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thunderstorm seen from ISS shader for surfaces
The solution I have is far from perfect, but maybe that's something you can work with. It basically comes down to this: I have an animated Noise Texture for the lightning multiplied by an animated ...
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Realize Instances node does not work on Light objects
Sure. Realize instances converts geometry to mesh. But you can't convert lights into mesh.
Use Ctrl+A ⇾ Make Instances Real, It will convert lights to real objects, that's can be exported
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Making certain lights in scene not react to volumetrics (eevee)?
In the settings of the light, set the value for Volume to 0. Here the white light is visible in the volumetrics, the blue light is not but still shining on the objects:
In Cycles you can disable ...
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Is there a way to hide in-scene lights in reflections?
If on Cycles, you could go in the object properties > Visibility panel > Ray Visibility panel, and disable Glossy:
If on Eevee, you can set the light's specular property to zero:
In both cases,...
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Blender 4.0 - Point lighting is dimmer than expected
This is a normal phenomenon, considering you have a 10m radius lamp emitting only 10 Watts of energy.
To give you an idea, a common incandescent lightbulb for a small room is 40W. But that lightbulb ...
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Disabling HDRI only for a specific render layer
There actually is a single button solution for this. With the background layer selected, go into view layer properties, scroll down to filter, and uncheck Environment.
And here is a simple render I ...
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