Unanswered Questions
1,464 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Aperture Science portals using OSL
I am wanting to create Aperture Science style portals, And I’m aware of various compositing techniques to do this, but to make it more flexible I am thinking about using Open Shading Language. I do ...
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Procedural tile texture with different column width and tile lengths
I'm quite new to textures in Blender and still trying to understand how to create procedural textures using nodes. I'd like to create an approximation of these tiles. There are three column widths, a ...
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Can someone explain why my Color Space options are different from any tutorial or documentation I've seen?
I'm wondering if anyone can explain what I'm seeing when I use the "Color Space" drop down on a Image_Texture node? No tutorial or documentation seems to have any info on this. I'm just ...
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How could I make a VDB volume not cast shadows?
I imported a VDB volume from Houdini into Blender 2.92 and it creates some weird shadows. How could I make it not cast any shadows? I went into Visibility > Ray Tracing but there's no Shadow ...
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How can I make grease pencil be effected by shadow?
I'm using grease pencil in surface draw mode to make my scene look painted, but I'm not sure how to make grease pencil respond to shadowing. I know grease pencil can't cast shadows, so I set my ...
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Recreating colored glass shader from VRay/Max to Blender/Cycles
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I am converting a somewhat simple scene from 3DSMax/VRay to Blender/Cycles. I'm almost done with the conversion, but I am having trouble with matching the glass shader used in the ...
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Using CFD temperature data to generate lighting
I have a VTK file that contains volumetric data on the temperature at different points on a flame. It has been obtained using a CFD simulation, with the file containing different values of temperature ...
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Odd shadow cutout
I'm very new to Blender (10 hours in!), and I'm coming across a problem I haven't been able to successfully google.
I have an object casting a shadow on a plane. I'm using an Area light pointing ...
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Is it possible to shade objects in Cycles based on Z gradient, to highlight/darken edges?
I'd like to shade the edges of my objects darker, like a toon shader, based on abrupt Z depth transitions to neighboring pixels -- in other words wherever the Z gradient is high, darken the image. I ...
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Accessing the Render Engine Type as a String from a Driver Expression
I am trying to make a Render Engine switch for node-trees, that will give control over ignoring or using certain node-chains depending on what render engine is used.
This is basically an improvement ...
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What happened to the color pallete?
Why don't I get the normal color pallette in my material? what happened? I've never seen this before.
My color palette is seemingly faulty. I am sure it is not, rather I am surely at fault, but I ...
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Displacement on Particle Location
I am trying to create a shader which uses displacement to create a dent in an object with a hair particle system, based on the locations of the hair particles.
The strawberry I have created is setup ...
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How to create a SOBEL shader?
I've been curious as to how recreate the sobel (edge detection) node from the compositor into the shader editor.
It seems the general method consists to create an highpass image and then use a mixmode ...
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How do I stop eevee shadows changing shape each frame?
I am doing an animation in eevee with one spot light, volumetric fog, the camera and light moving together over different models/objects..
My problem is each time it changes frame all the objects ...
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How to stack displacement nodes?
When using displacement modifiers, you can use the resulting mesh normals of the first displacement as the base for the second, such that the end result is a 3 dimensional displacement.
For example, ...
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