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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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How to display an image in my custom node

I have a custom node and I want it to be able to display an image. I know that the node has a parameter show_preview and if you enable it, no image appears.
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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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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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How to crop image based on Alpha in Compositor?

I wonder if there is any way to crop a image based on alpha data like this: The reason I want to do this is that I want to crop the White area of another image (of the same dimension to the Alpha ...
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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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Which format for saving transparency from bloom and respecting colors (tried PNG/TGA/TIFF/EXR)

TL;DR: How can I properly save a picture with semi-transparent "emit" pixels coming from a bloom? I understand that .PNG can't handle that, but I'd expect TIFF/Targa/.EXR to handle it ...
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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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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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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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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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Migrating geometry shaders to Metal

I'm working on BlenderBIM (architecture addon for Blender) and we have a bunch of shaders to support plan annotations in viewports. Mainly it's simple shapes based of lines - lines, segment based ...
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Drawing non-polyline smoothed lines with `gpu` module

Backstory: Since bgl module will soon to be deprecated and it's doesn't work on Metal already I was trying to move code to gpu ...
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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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