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Synchronizing object in Cycles

I have a model of a butterfly that uses a displacement map for most of the detail on the mesh at render time. To get an accurate render, I have it subdividing 4 times for the render before applying ...
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Is netrender still only useful for multiple frames?

I saw this post from 2013 and this post stating that the NetRender plugin does not yet have the ability to render single frames properly. Is this still true, or is the functionality just hidden away ...
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Setup network render for cycles render on LAN

I am trying to setup network render with cycles as the rendering engine. My use involves rendering hundreds of images and I have already written logic for it in python which is working fine on single ...
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Why is my smoke bright on the edges?

I was doing some motion tracking and I implemented some smoke. Once I rendered the scene, there is this bright perimeter framing my smoke. I'm not sure if this is a bug or not but i would like to know ...
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3D Gaussian Splatting looks strange after import

I am trying to import a 3D Gaussian Splatting scan into Blender using the plugin from this tutorial. But for some reason, the scan looks terrible in Blender (although in Unreal it looks like it should)...
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Complementary Colors using the Color wheel

In Photoshop, I can find the complementary color easily by adding 180 to the Hue (or subtracting 180, if the Hue is already over 180). Since Blender maps the color Wheel from 0 to 1, shouldn't I ...
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Why does bloom not work over a transparent background?

I'm using the Eevee engine and the fireworks are emissive particles, bloom is turned on. I tried both eevee and cycles, I want to use eevee though. I tried PNG with RGBA color, 8bit and 16bit color, ...
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Render objects always in front of others (priority in front?)

In some video games there is a feature where nametags of friends are shown through walls. I want to emulate that kind of style in the render, without using holdout and doing a composite on that ...
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How to recreate PS1-style vertex lighting?

How would I recreate per-vertex lighting for a PS1-looking model? Vertex colours almost work, but they do not account for lighting. Is there a solution? Example render:
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How to quickly render a custom asset browser prop preview

I currently have a few dozen models that I'm organizing into an asset browser catalogues. The default preview icon for each asset is rendered from a fixed angle in a workbench renderer, but I would ...
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Why is Blender rendering QT animation weirdly?

Recently blender has started to render my animations incorrectly (see image below) Im using transparent background, using RGBA quicktime Mpge4. Blender never did this before. Has Anyone go any idea ...
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Difference in color between image render and video render

Can anyone tell me why there is a subtle colour difference between my image render and video render? This is an EXR image sequence that I have pre-rendered and am importing into the sequencer in a ...
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Blender Hair System uses different seed on different computers

I am trying to render a pretty complex hair setup on our local network of workstations with cycles X. I use 3.0.0. The machines all render to our production server with placeholders. Works fine ...
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How can I render on SSH Linux machine?

I downloaded linux version from this official page and extracted files onto as folder. Created a very basic default cube file and uploaded it to via WinSCP as well. When I try to execute this line. <...
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Compositing transparency challenge. Particle not part of alpha?

Hey Wicked Smaht people! I have been working on a project that will be super imposed, in photoshop, over another image. So, I have been trying to composite it so that the background is transparent. ...

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