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14 questions linked to/from How to avoid terminator artifacts while still using smooth shading and the new pointiness attribute?
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How to smooth shade an object while retaining hard edges?
I frequently come to the problem of having a mesh with parts I would like to render smooth and "hard" edges connecting them.
How can I set the mesh to show the sharp edges but render everything else ...
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How to get rid of inaccurate, jagged mesh shadows [duplicate]
I am using Blender Cycles for a project. At the time of rendering, I am getting inaccurate mesh shadows, as seen in the screenshot below. How can I make sure the shadows are rendered properly?
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Some areas of the mesh are dark (Shadow artefacts)
I've been modeling a hermit crab and I don't know why but some areas of the mesh are really dark on some spots, like the legs and the claws.
I hope you can help me fix it.
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How do I avoid deformations while rendering? [duplicate]
After adding some dunes to my scene, I realized after rendering, it shows polygons as if they were deformed. I tried to "smooth shade" but it didn't work. I also tried to apply subdivision ...
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Weird triangulated shadows in cycles [duplicate]
There are those triangulated shadows on my object in the rendered viewport and in the render,I use a sun as a lamp.How to avoid those weird triangles?
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Strange artifacts
I imported a model but after i set the materials, these strange artifact appeared and the lighting seems wrong.
I tried to recalculate the normals, disable/enable the autosmooth and other things but ...
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Hard edges in render [duplicate]
I've been having this problem with several models and I can never figure out what the issue is.
Hard edges are appearing on the model in rendered view despite it being entirely smooth shaded. There ...
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jagged render using cycles, smooth with eevee [duplicate]
I've checked other questions with these terms but no answers.
When I render an image with default settings in eevee, I get smooth shadows, when I render using cycles the shadows on my snowman show ...
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Shading on model not correct
I can't seem to get the shading on this model correct.
Model settings:
Edge Split
Subdivision surface- 3 subdivisions
Of course smooth shading ON
Model was based on circle with 120 vertices.
My ...
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Normal Map bad shading in Rendered display [duplicate]
I have a Normal Map problem: I've baked a high-poly sphere to a low-poly, but whatever I try there's always a bad shading on the surface of the low-poly in Rendered display, between the light and the ...
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Imported model shows jagged shadows [duplicate]
I'm still new to blender, and I have found a problem that I can't solve.
I'm importing some models to blender from a certain source, but when I use "Rendered" viewport and try to apply some lighting, ...
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Some shadows are too sharp in the render [duplicate]
do you know what is causing this type of shadows? Does it have something to do with the way the mesh is?
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Face smooth rendering in cycles without using Subsurf?
Perhaps this goes against the function of cycles on some philosophical level, but I must ask anyway...
Do I have to subsurf my model to get rid of the hard shadows between faces? If so, the subsurf ...
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