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Volumetric shader not showing up in render
So, I have a problem using the Volumetric shaders in cycles. When I am viewing them in the viewport, they seem to be coming out perfectly fine, whereas when I render them, only the glass surface is ...
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Is there a way to use Textured Solid without getting a Backface Culling effect?
I am trying to have a blender file using Blender 2.69 that allows you to look around and also see textures.
Putting the shading on GLSL and turning on Textured Solid make the textures render great, ...
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Why aren't textures appearing in viewport render but visible in the final render?
I'm messing around with the Barcelona Pavillion demo scene. When I enable the viewport render, no textures are appearing in the viewport render, the objects are just grey:
However, when I render the ...
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In Blender 2.8, 3D Viewport shading render mode is missing. How do I get it back?
I've gotten to a state where my render option in the 3D Viewport is missing. I can render just fine using EEVEE. The screenshot is missing the camera and light, but I've added those and it makes no ...
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Issue or Bug. The shading of an object changes when deselected in "Smooth" mode. (Why Radeon Users May Want to Avoid Ubuntu 16.04)
Issue or Bug. The shading of an object changes (to Flat) when deselected in "Smooth" mode.
These changes only appear to the unselected objects in the scene in object mode.
It's like the object turns ...
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How to view Environment texture in Solid / Texture / Material view?
I saw this happening in some tutorial, but have forgotten for the moment,
What I want is : To make the HDR environment texture appear in 3D viewport without going into Render Mode. I can use the ...
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Smooth Shade a Cone
Very simple question, but I cannot find a solution.
I added a Cone primitive to my scene, but I need it to be smoothly shaded so it looks perfectly round. My first instinct is to turn on smooth ...
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Keeping Shaders in Memory
Is it possible to make Blender keep shaders in memory instead of reloading them each time I switch back to lookdev or render view?
I am losing a lot of time switching between the views simply because ...
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Texture does not apply to Model [duplicate]
I have added a Texture image to my 3d Model. As well as Unwrapping it or adding Seam. But nothing seems to work to add the Texture itself to the Model:
I also checked if there is a UV-Map existing, ...
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What is causing this unexpected shading in 3D view?
I’m encountering an issue and I am wondering if anyone could help me figure out why my created 3D model is displaying this way in 3D view. I have tried to use correct language where possible, but I ...
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Why is viewport scene violet? [duplicate]
I've switched from C4D (getting too costly for a retiree) to Blender 2.8. I've created a simple scene consisting of the monkey atop a plane. Why is everything in the viewport and eevee shaded in ...
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Viewport Shading all grey
Does anybody know why my Viewport Shading has gone all grey. I must have pressed something because it was all fine a minute ago..
thanks
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Parallax occlusion portal effect
I'd like to create a parallax occlusion effect (cycles or eevee) where a cube or plane appears to contain another universe inside of it. I've seen a lot of brilliant solutions that can fake it using ...
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How to change the Viewpoint Shading like in older Blender versions
I'm modelling only with textures and vertex collours, since all the extra shading and effects are game-specific and are done within the level editor (not in Blender).
In older versions of Blender, i ...
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Change red reflection in: object mode - material viewport shading - principled shader
When viewing an object in object mode with viewport shading set to material:
Is there a way to change this red reflection to a different color?
I'm using principled shader in blender 2.79
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what is this weird viewport shading?
Part of this mesh is now shaded in the viewport in solid mode with this look that changes shade when you rotate the view. Like a hologram.
What is it?
Blender... where you hit the wrong key combo and ...
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How to make object transparent on "texture" view mode
I have managed to make an object transparent on solid viewmode, but It is fully opaque when "texture" viewmode is selected.
The reason I need it transparent for textured view is that I'm editing the ...
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Viewport shading shadows not related to lights in scene?
Can someone explain this? I cant see how to control shadows from lights in Viewport Shading mode... There is some wierd other light source...
Also, in Material preview and Render, the "Scene ...
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Accelerator keys in Blender 4.0
Does anybody know how to make accelerator keys to work in Blender 4.0 ?
Can it be fixed by an add-on?
They 'replaced' accelerator keys with a search bar.
I read UI dev discussion and I think their ...
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Missing default hdri in shading option
Am new to blender currently am learning from certain youtube tutorials. The problem is in all the youtube videos a shiny ball is seen the viewport of the shading option which is seen in most of the ...
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Viewport shading option "shadow" not displaying shadow
I'm trying to get the viewport to render shadows to help visualize depth when working in an orthogrpahic view. I toggle the shadows option in the viewport shading menu, but it seems like the only ...
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Is Backface culling possible on another object?
I've tried backface culling on something like toon shading, and it works with flying colors, however, I wanted to try and make an object contain another using backface culling, but despite the fact ...
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How to build a Low Poly on a High Poly while being able to see both?
All the view options I can find make it hard to see the low poly mesh and the high poly mesh at the same time. (This is for baking a high poly onto a low poly) Is there something I'm missing?
This ...
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Attribute to material
I downloaded the .obj result from this tool: https://huggingface.co/spaces/TencentARC/InstantMesh
When I open it in blender I have to switch to viewport shading/ color/ attribute to see the shade.
Is ...
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Model with hair shows up black in rendered viewport shading
First off, I am a complete beginner, and I was following a very high-altitude tutorial. So I expect there is a box that I haven't checked. Here is what I see:
The model is supposed to look like ...
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Is it possible to view a shape throught a specific shader in camera view? Real time, eevee, no comp (kind of shader holdout)
The pupil is in front of the head. Is it possible to make it visible only in the white part of the eye according to the camera view? Like a kind of shader holdout inverted and limited to mask the ...
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Blender crashing when trying to access the viewport shader in blender version 3.5 [closed]
I am still new to the hardware aspect and using 3D software such as blender .My specs on my desktop is just the bare minimum but it could run blender viewport shading with default settings on version ...
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There's these white glitches in object mode when I turn on viewport shading. How do I fix this?
This is what I see. I see these white lines around it. I am very new to blender and I am doing a donut tutorial. I don't know if this is normal or not.
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strange edges look in Viewport
I got strange "triangles" all over my scene in viewport. How to fix it?
more here:
link to YouTube
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Mesh looks OK in wireframe but shading is distorted
Imported an OBJ file in Blender 2.91.0. Mesh looks OK in wireframe view and exports OK to other s/ware but weird in all shaded viewport views. Example included shows object Shaded Flat. All surfaces ...
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Why can't I see my layout view when in Shading mode? [duplicate]
I want to apply a texture to my object, but my window to view my object has disappeared when in shading mode. It has worked in the past, I'm not sure how to get the view back up.
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When I Add A Color To An Object It's Always Transparent When Rendering
When I add a color to an object it's always transparent when rendering or gray in viewport shading tab.
What should I do?
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Material at Viewport Shading some lines seem to appear
I have a problem with my material at Viewport Shading, some lines seem to appear. How can i fix this?
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Preview in viewport using OpenGL shader
I am trying to apply a custom shader (OpenGL, but if that's not possible I can learn OSL) to a STL. I will not use any lights, cameras, I'm not going to render it eventually. I would like to have the ...
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How to visually disable ("hide") Smooth Shading in Edit Mode only?
In Blender 2.8, is it possible to visually disable Smooth Shading ONLY in Edit Mode? I want the surface of my model to soften in Object Mode or render preview, but at the same time, when I enter Edit ...
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how can i fix this : i can see through faces with no x ray or other see through settings enabled
I don't know what happened but whenever I'm outside of orthographic mode faces start to go crazy seeing through the mesh with no x-ray, no wireframe or no limit selection turned on.
It's both in ...
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Transparency shader causing problems (Viewport render different than final render) [duplicate]
I've set up a shader to render a fire/explosion looking material, which ended up quite good when rendering in the viewport. When I hit the render button it looks completely different and I am ...
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Change the RT shader used for the 3d view?
The model I'm working on uses a weird Cg-based shader. Is there a way I can run it in the 3d-view so that I can see what I'm doing?
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How do I achieve this look for the viewport?
How do you get your objects to look like that? is it an addon/plugin/shader/a setting you change?
Tried searching for an ambient occlusion shader or something but came up with nothing.
I was watching ...
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Why isn't my render looking like my object in viewport shading?
I did this a while back, so most of my knowledge of blender has gone out the window. When I render my image the object is no loses its material from that's visible from viewport shading. Any idea how ...
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why some object doesn't show up color
i add red color to cylinder but it doesn't show up color, only the plane with green have color.
what is the problem of my cylinder color?
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Where is the "default color" of a face, when a texture is applied?
In the first image you can see the materials displayed in the SOLID view.
T stands for a material that has a texture applied to it.
W, R, Y stand for 3 materials that have no texture applied to them ...
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How to make an object transparent in the viewport?
I would like to make one of my objects transparent in the 3D Viewport. When I look around I get tons of answers - all different, and some of them a lot more complicated than others and also older from ...
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Can I add random viewport colours in 2.79 like in 2.8?
I was wondering if I can add random viewport colors for better visibility like the new feature added in 2.8, but in 2.79 (maybe an add-on) since my PC doesn't support 2.8 due to my hardware ...
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All objects are black in the render view port
The objects are black in render view port but when I render it I can see the color in the image.
Can anyone please help.
computer info:
iMac
garphic: Radeon Pro 580 8 GB
memory 32 GB DDR4
processor: ...
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Cycles render is blank in viewport render for previews [duplicate]
I think I have the same problem as here Cycles viewport render blank
The rendered preview in cycles does not work. The display in material mode works fine but not in shading mode. And everything works ...
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Final rendered animation is really wierd
My rendered animation is turning up really weird. I don`t even know how to explain the issue. The animation isn't smooth and it's glitchy...I guess.
I have turned up the resolution, changed the ...
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How to fix shading issue with Object in view port
Strange shading issue in view port. How can I fix this? The Left object is what I'm going for in the view port shading.
I've attached the blend file.
Using Blender 3.01 on Ubuntu 20.04
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Why are my render results not coming out the same as viewport?
When I render my scene, it renders the solid view shading instead rendered view shading.
How do I fix this?
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mat cap not showing up
I can't find the mat cap under the shadings panel, does anyone know why?I can find it just fine on my other projects, but not on this one.
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