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65 questions linked to/from Why does an object with a glossy shader render in black?
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Trying to make object look like metal doesn't work [duplicate]
I followed a tutorial on how to make something look like metal, it worked in the video and seems to have worked for everyone in the comments. For me it looks like this even tho I have checked that ...
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Baked metal material looks different than material preview [duplicate]
I have tried a lot of different settings, but I'm not sure how to make the material preview to bake the same. I've tried mixed shaders in world settings with diffuse and glossy, but they all turn out ...
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Rendering shiny steel on a white background? [duplicate]
Even though there are several other questions with answers in this blog, I found the answers to my following question very useful.
I want to render animations of a shiny type of steel, for example, ...
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Why is my Render coming out grey and flat? [duplicate]
I followed a Youtube video to make a disco ball from a mesh UV sphere. It looks great until I go into rendered and then it just looks grey and flat. Do you know what i'm doing wrong?
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Not getting the glossy in the metallic material render [duplicate]
So i know this question might be worded better but I'm literally new to blender.
Lemme sum it up:
I've learned blender through youtube tutorials to make Chrome effect typography.
I import the vector ...
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Why Do My Objects Render Without Materials? [Ceramic] [duplicate]
So, I'm trying to make some ceramic (copied some nodes from online) objects for a practice project, but I can't get it to show up when Rendering. I tried to simplify, just apply it to a sphere, but I ...
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How to recreate this metallic look? (Chrome coating) [duplicate]
I'm starting out with Blender and I want to create a similar shape to this one, but I can't seem to find any tutorial good enough to recreate the look.
How to set up the lighting?
Any help will be ...
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No matter how many lights or suns I add, this shiny model stays dark [duplicate]
Very new to blender, first time question. I could not find a similar problem searching existing answers.
I have a rendering, and no matter how many lights or suns I add, this model stays dark. That'...
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Glossy object seems dark and non-reflective [duplicate]
Hi all, having trouble seeing a good render (cycles) of this donut I'm trying to make. Setting is glossy, but seems dark and non-reflective, just looks like puddy and basically all other BDSF looks ...
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How can I render realistically? [duplicate]
I have the problem, that all my object look very unrealistic, even with shaders on them.
I broke the problem down to copying a template object to my Blender file. In the original, it looks very ...
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Glossy material not seen as expected [duplicate]
I was trying to create a pit and assign a glossy material to the hole to give an appearance of a water body.So,I added a plane subdivided it,added a subsurf modifier,extruded a middle portion inwards ...
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Glossy object looks different in rendered view (Cycles) [duplicate]
A glossy object looks perfect in material preview ,but when I come to render mode (I try to use cycle), everything looks completely different.
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Render result is worse than render view mode. It looks very flat like 2D. How to fix it? [duplicate]
I am a newbie, using Blender 2.91 to make a sword. But my render result looks very flat like 2D, even worse than render view image. I am not satisfied with images on render view and material view mode ...
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My render (2D animation) does not contain a texture (metallic) [duplicate]
I am a total beginner and I started making my first animation! I finished my animation and wanted to export it. But when I look at the export or render, I get a grey dark model. Not the model with ...
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My text looks metallic and reflective on Material preview mode, but not on render view mode [duplicate]
So I'm trying to make a simple animation for the "Avengers" text logo.
I'm trying to make the border of the letters metallic and silvery and the center of the letters Red.
In Material view ...
