Questions tagged [cycles-render-engine]
Cycles is a ray tracing render engine that can be used to achieve photo realistic results in Blender. It was introduced officially in 2.61. Use this tag for any Cycles related posts.
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Big difference in rendered appearance between blender 3.6.4 and 4.0.2
i created a scene in blender 3.6.4 with some primitive shapes and some simple lights and little bit of compositing
it was good in 3.6.4 like this:
but with the same settings in 4.0.2 its very ...
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Objects not rendering properly in Cycles
I'm very new to rendering, just started playing with Blender to get a good render of something I built in Sketchup. For some reason when I switch to Cycles there is one set of objects that start ...
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Render my project is a big problem [closed]
I am new on blender since i've just started a video game program 15 weeks ago. I am trying to make a cycles render for my scene that has a rotation on one item in the scene and i've made a particules ...
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Muddled results from many-reflected mirror
I'm building a geometric shape with meshes that have emissive shaders along the interior edges, and the faces of the shape are "two way mirrors". The idea is that these emissive shaders act ...
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Blender ram usage goes through the roof for no reason
For some reason blender at times uses way more ram than needed. A fresh scene will use 5.5gigs of vram opposed to original scene running out of vram(24gigs).
The only way I've found to resolve this ...
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Problem in rendering [closed]
I am making a low poly horse in blender. Any time I try to render the image using either EEVEE or Cycles, Blender shuts down after a few minutes.
What can I do?
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How to draw grease pencil hidden behind VDBclouds, without being is always at the forefront?
I want to draw something hidden behind VDBclouds, but the Grease Pencil is always at the forefront of the view.
What should I do?
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Floor material reflections. How i may reduce them?
How to reduce floor material regflection? Here is my nodes of floor texture
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How to use render layers with different sample counts?
Is there a way to use render layers with different sample counts? For instance if I want to render a character with 256 samples but an object in the background with only 64 samples? I cannot find any ...
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CUDA Launch failed in Linux [closed]
In Linux debian 12 I was rendering a video with 150 frames and everything was fine until the error pops up at frame 58 " launch failed Cuda queue....."And the scene complelty stopped ...
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How to give Gold material to transparent png image [duplicate]
I have a Black Transparent png image.
I want to give golden metallic material to it. Is there anyway or shader to convert image to material. Any suggestion or help. Thx.
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Star / Magic Particles
I'm doing something for Christmas and I would love to add a stars/lights/magic trail to Santa Claus.
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6cggDxzBk
How can I do that? I will render using ...
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How would I fix my diffuse colors not appearing from my High Poly baking object?
I'm currently attempting to bake down details from a thin string object to a box object so that the box gets the colors and uses less tris than the string. A Simple High Poly to Low Poly bake.
My ...
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How to create a material that is not affected by light? (Blender 4.0, Cycles)
Blender 4.0, Cycles. How to create a material that is not affected by light? I would like to make this part not affected by light
Blender file: DOWNLOAD
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Bizarre artifacting when baking diffuse selected to active
Getting this bizarre artifacting across my UV while trying to bake this candy cane spiral texture to them. I've used selected to active in the past to bake textures from existing meshes and it worked ...
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Is there a way to change the color of the emissive object without changing the color and strength of the light
So I have this scene
and I very much like the amount of light and its color on everything inside the room, but the windows are way lighter than i want them to be. But if I change the strength of the ...
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The stings of my cactus look weird with a weird shading but only in cycles?
Why do they have those black noisy spots ? I have created a vertex group from the cactus vertices and assigned a particle system to those. For the particle System i have created a little cone that i ...
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how to change Rendering Tile in cycle?
I am using Blender 4.0 and i saw the rendering tile in cycles hs changed. While I am using older version there are lots of small number of tiles while rendering a image in cycle. But In 4.0 version ...
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Glare node Final Render is not same with Viewport Render Glare [duplicate]
Final render of my scene not showing glare node correctly same with viewport render,
Here's my look viewport render with simple glare composition.
And here'e the result:
can someone help me or i do ...
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How to turn reflection light into limited color? (cycles)
heyya, I'm having trouble in making this camera lens:
These glasses are under two same lamps, but turns out different colors
I tried a lot to control the color but it always look like a green lens:
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doom style directional sprite material
I am attempting to create a Doom style 8-directional sprite material for a plane that changes based on viewing angle. I was following a 6 years old question from here: How do I change between ...
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How to make glass dispersion behind a no dispersion glass? (cycles) and why light reflections is triangle in a round surface?
I created a camera lens in cycles, and I want it's core lens to display color dispersions:
However, there are a glass panel that covering the core lens which prevent color dispersions to show up.
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Object is not visible in the rendering tab and within the rendered scene but visible in the animation tab
I've just started to use Blender and I am trying to add a 3D object to the video scene with Blender. The default tutorial was ok and everything worked out with the default 3d monkey mesh. Then I ...
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Modifier issue in Cycles - Black Ghosting
I'm fairly new to Blender and was hoping you could help.
I'm creating a short animation for a University project and have come up against an issue.
I'm creating an animation where a sphere splits in ...
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Point light V3.6 vs V4.0 not same Radius effect [duplicate]
I'm testing the unexpected V4 of Blender.
I'm looking a strange diférences:
For the Point light / Radius value = 0.25M it look diférent in Blender V4.0.1
The workaround shared in this post New Spot ...
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How to instance objects including particle system?
I've searched high and low and couldn't find any answer to a seemingly simple problem. I have a sphere with a particle hair modifier applied and I'd like to instance this multiple times using geometry ...
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Why is the render view and the render output so different
What would cause the viewport render(left) and the output render(middle) - no compositing involved. The voronoi lines are sharper in the rendered output and the colors are different.
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How to create a moving texture effect?
I would like to create something like the red electric board in the video using blender, but I don't know how to do it.
I would like to know if there are any experts who can help me.
Thank you in ...
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why is the rendered view in cycles blurry but not in eevee
I've tried messing with a number of setting to get the rendered view to look decent using cycles but I gave up a while ago when I noticed switching to eevee was meeting my needs at the time. I am now ...
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Cycles - Object instancing
I am trying to create a scene with instanced object. So far I found a way to do it like this:
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Cycles doesn't Render Particle Scale Changes... Is this a Bug?
When I create a particle system in Cycles, It looks fine in the viewport and in Eevee, but the second I render it in Cycles, it's like it forgets its scaling Texture ramp.
Below is the texure Ramp Im ...
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Is there any way to get rid of pixel bleed happening in UV Bakes that occur along the seams of an object?
I'm trying to bake a 4096x4096 image of my object (diffuse, normal, rough, ambient occlusion) and I'm using a UV that can't be changed (meant to be uploaded to a game tool) and whenever I'm baking, I ...
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Glossy Direct Pass on Donut Too Sharp and Bright
I followed Blender Guru's donut tutorial Part 14 for compositing.
But for the step adding Glossy Direct Pass, my black and white Donut is way too sharp and bright when compared to the tutorial one.
I ...
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Cycles cant render because of openimage denois
I am using blender 3.4 version and I couldn't render my image in cycles . I enable the denoise button in render tab and when i finally render in cycles its showing as error "built without ...
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How can this object change its volume based on the view mode I'm in?
I'm currently making a image based on a photo with CGI elements added to it. Therefore, I'm playing with holdouts and shadow catchers. But I'm having this really weird issue where the ground (that's ...
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black regions in cycle rendering [duplicate]
While rendering in cycles the supposed rooftops render all black so do the roads, the file is a collada imported from sketchup, I've trided - To solve this just select the object and press tab to go ...
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Does Blender 4 Cycles handle light differently?
I have a large file with lots of lights, that I created and have been working with Blender 3.6. When I opened it with Blender 4 I realized that renders are much different (Cycles); mainly brighter. I ...
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Render not work like in the 3d viewport
So everything is working fine in viewport, the wheel attach with the car rigging in the viewport. But when i render animation by png single frame. The wheel come off the car start moving on it own but ...
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Why doesn't my object material show in Viewport shader?
I am having trouble seeing my Boat Materials in Rendered Viewport Shader Mode. It is only showing in materials.
Original project
Pack.Blend
Beige Wallpaper Jpg
Wood Wallpaper Jpg
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Compositing effects not applying in final render 3.6
Hello, I changed the color slightly when compositing, but when it renders it still shows the original image. Im not sure what im doing wrong, this is from an image sequence I rendered.
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Render in 4.0 very long
I have been working on a scene in Blender 3.6 and it takes 1 min to render. When I open the same scene in Blender 4.0, it is long and estimate the render of the frame to 44 hours.
I use Cycle.
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Some materials rendering dramatically different under Blender 4.0; is there a quick fix?
I recently upgraded from Blender 3.6.5 to Blender 4.0 and I've noticed that some of my existing materials are rendering differently, some subtle, some dramatically different. Is there something ...
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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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How to create moss or grass in the cracks of bricks
I want to solve this problem, I don't know how to create this landscape. I hope there is a nice person who can answer my doubts
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Smoke Domain duplication over plane
I am new to Blender but I've learned a lot since I started. I am used to CAD design so I understand how a blender works as long as it's explained to me. I am having a problem where I want to make a ...
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New Spot Light behavior in 4.0 no longer renders in a volume
I have a model of the Abyss Cab 3 Mini sub. The model has a number of spotlights that cast a beams in a volume. It all works in 3.6 but in 4.0 all my spotlights are broken and don't work like the old ...
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In Shading how do I make lighting physics from Cycles work in Eevee?
I was following this YouTube video that teaches you how to make stylized trees using a simple shading build that can react to lighting efficiently. Unfortunately, this trick only works in Cycles, I ...
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Blender is not detecting Amd gpu compute on windows [duplicate]
I use windows
I have ryzen 5 3400g with radeon vega but now i added rx 580 2048sp recentky but it shows in belnder that gpu compute is invisible.....no amd gpu waas detected..though my blender and amd ...
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Help! Is this object rotation on a displaced surface a bug? I can't figure it out
I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something unknowingly to cause the issue, and at this point I'm feeling pretty stumped:
My render is not matching my viewport.
I've checked all modifiers ...
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Cannot make lights visible in Render mode
I have set up area lights in Blender, with Ray Visibility set to check the Camera option. However, when I go to Viewport Render, the lights are not visible. I also have set the Scene Lights options ...
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