Unanswered Questions
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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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Separate alpha from color in Shader Editor
In the Shader Editor, I can create an RGB node and in there, I can set an alpha value as displayed in this screenshot:
However, no color separation node in blender supports extracting that value and ...
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Flat shading when using displacement or bump
When using a bump or displacement node and bump only or displacement and bump in the material settings, the shade smooth option seems to not be working. Instead the geometry starts to show, auto ...
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Custom shader script in compositor (de-linearize depth buffer)
Some months ago I wrote a minimal opengl 2.5d game engine with pre-rendered backgrounds (such old Resident evil, Alone in the dark and Final fantasy games). Depth is managed through a grayscale image ...
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get this gradient style in blender
I'm trying to get this gradient style:
My best result are with eevee with volumetric and gradient on a metaball, but i cannot figure out how to get the gradient fill the totally of the metaballs like ...
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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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Control image texture source from outside node group
I'm working on turning a cavity node setup I found online into a node group I can append to my blender files.
The setup uses several mapping nodes (that I already converted to math nodes so the ...
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is there any way to get to velocity of a fluid and use it in the cycle material editor
I'm trying to use flip fluids to make lava is there any way to use the motion blur vectors, or get the velocity to mix a material. or in the script editor is there anyway to drive that.
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Particle Instance Modifier : colour each instance based on the emitter texture (like Hair strands materials do)
In cycles, with particle hair strands, I can get the colour from the texture of the emitter object for colouring the entire strand.
When I use the "Particle Instance" modifier on a mesh (a simple ...
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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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Mesh emission strength to Area lamp strength
I've three emissive mesh planes in my scene which I'd like to convert to Area lamps.
I've set my new Area lamps to use precisely the same size, location and strength as the planes were. But when I ...
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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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