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How can one randomize both instance topology and instance shading variation across object instances?
I created several parallel instances of a wooden beam object using the following Geometry Node Tree:
And with the following Shader Node Tree:
As expected, each instance of the beam has the same ...
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How can I get the final evaluated material color of each face?
I want to be able to get the final evaluated color for each face regardless of what shader node setup I have. I just want to get the final color result flowing into the Base Color socket of the ...
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How can I get the light direction vector without the roll values?
From watching videos and looking at other posts, it seems like the common way is to just straight up copy the sun's rotation values for the light direction vector. However, this also copies the roll (...
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RG(B) Map to create a toon/cel face shadow mask
First time modelling a proper anime-style character. I've been trying to create some smoother toon/cel shade-style shadows for the face of a character, I saw an idea used for Unreal that used an RGB ...
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Does anyone know how to get the color of the light?
I've been trying to figure out how to create a shader in the shader node editor that will take the color of whatever light is hitting the object and put that color all over the object. My intention is ...
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Normal/Bump maps causing flat shading
Whenever I add a normal/bump map to a smooth object the shading goes flat. Even on a UV sphere the issue remains. The shader is only using procedural textures so I can't change anything to non-color ...
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Default alpha value from attribute node
I was trying to use the alpha channel as an "exist" factor for a color attribute inside the shader editor and I discovered that the default value for this channel (as default I mean the ...
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How to shade a mesh according to UV distortion / mesh size?
I'm trying to create a reasonably-accurate article of clothing for a character. Unfortunately, cloth simulation is... very challenging for this particular case, and while I am using some simulation as ...
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Distance to nearest edge in a shader
I made a procedural polka dot shader. It's applied to a flat n-gon, rounded via subdiv surface modifier.
I'd like to eliminate all dots that are not fully contained inside n-gon edges. To do this the ...
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Turning on/off .psd layers inside Blender
Is it possible to turn on or off the visibility of specific layers on a .psd file from within Blender? Or better yet: pick Layer Comps within Blender.
I'm asking so that I might use a single .psd file ...
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Is it possible to simulate/facsimilate and then render the optical inhomogeneities of a sonic boom shockwave in Blender?
Relatively new to Blender, been in an out of using it at a novice level for a number of years. I find myself with a need to represent the sonic boom shock front of an object for a project that I'm ...
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Is it possible to convert a material shader mask to geometry in Geometry Nodes?
Hi I’m curious if it’s possible to convert a material shader’s mask into geometry somehow? I was thinking it might be possible with geometry nodes, but not sure how to access the shader mask ...
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How dose blender handle tiny roughness in BSDF with GGX?
I am curioused about the implementation of principled BSDF in blender. As we know, the GGX would produce "inf" value when the roughness is close to zero. Some renders, such as filament, ...
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Fine Lines Cycles Render
I have been interested in high-tech HUD looking renders in Blender. Many of the HUD graphics that I see are pushing the limits of how small text can be while still remaining legible. They push the ...
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Fixing a shader that behaves differently (3.2a =>3.2b)
Basically, I've constructed a shader that I'm very happy with using blender-3.2.0-alpha+master.295d5c6ef5b9-windows.amd64-release.
When I tried to import it into my ...
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