Questions tagged [reflection]
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remove reflection of some selected objects
I have a ground/floor object with reflective material. We can see all the reflection including the reflection of the environment map.
I want to mask out or exclude the env map dan the green donut ...
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How to get rid of black reflections on the underside of an ocean modifier
I created an ocean modifier from a plane then applied a refraction node to the ocean with the intent to make an underwater scene but it creates some black reflections depending on the angle of the ...
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Same material on different objects, different reflection
I have different objects with the same material applied. The direction of the light reflecting from the surface, seems to differ. I tried applying rotation and scale but it didn't change anything, ...
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Text in reflection
I'm new here in this blender world and I really need your help with a college project. I'm sorry if anything is written wrong as I'm using Google Translate. I am from Brazil
How to create a script in ...
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Weird squared reflection on metal material
I want to make a good render of this tube and i use an STL file for the model. As you can see the reflections on the metal material look weird and very squared. Currently i use the EdgeSplit and ...
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Multiple Light Probe Planes in EEVEE
I'm working on an dance studio scene in EEVEE. There are mirrored walls on both sides of the room, so I attempted to place two light probe plane objects. However, as shown in the attached image, only ...
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Shadow catcher layer looking weird
Trying to build up a decent reflection catcher to mix it with shadow catcher.
Using a plane with shadow catcher on first render layer and reflective plane for the second layer.
Why does the shadow ...
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Problems with rendering reflections
I'm very new to blender and am currently struggling to get the reflections I want rendered.
So I have several objects and as a light source and surroundings I imported the city.exr using this tutorial ...
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Reflection Catcher showing in render but not appearing in saved PNG image
I have a simple scene with a cube and a plane.
I followed some tutorials that allowed me to create a basic Reflection Catcher, so that I can add my rendered footage to a video.
Everything seems to ...
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Tiny Eyes Addon problem
I faced a problem that for some reason when I use Tiny Eyes addon pupils always reflect the light in a strange way - they are just yellow. I tried different things but couldn'find anything on youtube ...
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Screen space reflection makes my object darker
I'm applying a texture which was set up by @ChristopherBennett. The texture works well (Using EEVEE Render) until I turn on space screen reflections, which makes it darker, and the objects loses it's ...
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Is there a way to rotate reflections of the mirrors in clockwise or anti clockwise by manipulating how the mirror reflect?
Right now, I have made two mirrors facing each others and a tunnel in the middle (like in viewport at the bottom-left corner of the pic). So the reflections will bounce back and forth as many times as ...
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Refraction BSDF shader showing as opaque for certain meshes and angles
This is a follow-up to the question I asked at Muddled results from many-reflected mirror which Mr. A gave a great answer to.
I've extended the set of polyhedra that I'm rendering, and there are ...
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Procedural Space Texture has Unwanted Red Streak when Viewing from Head-On Angles
So I built this material all-by-myself with information learned in a few other procedural texture material tutorials. It's meant to be a stylized space texture, with moving purple and red space clouds....
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how to make reflection doesn't affect the environment? (cycles)
The environment light is white, however, the reflection on the glass is translucent blue.
and the glass it self is transparent.
I tried to change the environment into other colors, or change the glass ...
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What is causing this stretched shading on the mesh and how can I fix it?
I am modeling a Z GT500 and I have this weird stretched shading/reflection on the rear panel:
Despite the topology is somewhat fine. Can looptools fix this or is there any other way?
I include a ....
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Muddled results from many-reflected mirror
I'm building a geometric shape with meshes that have emissive shaders along the interior edges, and the faces of the shape are "two way mirrors". The idea is that these emissive shaders act ...
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having a solid color in the reflection with eevee
is there a way in eevee to have reflection being only one color?
or having a mask for the reflection only ?
a bit like that exemple
thanks!!!
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Floor material reflections. How i may reduce them?
How to reduce floor material regflection? Here is my nodes of floor texture
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How to turn reflection light into limited color? (cycles)
heyya, I'm having trouble in making this camera lens:
These glasses are under two same lamps, but turns out different colors
I tried a lot to control the color but it always look like a green lens:
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Any way to reflect grease pencil objects in mirrors (reflection plane) in Eevee?
I'm a storyboard artist and recently I've been using Blender for my animatics. A game dev friend recommanded that I use Eevee for my renders as its way less ressource hungry than Cycles.
Using a ...
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How to make glass dispersion behind a no dispersion glass? (cycles) and why light reflections is triangle in a round surface?
I created a camera lens in cycles, and I want it's core lens to display color dispersions:
However, there are a glass panel that covering the core lens which prevent color dispersions to show up.
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How can I hide a part of an reflection in Cycles
I want to hide the red reflection as shown in the image below. I achieved this in Eevee, and I want to do it in Cycles because it looks more realistic in Cycles. I've tried adjusting light path ...
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Stained glass window reflection not working
I'm trying to have my stained glass window cast a colorful reflection onto the ground of my scene. I want a distinct reflection, and the only lights in my scenes are an HDRI image for the World, and a ...
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Retopology and reflections issues (wrong normals)
Retopology and reflections issues (wrong vertex normals)
I've started retopology. But I've noticed a problem. Although the topology seems to be clean, the reflection is completely broken compared to ...
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Stylzed glass material WITH transmission using isometric camera and stacked panes (Cycles)
I got a client who wants stacked glass panes with a transmissive material looking like this:
And I'm really struggling with getting the material right.
The closest I got was using two materials, one ...
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How to make one side of the plane transparent and other side of the plane reflective in Bledner
I am trying to create a plane, whose properties are one side of the plane is transparent and the other side of the plane is reflective.
in the attached image the plane is transparent but not ...
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When I activate the shadow catcher in the plane it shows the hdri instead of showing just the shadow
When the shadow catcher is activated on the plane, it shows the envarioment instead of the other ground plane
follow new images to check it out
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How do I make an object reflect light through a volume at a specific angle?
I have a light going through a volume cube so that I can see the beam of light. I want to make a material that will reflect the light at the correct angle so that I can see the beam in the volume. I ...
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Turn off reflection
How can I turn off the reflection to make some corrections to the house
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transparent renders having very dark undertones
I don't know how to describe it but my transparent renders always come out having dark edges despite bumping the lights to the maximum I can without loosing details in my object.no matter what I do it ...
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Surface > Background > As Color using environment texture doesn't display when rendering on EEVEE
Surface > Background > As Color using environment texture doesn't display when rendering on EEVEE.
The transparency is there, the screens pace reflections activated, alpha blend mode and so on, ...
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How can I get my renders to look more like what I see in my viewing window?
I have a character animation I'm trying to render. When I'm working on it in the main viewing window, it looks like this:
To me, this looks great. The water looks just like I want it to. When I ...
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Flickering light reflection issue
As you can see here, I've had an issue with my render. The mountains in the background seem to reflect the light sources in my scene strangely, which leads to this weird flickering.
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Blender Eevee, How do I update indirect lighting before every frame during rendering?
I've been making a scene in Eevee where an astronaut is moving down a hallway and he has a reflective visor, however he moves quite far. Probably 10m worth of distance. I made a glossy material and ...
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How to get streched water reflections without changing rougness
I have this render and I'm just trying to get the water reflections right. Basically what I want to achieve is to get the moon reflection to stretch across a bigger part of the lake like on this image ...
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Why are my fluid simulation reflections so low res?
I have been getting my feet wet on fluid sims this week, even bought the Flip Fluids addon, but no matter what I do, how much resolution I give the fluid, how many subdivisions I give the obstacle, my ...
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How can I render in Blender while preserving the metallic shine, background appearance, and reflections? [duplicate]
I have a project in Blender. The appearance of my project during rendering is shown in the first image, but I want the metallic reflections and the "reflection of the Earth" on the ...
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Glass and Transparency - Wine Bottle
I have been following a wine bottle tutorial on skillshare.
My problem is that a mesh liquid inside and bottle have this weird reflection using Cycles.
I already flipped normals, merged by distance, ...
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Weird reflections, as if stretched models
I'm trying to make a chess board, and with the pawns I've added, the black marble squares seem to reflect the white pawns as if they're taller - i.e. they seem to be reflecting "ghost" ...
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Why is my dark field photography setup for glass looking different from what a real studio setup would?
I am trying to replicate a dark field photography setup for glass. Similar to this:
The final goal is to get a set of clean reflections on a transparent background that I can composite with the ...
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White light reflections show up as ugly white patches
I have a nicely done texture of a costume. Notice the texture already has 3D effect and nice light reflections. But when I UV mapped it onto the model, they simply render as ugly white patches. I ...
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Turn off HDRI reflection
I try to turn off the reflections of the HDRI from the glass material.
With reflections the glass looks realistic, but when I add a node set-up to remove reflections that I found online, the glass ...
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Properly animating a plane reflection
Apologies if this question has been asked before, but even after several rephrasings I still don't see what I am looking for. I'm also a n00b when it comes to solid modelling, although I have a ...
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Remove reflection from materials without roughness. Leave reflections on materials with roughness
I will give a simple example. There is a glass bottle, a ceramic cup, and a mirror on the table. The bottle and the cup have a low roughness of .07. The mirror has zero roughness.I want to leave all ...
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Incorrect reflections when enabling Screen Space Reflection
When I turn on Screen Space Reflection to create glass, the bull and chair start to look very unnatural. How to fix it?
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Is there a way to achieve/improve an effect of hot air distortion in EEVEE Blender without reflections?
I've seen this post:
How to create an air distortion/blur effect in eevee?
I've created just a plane object and assigned the following material to it. My settings and Node Setup are in some sense ...
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Less metallic from a distance
I have a large plane with spots that are metallic. It's made with a simple noise textures and colorramp.
But far in the distance, when the sun is low, it's making some weird flickering reflections ...
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Colored Reflections with no Overall Color Change
I am trying to make my own version of the Universal Intro; however, the color of the sun's reflections are white while I would like them to be more orange like the pic below.
I am attempting to make ...
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Materials Issue: Weird Geometric Normals
Whenever I apply normals to an object, it gives me this bizarre mapping and reflection that follows the object's geometry. I don't know what's causing it. Hoping to get it fixed.
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