength to be quite high, something like 5000. The problem is, ...
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