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I'm working on Cycles render. I first added a material, went to color and inputted my texture image. I then unwrapped my object and applied the texture. When I press "shift z" to have a preview render, my object got the nice little texture. But then when I click on render, my texture doesn't show, it's not just plain white.

  • shift z view

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  • Render view

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Any ideas on what i can do to solve this problem?

Thank youu

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This is my settings.

(I added the texture in this one)

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  • $\begingroup$ It's really difficult to guess at what might be wrong. Can you add some screenshots of your node setup and/or render settings? If you don't have enough rep to post more images, just add links in the comments, and we'll get someone to add them to your post for you. $\endgroup$
    – Matt
    Commented Aug 10, 2017 at 16:36
  • $\begingroup$ Did you hide the texture from render view? $\endgroup$
    – HappyBlenderUser
    Commented Aug 10, 2017 at 16:45
  • $\begingroup$ What do you mean hide the texture from render view.. where is the option to enable it, in case I have enabled it by accident. thank you $\endgroup$
    – BlenderForFun
    Commented Aug 10, 2017 at 17:01
  • $\begingroup$ I used motion tracking, so when I clicked on "setup tracking scene" the compositing was done automatically, so I don't think that that is where is the problem. $\endgroup$
    – BlenderForFun
    Commented Aug 10, 2017 at 17:16
  • $\begingroup$ can you upload your file? Use blend-exchange.giantcowfilms.com $\endgroup$
    – user1853
    Commented Aug 10, 2017 at 17:21

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EDIT: This is not the right answer.

This is a common confusion that I wish Blender would clarify. Making a texture work in the viewport is not necessarily the same as making it work in the render.

The short answer is: you have to plug UV coordinates into the Vector slot of your texture node. If you have more than one UV Map, you have to do a bit of trickery (which is not at all obvious) to choose which UV map you plug in.

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To further the confusion, it's quite possible (and not terribly difficult) to make your object use a completely different image and UV map in the viewport than it does in the render.

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  • $\begingroup$ Hello Matt, in shader nodes, I added a texture coordinate and linked "UV" to the vector of my image texture but the result was the same. I also tried to assign the object, but nothing changed. You can try it yourself with my blender file I shared. I might have done something wrong. Do you have any other ideas on what causes the problem? thank you for your repsonse by the way $\endgroup$
    – BlenderForFun
    Commented Aug 10, 2017 at 20:44
  • $\begingroup$ Interesting... I'll check it out! $\endgroup$
    – Matt
    Commented Aug 11, 2017 at 21:31
  • $\begingroup$ Any findings Matt? $\endgroup$
    – BlenderForFun
    Commented Aug 14, 2017 at 9:17
  • $\begingroup$ I'm so sorry, I haven't gotten to this yet. I will, I promise ;-) $\endgroup$
    – Matt
    Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 13:15
  • $\begingroup$ A okay, that's okay. I'll wait. $\endgroup$
    – BlenderForFun
    Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 14:36
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The problem is a compositing problem, but I'm not as familiar with compositing, so I'm not 100% sure what's going on.

I got it working by turning off the layer mask and adding the paper guy to BOTH the foreground and background layers. Then it works, without having to change anything else.

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