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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The background image don't appear
so in viewport I can see it but in render no, I checked everything, ask chat gpt, etc.
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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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Render my project is a big problem
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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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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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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Importing multilayer .exr files to compositor for mist pass
I've rendered an animation using .exr multilayer.(Overnight on batch file, files look Ok.)
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but should I be able to re-import the files and still use the Mist Pass etc? ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Out of memory only on Render
I just upgraded from a 1060-3gb to a 3070 TI, so I'm not sure if I haven't set it up properly, but everything runs perfect and smooth in the viewport without nearly maxing out my card, however, as ...
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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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Animation with unintentional black boxes
I'm making an Animation with a Motion Track. In my preview render everything is fine, but when I render my scene in png there are black boxes in some pictures.
At the beginning of the animation these ...
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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
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How to get accurate colors with Filmic Blender
I'm loving Filmic blender for the wonderful dynamic range. But I am not able to get accurate colors - it always looks little washed out. I understand that it's due to the wider dynamic range of the ...
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removing the white border in material 3d viewport when selecting alpha blend or alpha clip
i'm trying to get these leaves to show correctly in the 3d viewport (not render) with the transparency applied and no white border around the leaves, i had to choose alpha clip or alpha blend to get ...
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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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imported .dae and .fbx, I cannot see this textures on rendered view
I purchased a city model a couple years ago. I imported the model as .dae and .fbx to my Blender v2.9. As you can see in the screenshot, there are textures on buildings but I cannot see this textures ...
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On a MacBook using Metal Is there a point to having both GPU and CPU checked in Cycles Render Devices?
but have been using Blender for awhile now. I have tried searching for an answer for this and even tried the Blender documentation.
GOAL: to have Blender work as stably and efficiently as possible.
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Creating a portal effect in Blender 2.8
I would like to be able to make a portal effect in Blender 2.8. The idea is that you can look through a 'window' from one world to another. This could be achieved by looking between 2 scenes, or 2 ...
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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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Black artifacts on plane with procedural displacement
I'm trying out the procedural displacement in 2.8 with Cycles following this tutorial. The object has 100 subdivisions in addition to a SubSurf modifier, and one material with two shaders separated to ...
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Texture becomes black in Cycles
I downloaded a 3D model from Sketchfab and it looked normal when I rendered it in Eevee. When I switched to Cycles, most of the parts of the texture turned black. From what I read, other people who ...
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How to only render reflections on surface and keep the background transparent?
I want to render a scene with a glossy object and a glossy floor plane and I want it to have a transparent background. I can do it without the reflections on the floor but when I try to add the ...
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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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emitter particles do not appear in the render [closed]
I have been creating particles using the emitter and animating them and there are several frems in which the particles disappear when rendering. I am doing the render in cycles with a Noise Threshold ...
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Blender crashes when rendering (and it's not because any reason you might think of) [closed]
Blender crashes every time I want to render an animation.
-I tried many different scenes, but it also crashes with low poly objects and low resolution textures
-VRAM is at 16% usage when rendering
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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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OSL error whend rendering/previewing in Beta 3.5
Does anyone know why I get this error when trying to preview or render with Blender 3.5 Beta with OSL and light tree enabled?
OSL group data size (2296) is greater than the maximum supported with ...
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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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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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Can i stop rendering while i'm rendering in a video format
I am rendering one file of 200 frame it's been an hour an it is 30 frames. I am rendering it in a FFmpeg Video format. Can i stop rendering it but also it should be playable? Can someone tell me how ...
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How to prevent black holes when baking diffuse colors?
I am trying to bake a high poly model onto a low poly model I created using Instant Meshes. However, when baking the diffuse colors I get a lot artifacts (black holes under the chin and in the eyes):
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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.
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Render over-exposed once exported
When I render my image, the render looks normal when viewed in Blender. However, when I export the image as a PNG, the photo becomes over-exposed.
I don't think the compositor has anything to do with ...
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Cycles renders alpha channel in black and grey instead of black and white
I have a lighting setup with an HDRI map and a few supporting lights. When I render my image, my alpha channel is grey and black and I can also see that my cryptomatte channels are semi transparent. I ...
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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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How to write a python code for changing color space of image texture attached to normal map as well as strength of normal map?
I want to write a code for changing color space of all image textures attached to normal maps as well as strength of all normal maps to 1.
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Color not coming through glass?
I'm trying to do this tutorial to make the cup as shown in the video but I'm having problems with the glass and the color coming through it.
the glass has light coming through it (Or it might be ...
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Weird glass reflections
Trying to make a simple glass but the shading is clearly off (for reference it's similar to IKEA's POKAL glass). To add thickness I didn't use a solidify modifier because the outside geometry is a ...
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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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How to use environment map in cycles render mode?
I made a model that has some reflective surfaces. But since the model is alone in the world, most of those surfaces look flat and not shiny at all. What I want is to add an environment map, probably ...
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Hiccup on looping lego walk cycle
I have noticed that’s this topic seems to be a common theme but what ever I have seen on other questions doesn’t seem to help. My character starts in the middle with his walk cycle and using math ...
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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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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 ...
