Questions tagged [color]
Questions centered around how color is specified, calculated, represented, applied, or processed in Blender. This is not for use as a generic tag. Questions may include topics such as color space, color depth, RGB, CMYK, hue, saturation, brightness, Lab color, hexadecimal color.
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Coloring a bezier curve with depth (pipe)? [closed]
Using Blender 2.79 (computer hardware requirements).
I've created several pipes using bezier curves with added depth and resolution, filled Full. I just want to color them. I've been researching and ...
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How to have objects in the render have exactly one color?
Im generating scenes in blender, then making a 'realistic' render and a mask render for each scene. To get the mask render Im setting transparent everything that should be and changing colors of ...
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Image color conversation in compositor for AgX
I used to use color convention for Filmic like this:
But it doesn't work with AgX:
Convert color space doesn't work correctly even with filmic:
That am I doing wrong? That is the proper way to get ...
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How to change the colour of materials from already created 3D model
I'm new to Blender and I bought a 3D wine bottle model and have tweaked it to fit what I need. The file came with its own textures. Diffuse, specular, glossy, and so on. I have imported them to match ...
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How to get the shaders similar to ken sugimori original Pokémon style
Ive been using blender for a while and im experimenting different art styles. As an anime/manga fan ive always loved the old school 90s art style. One particular is the original Pokémon art by ken ...
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How to swap between color palettes in blender?
I currently use color palettes by opening a png in the UV editor and clicking on the respective color, but I am open to other options. How can I make it so that the object is not linked to a specific ...
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Flat colours instead of textures
I'm experiencing a persistent issue with Blender on my MacBook Pro. No matter what material settings I use or whether I apply materials from Blenderkit, the final renders (in cycles) always appear as ...
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When I save my Render to PNG format some parts of render are totally black and white
I need help to find out what caused this problem, My particles in the background are totally colorful and correct in the viewport render and also the final render but after saving all of them are B&...
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Render looks worse than viewport, and the animated version looks even worse
New to Blender and 3d animation here, so I'm probably missing something important with this.
So, my project looks good in my viewport, can't really see any pixels.
When I render it as an image you can ...
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Single Texture Multiple Mask Inefficiencies
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Can't seem to find the answer to this online, but is there a way to get the exact color I need from a texture that has multiple color IDs, which also ...
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State color for bone properties does not respond (i.e. turn orange) to changes from keyframed value
Essentially, the state color does not change to orange when a transformation is made to bones in my armature, which makes it difficult for me to keep track of which transforms have had a keyframe ...
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I can't match the colour in Blender with real pictures
I am making product renders in blender. This means I need to accurately make a colour in blender cycles. But if I make an iPhone for example, I can't get the Colour in blender to match the colour of ...
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Poor quality of texture painting
Im still learning blender and have just created a simple racetrack with some red and white curbs. I have added colors by selecting the objects and applying different materials.
Now I want to add a ...
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Colors are wrong on my file?
I am new to blender, so my question might have a simple answer that I missed. Anyways, my issue is with rendered colors. I downloaded this model from online and the model is great, but the issue is ...
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How would I apply a moving gradient across several objects
What I am interested in doing is taking a color gradient and applying across several objects.
This image is the best idea that I have to recreate what I am looking for. For an example say that the ...
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White and blue surfaces not distinguishable with white sun light
I'm making a shaded relief map that uses a scanned map as the color layer. The original map has an off white border and areas of pale blue indicating sea. When rendered with white sunlight the border ...
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Change color of Passive rigid body when collide with active rigid body?
Is there a solution for my issue:
I have 1 active rigid body and 30 passive rigid bodies.
When active rigid body collides with the passive body then I would like to change passive rigid body color at ...
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Set color on collision? [duplicate]
A newbie question here - I'm doing a basic animation where the object is bouncing off multiple objects down the hill. What I want is to set a specific color for these object whenever the falling ...
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How do I change a material color in this file?
I want to change the color of pages and hardcover from black to white, but I am unable to do it without giving it emission (?).
Dumb noob question, looking for quick smart answers.
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How to create an 'external' database managed with an addon?
I have a problematic : I create multiple models but I use always the same colors. I created an addon with the colors inside a dictionnary, but when I want to update some colors, add or remove others, ...
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How do I put two shaders on the same object separately?
I'm trying to make my character have blue jeans but peach feet, I can't find a way to separate it so that the leg contains both blue AND peach.As always, the .blend file is attached, but only 1 leg ...
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How to have part of texture remain constant with color ramp?
I'm trying to have my model have a 2D look to it like my reference image on the right. I applied a color ramp to the model, but it drowned out the original white that I had textured. I want the eyes, ...
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New Hair Curves: Can't transfer color from faces
I have applied different color materials to cube faces and then added a new hair curves. Is there any easy way to transfer mesh faces color to hair material? Sorry for noob question
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How to apply gamma node to image
Is there a way to apply a gamma node to the image file, like how you can apply a modifier to a mesh?
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how to paint over an existing material with vertex paint?
I have the following material
I was hoping to just paint a lets say a red color using the vertex paint method found in sculpt mode but I cannot set the shader properly for that, I have tried overlay/...
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Geometry Nodes: Place different objects dependend on location with vertex color
I edited my question to hopefully make it more clear and easy to answer:
What is my goal? I want something similar to this in blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfyXNhOnQQg&t=3m2s
My ...
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Eyedropper picks wrong color V3.6
I try to use the eyedropper to pick a paint color I've used before and it always gets the color wrong. I looked up the problem which suggests changing the color management settings (which I did) and ...
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How can I color individual instances of an object using a colorramp in geometry nodes?
I have a point line and am instancing this Parasol object along the points. I only want to alter the specific colored portion of the object so that each instance is a different color in relationship ...
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Base color reverts to old setting on export [duplicate]
I'm still new to Blender (3.6.4) and my first project is fairly simple - a scaled cube with two separate materials. I added RGB base colors while I adjusted the UV map, and then switched them for an ...
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Video Clip Color Spaces
I'm trying to understand how color spaces for video clips in Blender work, currently the video clip I'm importing looks quite a bit off. I've set the render view transform to Standard and the video ...
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Dynamic Paint vs Run Away Paint
I'm running a Render Animation on a dumbbell painting scene (Related Question). I'm using a standard scheme to simulate Dynamic Paint and Particle System. This scheme is described by some YouTube ...
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I'm trying to make a 3d model with a texture paint on it. For some reason when I go to rendering/shading some of the textures/colors are gone
This is pretty much my first character i've modeled. I painted some texture on it (basically just made the horns black. So for some reason the black color on the horns are gone and instead are now ...
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Complementary Colors using the Color wheel
In Photoshop, I can find the complementary color easily by adding 180 to the Hue (or subtracting 180, if the Hue is already over 180).
Since Blender maps the color Wheel from 0 to 1, shouldn't I ...
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How to make world color not affect any mesh in eevee?
I want to make my world color in my animation blue, to mirror the sky, but it makes all of my meshes colored blue in the render mode. I'm using version 3.2.2. My goal is to have the meshes not ...
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How to make my fish warmer and cozier
I'm fairly new to blender, actually I modeled my fish in Fusion 360 then imported the mesh to blender and assigned a colored material to them. I'm looking for a warm cozy, cartoony (but not cell ...
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Dynamic Paint and PBR
I'm trying to create a dumbbell coloring scene. Initially, the dumbbell has a simple PBR material.
When adding the 'Attribute' node, the dumbbell loses its color.
When adding a “Mix Color” node ...
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How to export model as alembic file with texture material (color)?
I have created a 3d model with animations. But when I export it as an alembic file, the color/texture I have added goes away. I made the model using geometry nodes. There are a total of three objects ...
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Scripting for loop adding attribute incorrectly
I'm attempting to add a Color Attribute to each selected object, Here's the simple code:
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How do I change the color on the lighting in different frames
Hi this is my first post on this website so sorry if there are any problems with this but let’s get into my question.
I have a scene where a character falls and I want a scene where there’s a light ...
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How can i give multiple objects a vertex color attribute?
I'm trying to export from blender into houdini and keep the color attribute, I've found adding a Color attribute in the "Object data properties" and then baking the color works great but i ...
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Preventing Blender from automatically changing Texture Color Space: A Design Flaw?
I've just discovered that Blender automatically changes the Color Space for newly loaded or replaced textures. For example, I wanted to replace a Normal Map with another one and realized way too late ...
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Lowpoly model painted with a color palette has wrong colors when imported into Unreal Engine!
EDIT: SOLVED. The issue was with my color palette. I don't know why but the 16x16 size was causing problems (I assume). Switching to a 512x512 palette fixed the color issues!
I am fairly new to ...
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Hiding/Making an object visible affect the material colors of an unrelated Object
I'm fairly new to Blender, but I'm having fun working on resculpting a Ratchet model from the Transformers Prime Wii game, and everything's been going pretty smoothly so far. I, however, encountered ...
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How can I set the color/material of an object added/appended from another file?
It is not possible to set the color of the object added from the file. What am I doing wrong?
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Cast Colored light on white surface
Hej !
Does anybody have a trick to cast a coloured light on a white surface in a stronger way than a pale color ? I want to casted color to be like on the second picture but on a surface like the ...
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How to create an image in Blender with python using Blender 3.6
I want to create images with a solid color in the project folder. But I get errors like this:
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previous key frame color still show to all frames that make dificult to fill color in current key frame
I used color fill to current keyframe but in previous fill color of girl which is pink color still showing to next key frame. onion skin is disabled and this fill color is showing till the end of all ...
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Microsoft Powertoys renders STL with color data on thumbnail, how can i bring it to blender?
I have my STL files on the folder and powertoys are installed on my PC so i can review STL files.
I noticed that Powertoys are actually rendering color to them, which is odd as i thought STL files don'...
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How can I determine the brightness of my materials so that it will work for most people?
I am working on a procedural road system that will also be used by other people.
Currently, I am searching for a method to ensure that the materials I create, such as asphalt and concrete, possess the ...
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How to Preserve Base Color of Non-Node Materials When Converting to Node-Based Materials?
I have dozens of objects (all curves, not meshes) imported with their own material and Base Color defined. I need to use nodes, but when I do, the Base Color changes to white, ignoring the color of ...
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