Unanswered Questions
4,486 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Per-Vertex lighting in GLSL?
How can I achieve per-vertex lighting (like in single/multi-texture shading) in GLSL with all of the other GLSL features (like buffer shadows, texture layers, etc.)? Bonus points if it can be done in ...
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how to write a custom projection type?
Is it possible to create a lens shader with EEVEE/Cycles ?
I'd like to have the control over the camera position and the ray direction per sample. This allows to simulate various conventional lens ...
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Blender on Windows is skipping python script. (brenda on windows)
We've been using Brenda for quite some time now for rendering architectural stills. Since our editing stations are doing nothing at night, I started making a desktop app that allows you to pick jobs ...
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Antialiasing textures in cycles (Blender 2.77 and higher)
I would like to get an answer to a frustrating question.
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.77/Cycles
In this link is "Anti-Aliasing is now enabled for baking. (c359343)"
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cycles stuck at loading render kernels
ever sense I have been using the new LTS version or a newer version of blender its not loading the render kernels or sometimes it will but its just painfully slow even with the default cube scene has ...
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Is it possible to render Annotations made in View Space?
I have some animated annotations made in the 3D Viewport and I cannot render them with viewport render. It looks like the problem is that they were made in View Space.
Is there any way to have them ...
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How to disable env HDR reflection only for one object?
I have scene with 2 objects, 1 light and background HDR.
For object 1 i need light reflection and background reflection.
For object 2 i need only light reflection without background.
Is any simple ...
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Convert Animation Nodes to Object and Keyframes
I have This Node Tree in Animation Nodes:
As you can see it creates objects and edit their location.
but When I render, even If I normally bake all the Dynamics, the cache disappears and then it ...
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File output node and output panel both exporting during animation
I have an animation ready to render but there is a small annoying issue. I currently have a basic file output node to export the raw render and a mist pass and they are both set to export to the ...
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2.80 - use Eevee and Cycles together for motion blur issue
I have one question about one problem in my experiment with motion blur in Eevee. I know that in this time is not supported and maybe will be supported in future official release as another primary ...
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Optical flow generated from cycles render is not proper
Scene generated from Blender, and flow is given. As it can be seen the flow generated is not proper, it is in a zig-zag format.
I see the scene at and above horizon have more zig-zag. Can someone ...
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Smoke Simulation Vibrating
Last week I started making a volcano that was starting to erupt. I've got some sparks and I made a nice smoke simulation. I clicked Bake All Dynamics and then rendered. The result was a nice volcano ...
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nVidia skin shader with the Principled BSDF
I've been using a skin shader primarily based on the Brecht skin shader, which is itself based on the Sum-of-Gaussians approach as seen in 14.4.7 from GPU Gems by nVidia. Its Cycles adaptation, which ...
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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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translucent white resin with embeddings - material
I need to make a volumetric translucent material, possibly working in EEVEE.
It is a white semi-translucent resin with objects embedded.
The embedded objects are more visible near to the surface of ...
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Jagged shadow with custom toon shader
I'm trying to render (using EEVEE) a couple of objects with very simple toon shaders but I can't get the shadows right. I want hard shadows but right now they are all weird-shaped.
Here is what I ...
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Custom nodes, node limits, and compile times
I am working with some very complex custom toon shaders in Eevee. This causes several problems. First, the compile times are atrocious. Second, I am in danger of hitting the node limit if I also use ...
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Is it possible to apply ocean modifier for only one face of geometry?
I was trying to recreate this illustration with my limited knowledge.
And while doing that I tried to follow some tutorials. In one of the tutorials, the animation done with ocean modifier and ...
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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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Lighting/glare issues with Eevee
I have a lighting problem with Eevee, this is the rendering without baking indirect lights and reflections:
nothing strange here. But if I bake lights it render like this:
as you can see there is ...
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Plane-object displayed in background while beeing in front (Eevee Viewport)
Some plane-objects are being displayed in the background while being in front. Is this a bug or am i missing something Eevee-specific?
All the plane objects were joined while uv-projecting from top-...
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Eevee Linear / Cubic Texture Interpolation Complex Node Issue / Bug
A friend has been working on a project, and they have run into issues with using Linear Interpolation & Cubic Interpolation with their complex node tree.
This node tree will be working with low ...
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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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How to turn on Anti-Aliasing in EEVEE?
It doesn't seem to be working when I click render viewport with EEVEE.
It's okay in the viewport but after render it's bad.
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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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How do you render lines in EEVEE/Cycles
I am trying to convert my workflow over to Cycles/EEVEE since the Blender Renderer will no longer be available. A fair bit of my product is drawing lines or paths in the scene (such as below which ...
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