Questions tagged [render-layers]
Render layers are used to separate pieces of a scene for rendering. Those layers can then be treated differently in the compositor.
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Why does my object not show up?
This is meant to solve this problem once and for all. What is every reason an object isn't showing up in a render or viewport in when using the cycles render engine?
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How can I render all render passes to files in Cycles?
How can I render all render passes for all of the frames of an animation in Cycles to different files or a file with multiple layers? I'm going to do the final compositing in another compositing ...
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Is there a way to have Cycles skip rendering alpha?
If I wanted to create an animation, each frame would have several seconds of rendering a completely transparent part, which adds up obviously. Is there a way to eliminate this waste of time?
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Can someone explain the layer system?
I am really confused with the different uses of the terms "Layers" and "Passes" in Blender.
Can someone please explain how they work in Blender. I know about Render Passes like AO, Diffuse and so on, ...
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How to get reflections from 3D to show up on real images
Andrew Price released a nice tutorial on how to nicely put 3D objects on top of a real image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjWoglMYXBE
I have seen images, such as this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/...
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Where do the white lines come from in my composite?
I'm having this issue for years now, and I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong on my end, or if what I would like to achieve - or expect to see - is even possible. My question is about ...
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How can I move an object on a separate layer behind another in the compositor?
How can I make the light bar, after compositing (applying the blur effect on it), be displayed behind the ball, not in front of it?
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Create invisibility cloak (alpha mask material)
How can I create an invisibility cloak? It should be an invisible object which causes other specified objects to become invisible when it covers those objects.
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How to render world position pass
A world position pass is a pass used for composting other elements into the scene after the initial render. In a world position pass the R, G, B values correspond to the X, Y, Z axis (or X, Z, Y). A ...
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How to denoise animations using Blender's Temporal Denoiser?
I've been diving into the secret Blender Animation Denoiser function mentioned in February of 2019 by Pablo and documented on the Developer Site.
Here are some things I figured out after digging ...
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Is it possible to use more than 20 layers?
Is it possible to use more than 20 Scene layers or Render layers in Blender?
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How can I blend a moon/planet (textured sphere) into the background (procedural sky texture)?
I've been trying to tackle this challenge for a week or two now and I'm still somewhat stumped. I am trying to create the effect of a moon or large planet seen in orbit from the surface during ...
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How to create a shadows pass in cycles?
Everytime I am doing one thing another problem comes up, and I have a deadline to follow unless there is a way to create shadows using another software (after effects)? I want to composite this thing ...
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Object turns white when rendering/render Layer Colors disappear
Help, where is the color?! I tried everything going through material etc. Im barely learning on youtube with blenderguru but I don't know why my objects colors disappeared when rendering.
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How can I combine two render layers?
I would like to know which nodes can I combine this two render layers width?
I've made this with alpha over node and transparent rendering. I want such an image but I don't want to lose the ...
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