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Matcaps not showing up
I was working on sculpting and wanted to apply a matcap, however when I go and turn on matcaps nothing shows up.
I am in blender render and just updated, is there any setting that could be causing ...
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Is possible to generate a preview material from python?
I would like to generate the preview of a list of materials. I could create a sphere and apply the material, render and save it in a loop, but what I would like is to use the internal functionality of ...
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Force Cycles GPU rendering for a Render Farm
So basically I'm on vacation for 2 weeks with a laptop without a CUDA device. I do have access to a render farm with GPU rendering support.
Now the problem is that I can't setup blender to render in ...
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Custom Renderer as an Add-on
I have been writing a custom raytracing renderer in C++ and I would like to natively integrate it with Blender 2.8 as a custom renderer. I know that this is possible, as I have seen many projects (for ...
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How do I render Big Buck Bunny in the year 2020?
I downloaded the .zip of project files for Big Buck Bunny (from http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/blender/ ). There are 3 directories: 2d, 3d, post. I loaded up 2d/00_00.blend into blender ...
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'image as plane' is always low quality than the original image
How can I render 'image as plane' with the same quality as original image?
The quality of image is always blurred and has a faint color.
This is how I did it.
(*Increased the resolution of the ...
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Cloth simulation drive rig rendering issues
Goal: Create rig with springy bones for i.e. auto belly fat simulation.
Issue: When rendering I'm unable to see spring effect on bones that are driven by objects with is driven by cloth simulation. ...
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Point cloud animation
I have around 5500 .ply files, which amount to about 7 GB of point cloud data; each file is one frame of animation.
Is there any feasible way of importing this into blender for processing? I am ...
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Fluid simulation only shows the domain
I was making a fluid simulation, but when I try to bake it, it only bakes the domain. The fluid doesn't appear from the inflow. Do you know why? Thanks.
This is what appears when i render
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What exactly happens when Blender 'Synchronizes objects' at render time?
In effort to reduce render times between each frame (Eevee renderer), I've retopo-ed and made sure there are least amount of polygons possible, but I've reached the point where I can't sacrifice any ...
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Hide an object in a linked group
I have a character made of several objects that I am linking into a scene. The character's objects are part of a group, and I'm linking in the group. However, for certain scenes I want to hide some of ...
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Strange light from glass
I'm doing a scene with a room with a table. On the table I have some wine glasses, but I get this strange light from some of them. The glass to the left looks OK, but the other are not OK. It seems ...
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Can you link render settings across all scenes so they can all be changed at once?
I have multiple scenes to render and in my "master" scene I have set up the render nodes to output the render of all scenes. This way I only have to hit the Render Animation button once and all of the ...
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How can I render a proper normal pass for smoke in cycles
I would like to render a normal pass for smoke in Cycles like this one:
I'm aware of this method mentioned in Blenderartists but the result is far from the result needed to relight in post (via ...
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Stop animation render after current frame
For long running animation renders, is there a way to stop the render once the current frame is finished? I leave my machine rendering over night, and when I return the next day, I want to stop the ...
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