Unanswered Questions
1,184 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How to export smoothing groups made with Auto Smooth?
I know that there is an Edge Split modifier, but it actually splits geometry edges, which causes problems with further modeling. When I use "Shading: Smooth" and then enable Auto Smooth, it works nice,...
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GameEngine: KX_BlenderMaterial vs KX_PolygonMaterial
I have a question about the material types in the game-engine.
e.g.:
2.66 Blender API - KX_PolyProxy(SCA_IObject)
2.66 Blender API - name ~ The material of the polygon.
When is the material a ...
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Cycles and OSL : how to implement a custom closure
I'd like to implement a custom shader in OSL (Open Shading Language) to reproduce the Hapke reflectance model (it allows to visualize the opposition surge effect, visible on the moon for example).
I ...
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How can I optimize this Minecraft-style flood fill voxel lighting system I made in geometry nodes?
I made this flood fill/breadth-first search style voxel lighting system using geometry nodes. However, due to the wonky set-up I have in the repeat zone, it lags quite a lot when the light is moved. I ...
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Experimenting with creating an opal-like material (UPDATE)
I've been wanting to create a material that attempts to mimic the look of a white opal gemstone. The biggest issue I am having is figuring out how to effectively create the streaky rainbow effect on ...
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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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What happens to UV Tangents when using Custom Normals?
Tangent Normal mapping is done with the mesh Normals and UV Tangents. For it to work, these are supposed to be consistent with those used when baking, and orthogonal to each other. When you set Custom ...
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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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Geometry Node Attribute Unusable on Density (Shader Nodes)
I've found something weird. I have an Fac Attribute in my geometry nodes (it's a simple gradient). When I use it in Shader Nodes, it works, but not for the density value on volume absorbtion or volume ...
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Dilate/Erode image in Shader Editor?
In the compositor you can dilate/erode an image based on pixel brightness, like this :
I'm wondering if there is a way to do the same in the Shader Editor (maybe with some clever vector math?).
I'm ...
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How to make an object cast shadows on other things but not itself? (Eevee)
I'm trying to make a low-poly model, and it looks very weird with casting shadows on itself. I'm trying to have it essentially only use vertex shading, not cast shadows, on itself. However, I still ...
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Material Color from Rotation Angle
I basically have a two-part hinged lever. One arm is fixed, and the other arm can rotate in Y 0 to -45 degrees (X and Z are constrained to 0). So it's rigid body active -> hinge -> rigid body ...
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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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