Questions tagged [light]
Questions about light, lamps, lighting and lighting issues.
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How can I make an object a light source in blender 2.8 Cycles?
I set the plane to emmision and set the strength to 300, but it doesn't emit light. I just want to use this plane as light source.
Please tell me how to do this.
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Very high contrast in indoor model
I'm new to blender and am trying to create an indoor model. I've emulated fluorescent lighting with some point lights placed inside a glass cylinder. For some reason the contrast in my model is very ...
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Get information whether a surface is visible from a point light source or not
I am working on an optimization problem where I want to find information about the amount of faces of a mesh visible from a set of randomly distributed points. Ideally, I would like to index the faces ...
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When I render my animation my main light source is not rendered. How can I get the light to show up in the final render?
//i.stack.imgur.com/5XYUs.png
All help is appretiated
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Why do normals have two directions?
First, this is not a duplicate of questions asking what are normals or why do we use them. I understand that they indicate the angle a surface or point is "facing" and we use this for shading and ...
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How to only render the outline/edge of a light source?
I'm a beginner in Blender, using version 2.79b. I have a problem, where I don't know if a solution is actually possible. My scenario is the following:
In Blender Render I have a landscape where at a ...
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How to disable this shadow? [duplicate]
the shadow is allways to the right and I dont know why it is there.
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How can I remove these reflections from the sun light?
This is a low poly room with only two walls.
I have a sun light that I want to shine through the window, which works (in the green circle) but I don't want the sun to give light on the walls (in the ...
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How to animate a surface that only emits light when touched by object?
I'm trying to find a way to make a surface (or object) that sort of "reacts" to touch/collision by emitting glowing light around that touched area. Best example would be the scenes in James Camerons "...
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How to set ambient light with EEVEE
I have a model from an OBJ import and I would like to light it in (using Eevee) in a way that is similar to OpenGL ambient light. The only thing that I found similar is the background color of the ...
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Making an emission shader which does NOT cast light
So i tried gooogling and asking around in discord servers but no one is really helping nor understanding what I need.
To sum it up, I need an object to LOOK like the sun in 3d space, aka it needs to ...
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Cycles: realistic light refraction for glass lenses
I found this image somewhere on the Internet:
It was made with Cinema 4D and some special renderer. I decided to try create somethings similar using our favourite Blender and Cycles.
To achieve a ...
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Render between outdoor and indoor
I've some experience with Blender (and previously 3DS Max), but I only do something with this once every year.
I have a scene where I want to render somethings outside and other inside, but I am ...
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Why object doesn't emit light?
I followed this tutorial. Rechecked, but still no light on a surface from emitting object.
Here is properties of the emitting object and the world:
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Fall Trees for Fall Scene
Currently, I’m working on this fall scene.
I want to add trees in the background like this:
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Also make the light look like it’s filtering thru the trees. So, my question is two-fold:
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How to make this lighting in Blender Internal?
Is there a way to emulate this node in Internal, and with diffuse textures on the model?
Take this low-poly sphere with a diffuse texture on it, for example. The first screenshot is the model ...
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Why does it look lighter?
Im working on an anvil, following this tutorial all the way around without noticing.
But now it comes to the texture part and Im totally freak out when it turns out that my anvil is so much lighter ...
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Background image reduces light from HDRI
I'm building an interior scen consisting of a room with four windows, see image below. Behind the four windows, on the outside I have a plane with a background image to get a nice view from the camera....
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How to use only direct light?
I want to create a viewshed analysis with Blender. Something like this:
I tried it using light in Blender Render and Cycles but I can't get it to work due to the light fall off. I have already set ...
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How do I make a laser beam in Blender? [duplicate]
How do I achieve a physically accurate laser beam within Blender?
This is what I want to achieve:
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Change 3d view representation of lamps
I am trying to create a more user friendly viewport by changing the representations of cameras and lamps:
Usual viewport with camera and spotlight:
A mockup of what I'm trying to achive:
For the ...
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White line on my texture?
I made 3D scan with photogrametry software. I imported them in blender, I put light and I animate them with shapekeys. The problem is that for some imported scanned object, I can see a white line of ...
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How to distribute light equally on a surface?
I have the following setup:
The black rectangle is my light source, the gray panel is the rendered panel.
How can I distribute the light in an equal mode on the panel?
I'm using Cycles in Blender 2....
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Internal Engine Blue tint?
I've been rendering a project for about 2 1/2 weeks for now... It's a 600 frame project and this issue started around frame 400. I keep getting these light streaks around my light sources... this is ...
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How to get transparent iridescence using Cycles?
I've succeeded getting iridescent with this Cycles node setup:
Physical iridescence in Cycles?
This did the job, however I need a transparent/clear iridescence like this
So I tried plugging the ...
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How do I make a luminescent gas cloud?
How can I make a luminescent gas cloud, similar to the one shown in the picture below (labeled "Trapped Atoms")? Thank you.
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Unknown Object in my rendering [duplicate]
In my very first rendering I have an unknown object in my rendering image. its not found on any layer and I cant finde any unknown axis or objects on my rendered layers. Its a white circle behind a ...
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illustrating transparent tunnel while embodying solid front
I'm trying to create a scene which consists of one huge block which is seen from really close such that no edges are visible. The inner life of the block should consist of various tunnels carved into ...
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Setup blender cycles so that it shows svg images as they would normally look
I have created an svg image in inkscape. In blender (cycles) I've imported the svg image but the colors are not ok:
How do you setup blender cycles so that it renders the imported svg the same as in ...
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Why the texture is not glowing
I have created a tail light. With the material and texture i have setup.
What is missing in the nodes. Im not getting glow from the emission nodes. I have increase the strength of the emission but ...
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Amplify shadows in scene
I would like to easily amplify all the shadows on the stage, but not increase the lamp's power. Is there a way to do it?
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Why are solid objects with refraction node so dark?
Ok Ive discovered refraction nodes trying to create something like the iOS blur effect - meaning a white blur.
This has worked somewhat with 2d objects, but no matter that the node has the color ...
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Mirror reflections
The problem is i can't find a way to make mirror reflections look good, there are always some kind of distortions that makes render looks odd. Is there any way to improve this? (Sorry for my English)
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How to get a correct natural illuminance while preserving the physics correctness of the lights
I read Cycles sun is physically correct (radiant flux at sea-level is 1050 W/m² according to this source).
With a clear sky luminous efficacy of 100 lm/W, this should, with the support of a World ...
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I can't see lamps or selection outlines or anything “orange” in 3D view anymore
I am very new to Blender and I have no idea what I could have done to cause something like this. I remember messing with the CPU and GPU rendering options. I tried downloading other files from Blender ...
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Light ray material not working as expected?
Ok I was just following this set up trying to fake a light ray using a mesh and emissive feeding into the volume of a material - in cycles. Using this method, I don't get any emission even sticking a ...
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How can i create the same smoke and light effects as in this Bob Ross canvas ? (see image)
For my first big project, i plan to made a 3D version of "Campfire", a painting by Bob Ross.
The project is progressing in a good way, but i still can't figure out how to recreate the "smoke" that we ...
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Lights difference
i am working on this scene as shown in the attached picture, after i rendered it the colors became darker than what it appears in Blender, when i opened it on photoshop to give it a little brightness, ...
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Light / Mesh inconsistency in one area - Cycles
I'm trying to understand what's wrong with the lights in my scene.
I've made some kind of sci-fi corridor, inspired by the interior of an aircraft cabin.
The main mesh is first mirrored and then ...
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Is there a way to 'drive' lamps, similar to how you can 'drive' and control a camera in first person?
In particular, I find the first person perspective and use of WASD very intuitive for when I'm positioning my camera in the scene.
I would like to know if there's a way to control lamps that same way ...
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How would you go about making a polarizing camera filter in Cycles?
I know that since Cycles is not a spectral raytracer, it cannot simulate dispersion and other wave properties like polarization. How could you fake a controllable polarizing filter that can be ...
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The most non light reflective surface
I am developing a moonbase and I am looking for dramatic contrast in the light. Inside the base, I want rooms that are normally lit with a door frame and the next room absolute dark.
What surface ...
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The light is being reflected inside the bulb.How to fix it?
I can't seem to find a solution for this problem
Is there any possible fix without affecting how the glass look like?
File:
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Lighting appearing and dissapearing?
i made a FullDome Animation with a Fisheye Camera going throught a scaled cube, with some elements around the camera (pictures in some kind of frames).
You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/...
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No light or transparency through glass and water objects using various transparent materials
I'm trying to render an image that has a wall of windows through which sun should be reflecting into an environment, and a pool with a glass wall facing that wall of windows. At the moment I'm going ...
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Calculate normals for non-manifold mesh
I'm currently playing around with unity and tried to create a room in blender and import it to unity. The room is a non-manifold mesh (on purpose) - because nobody is going to see that room from the ...
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Spotlight Texture
I'm quite new to blender cycles and wanted to create a game using Armory3D in blender 2.79 which supports cycles. I started out by creating a character and wanted to add a flashlight that has some ...
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Problem with lighting
I have a problem with the lamps. When I first create them, it all goes fine. But at some point of making them, or when I deselect them and work in other stuff, they get lost in the viewport. Only ...
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How do I create a material that is only visible under one specific light?
I would like to know how to create a material that is invisible unless it is exposed to one specific light source, like invisible ink.
