Questions tagged [compositing-nodes]
Questions related to compositing nodes available for compositing render layers into final renders in the compositor.
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Why is the compositing window white and how do I get nodes?
I'm new to blender, when i press the compositing tab I get this:
I can't find the nodes, where are they?
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Why some objects won't show and selectable in Cryptomatte?
I have created some metalballs and animated them, and I need them to get excluded and masked in Composition, but I can't select them in any kind of matte: asset, material or object
The problem gets ...
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How can I use Vector Blur with separated PNG sequences of Vector/Z/Image?
I would like to vector blur my layers separately (Car and Environment as you see). So I have 3 png sequnces for each layers. But it doesn't work.
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Subtitute 3D Object Texture in After Effects
Imagine a 3D animation of an open book surrounded by a hugely complex scene, with the camera slowly approaching and/or orbiting it in multiple different trajectories made to flow into each other to be ...
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VFX Video not showing in Rendered View
I'm trying rendering and VFX for the first time, and I got the Motion Tracking to work and but whenever I try to render the video or go into the rendered view it doesn't show the video. Here's a ...
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Match HTML colour in compositor
I have rendered my Blender scene to an EXR. I want to composite this render over the top of a solid colour background. The background must exactly match a specific brand colour.
When using the "...
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How to add mask control points in compositor masks?
I need to mask the outer part of the box, yet CTRL + Left Mouse Button doesn't add any controlpoints in the image editor. The tutorials I've found are useless since ...
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The viewer node BACKGROUND image in my COMPOSITOR tab doesn't seem to be working properly
The background (VIEWER NODE) image in my compositor tab seems to be affected by some bug. It wouldn't display the background image. But if you'd hold down the alt + v keys (to enlarge) at some point a ...
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Blender compositing - Rendered composited image is not the same colour depth or type as original composite
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I have made a comp (original comp - top image below). I've rendered the composited CG element out as a tif sequence RGBA 16 bit no compression. I've had to do this because there are multiple ...
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Batchrendering with integrated Background
I want to batchrender multiple cameras in a scene with integrated background as a separate layer in a multilayer EXR file.
For batch rendering I use the following add-on:
https://github.com/BlenderHQ/...
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Why the transparent background settings is showing a black background after rendering in Eevee?
I have set the tranparent checkbox in "render panel
File format as FFmpeg video : Container as QT :Video Codec as QT rele/QT Animation
But the video is not tranparent when I play it on canva?
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Get Marker position in Compositor
I have an animation set up that contains a camera switch (Camera bound to marker).
For the two different cameras I want to use two different compositor node setups.
The way I am doing it now is to mix,...
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Can I choose which frames to render in an animation?
I want to analyse an existing movie clip for edit points. At each edit point along the length of this clip I would like to render the frame found there. I would like to discard the rest of the frames.....
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Render layer node only renders on frame 1 when Render Animation is run
I was following the Donut tutorial and backtracked to do compositing. However, when I try render animation -> the composite is applied on frame 1 but then TAKES OVER for the rest of the render ...
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How to set a grayscale color value for objects?
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I would like to render a 16bit BW PNG image. I have a scene with several objects and I want to set the color of each object using a 16bit grayscale value. See an example open with GIMP.
This ...
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How to make composite result show up in VSE with a scene node
I am trying to get my Composite result to show up in a scene node in the Video sequencer, but with no luck. The composite result is in a separate scene.
Edit: In the VSE I selected the compositor ...
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Is there a way to export the Cryptomatte "pick" image entirely?
I'm using the cryptomatte node to export individual mattes for various items in my renders, but I'd like to also export the entire "pick" image to a new file just as it's visible in the node ...
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Compositing lowers image quality
While doing some photography compositing work, I've noticed that if you get any image through Blender's Image node, the final compositing suffers a noticeable degradation in quality. There is really ...
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How do i make a texture move/slide? For a waterfall texture, ofcourse
What nodes do i need for a sliding texture which goes down, just like a waterfall?
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Mute File Otput nodes
there is a similar thread but not answering exactly what I want so that's why I created this new one. I found a tutorial on Youtube saying that if we mute a File Output node it doesn't save those ...
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Is it okay to use compositor after rendering animation's image sequence?
Is it okay to use compositor after rendering animation's image sequence? Will there be any issue or downside to it? Or is it just the same when you do it during render?
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matching image in plane/mask to video footage
I recently watched Ian Hubert's lightsaber tutorial. About midway through, he discusses using a plane with an emission material and a clean plate image (as the color) to animate the lightsaber ...
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How do I duplicate node with connections
I got a node with multiple connections. How can I duplicate it so I wouldn't need to reconnect them all over again? Maybe there is a way to copy connections from one node to another?
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Would it be possible to port the Color Space node from the compositor to the shader editor?
my colleagues and I are trying to switch to ACES, we are however experiencing difficulties since we make a lot of use of procedural materials and nodes that do not start from imported textures.
one ...
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When playing the animation in compositing some render layers are disabled or switched
I'm quite new to compositing in blender and wanted to start comping an animation I created. I've plugged all the different passes to get my beauty layer for each view layer. When I'm on the first ...
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Why are the render passes that I enabled not showing up on OpenEXR Multilayered file?
I am compositing two scenes and I have ran into a problem with the second one. The actual geometry of both scenes are in two different Blend files (Scene 1 and Scene 2). I am compositing both scenes ...
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Creating "Text Cloud" like in comics
I need to create the "Text Cloud" like in comics. There should be "layers". The top layer is "Text" - the object inside the "Text Cloud". It should be higher ...
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Volum is dissapear in EEVEE
Bendery. There is a problem with the disappearing volume (by the arrow)
I'm doing a long render for three days. The picture is divided into three layers -
background (space), EEVEE
mountains (mountain+...
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Can Blender bake emissive volumes with alpha and bloom? Composite glare? How about using SimpleBake addon?
I've never baked anything in Blender. I've watched many videos and read lots. But nowhere can I find anything that talks about baking/SimpleBake combining emissive volumes with alpha and bloom. And ...
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How to have video output different resolution than render layer?
In my compositing Nodetree, I need to create an output which have the input image (1920x1080 - Render Layers) twice (up and below - below part is simplified here).
Thus the output resolution will be ...
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compositing 4 scenes from 4 camera views, remove overlapping areas of final composite
I have tried for a week to get this to work. I am trying to create a setup for a pyramid peppers ghost output. I have 4 scenes linked and using a mask I can get the cameras to composite correctly so ...
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freestyle with no faces in compositing
I have decided to use freestyle for my line art over the line art modifier for a few geometry features that it has. However, this is coming with the problem of not being able to render freestyle on ...
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Lens Flare with Compositing
I'm following this tutorial to create a lens flare effect with the compositor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiD4bWvsxG4&ab_channel=SardiPax
But after playing around with it for 45 minutes, I ...
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Light Occlusion Mask?
I am trying to get a mask of Received Shadows, but without any Self Shadow or Shading. Using a Shadow Catcher mostly works, but not quite.
Here is a simple setup of some spikes, a sun lamp, and a ...
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How to make volumetric fog darker in the compositor?
So I rendered this glacier scene in layers and I am trying make the volumetric fog darker. However, whenever I try to make the fog darker (i.e. with either the color ramp, color balance, RGB curves, ...
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Compositing isn't working through reflection
I have my scene composited to shine like this:
I have a reflection cubemap on a sphere, and a camera pointing right at it, to get a good view of the earth seen from an astronaut's helmet.
I'm having ...
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Blender Guru's Realistic Earth - problem with adding blur
I have been following this guide - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YZzHn0iz8U - to create earth. Got to the section on add the blur to the composite (at 14:12 in the video), I only see it when I have ...
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Glare effect in compositing won't show up in rendered animation
this is kind of weird since i used glare effect already in past renderes. I'm currently using the new 3.3 version and glare effect in compositing is showing up while frames are being rendered but not ...
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When using the mist pass in the compositor I get dark outlines on the edges of objects
I'm getting dark outline on the edges of my character when I use the mist pass:
You can see on the hands and the head a clear outline which I'm not getting if I don't use the mist pass... ?
Also the ...
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Have a light blow out the image "Naturally" during an animation
I'm animating a supernova and would like the camera to adjust naturally to the light levels.
So during the explosion there should be no stars visible in the background.
Before explosion
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Material in Ambient Occlusion turns out blue
Some materials in my Ambien Occlusion render layer turn out blue. Some transparent materials turn blue, but not all of them. How can I turn the color off and render everything in greyscale?
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Render layers are weirdly scaled in composition
I am building a comic-making plugin and have an issue with the compositing, it's either a bug or a feature I don't understand.
For the setup: I have five scenes, one for each panel, and then a master ...
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Im trying to export my render transparent with glare but it doesnt work [duplicate]
This is what i want it to look like
but this is what im getting...
how can i get it to export how it looks in compositing?
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Blend two images sequences one into another in compositor
In compositor, I have two image sequence input nodes.
Both image sequences contain 300 images.
In the output (either Viewer, Composite or File Output) I want to blend from "100% first ,0% second ...
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Rendering smoke simulation as a png/exr with transparency
I built a simple smoke/fire simulation, and chose the scene film to be transparent. When I view the render in the compositor, the transparency seems correct (the half-transparent regions of the smoke ...
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Compositor : preserve jpeg in sRGB while using Filmic on 3D render [duplicate]
In order to tweak material colors on my 3D photo-montages, I would like to quickly superimpose a 3D scene render on top of a jpeg image in the compositor. However, since I use a filmic look for the ...
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Can we use "Grease Pencil" to mask other objects?
I'm trying to use a "greasy pencil" to cut out other objects. Like this red cube in the example. The white cube and the pink circle are in a collection. I want to make an object go through ...
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Particles restarting throughout rendered animation
I have a short animation which uses a particle emitter to replicate fire.
If i play the animation through the viewport, all seems fine, and the particles continues until it dissipates.
However, in the ...
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Animation doesn't look like rendered frames
I rendered around 500 frames for my animation. I then opened a different project (Video editing) and
used the frames as an image sequence.
Now to my problem:
My rendered animation looks nothing like ...
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Inverse plane track deform
Is there a way to invert the plane track deform (or corner pin) composition node so that an arbitrary quadrilateral can be mapped to a rectangle, square or (would be even better) to a different ...
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