Questions tagged [light]
Questions about light, lamps, lighting and lighting issues.
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How do I make the render lighting look like the materials preview lighting?
Before I put in "studio lighting" (I followed this simple studio lighting tutorial, with 1250W area lighting from top, left, right) the metal texture looked quite good, however, once rendered in ...
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How can I get shader node values based on object angle?
I'm trying to automatically change a blackbody's value based on a sunlamp's directional angle.
When the sunlamp shines horizontal, I would like to have a minimum value represented in the shader ...
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Grainy lights in Blender Cycles
I have this night scene and it's pretty clear that something is not right. The lights are strange, like muffled, making everything grainy. Does anyone have an idea that can fix this?
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Correcting perspective distortion for an angeld projector (Keystone effect)
My goal is to create a realistic reproduction of a projector mounted on the ceiling. So far I can reproduce a projector that is projecting straight. But I cannot wrap my head around how to correct ...
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Light emitting object
Is there any way to replicate the image in eevee? I have tried the emission node or even placing some hidden lights but I just can't get the light to behave how I want it to. On cycles it looks ...
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Any way or workaround to hide the light gizmo without removing emission?
So there's this artifact of sorts that's just that extremely bright spotlamp gizmo, is there any way I can hide or dampen that? Would volumetrics work or make it worse?
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Removing reflection/shade
How should I remove the shade from that part of object?I've connected 2 edges, and that's how I got that part, but the shade annoys me, and I want it to delete. How can I do that?
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Problems with compositing and Shading settings
There is a problem setting up the shadow of my CGI model that I want to add to the camera image on the compositing screen. I can’t intervene in the shadows.
In the tutorial I watched (https://youtu.be/...
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How to make an object emit light that also iluminates other objects? [duplicate]
I have multiple problems. I wan the wing to emit light. But it doesn't iluminate the body at all. Also is there a way to make the colours visable when it emits light (or only make the parts that aren'...
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Denoising in Blender Internal? (2.79)
Is there a way to apply denoising in the Internal render with Ambient Occlusion active?
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Darken a shadow on a shadow catcher without changing the light on the object casting it? (Blender Cycles 2.81)
I am making a very short video in which a miniature dalek model (https://www.blendswap.com/blend/6326) goes around my table, and I made a shadow catcher plane, and I wanted to make the shadow brighter ...
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Make objects reflect from separate view layer 2.8
My last post of this was marked as a duplicate for glass shaders. I want to make explicitly clear, I am NOT asking for glass shaders.
I'm doing a bit of archviz for a buddy's bathroom remodel, and I ...
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Eevee bloom effect covers my texture as camera gets further away from the object
I have a star mesh that has a Texture on it for the mouth, which is just a black curve for a smile. The star's material has a translucent shader and the star has a light inside it, creating a glow ...
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Why does it look like dead pixels when I turn on light scene
I use a laptop no graphics card specifically the Asus Vivobook MA203
2.It only happens when I turn on light scene
It might be caused by bad internet
The blender version is the 64 bit windows version 2....
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How to preview an animation without rendering?
The object scene presents a city, the sun, buildings with the particle modifier to create floating building debris, and a tracking shot of a video camera passing through the city.
Now, is it possible ...
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Blender rendering black screen when light out of interior
I'm pretty new to blender and for starting wanted to create my room. I just wanted to make render in middle of work to see how is it look like without noise and all that laggy stuff.
I started it and ...
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Is it possible to get this glossy shiny texture?
I'm still learning to use blender 2.8 during my internship. My supervisor have give me a task to make intro video and ask me to get this kind of texture. I have follow many tutorial on youtube but I ...
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What is the meaning of the strength of the sun lamp?
all other lamp types in blender uses a physical unit to define strength but the sun lamp has a unit less strength value.So what is the unit of the sun lamp strength if it has or if it is relative what ...
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Make mesh faces emit volumetric light?
So, I've essentially got a character with a part of their body that emits light. I've created an emission map and hooked it into the principled BSDF's emission option. In a totally dark scene, these ...
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coffee cup tutorial has too strong reflections
I've seen this question asked before but the answers don't solve the issue. I'm doing a blender tutorial by Blender Guru involving a coffee cup and donut. Part 4, Level 3: Realistic Liquid - Blender ...
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Shadows settings not showing on my light
So I'm watching Blender Guru on the donut stuff on Blender 2.8 and he clicks on his light but my settings aren't the same as his.
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Cycles render preview light different than final render
In the viewport the lights of the lamp look a lot brighter (3 lights in it, each about 2000w)
The only other emitters are the hdri on very low and the buildings (also very low).
all objects are ...
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How to calculate illuminated surface area (not whole) of a mesh that has light shining on it?
I want to represent a 3D mesh object which is cylindrical and has pores of different sizes on/in it. One or more lamps are shining on it. What I want to find out is the surface area that is ...
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Jagged black parts of mesh only at certain angles
I'm not sure how to deal with this issue I'm facing. I'm quite new but I've researched this issue and I've tried deleting doubles (merge by distance) and I've tried to recalculate normals but none of ...
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Volumetric light without fog
I'm using blender 2.8.
I was wondering is there any way to create volumetric light without fog (or just a little bit) ? There are some tutorials on Youtube but almost all of them are creating ...
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Alpha Emission in Cycles
it's my first time posting :)
I have a question about increasing the brightness emission of an alpha channel using the cycles renderer.
I have tried different nodes (including the math node) to ...
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IES lights in Blender 2.82
Since Blender 2.8 there is the built-in feature to use IES-files for realistic lighting. In 2.80 you could just select a point light source, click on "Use Nodes" and add an IES-texture node in the ...
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How can I light an object for a turntable animation?
I need to make a turntable animation for an object, but I am not sure how to light it to get a consistent light all around? What is the best way to approach this?
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Lamp energy in BGE does not get higher than 10!
Using Blender 2.69. Trying to control lamp strength by setting "own.energy += 1;" in controller script and printing own.energy to console. It works insofar as I can see the lamp changing strength in ...
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Blender texturing effects
I would like to create in blender of animations light on the walls of a cube of rubik, for example illuminate a cube of one of the many faces at the time of a rotation. And I would like to use this ...
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Shadow Incorrect at Bottom of Edge
In the images below, I have a cube that is sticking up about two thirds through a plane. But, despite the fact that the cube is not hovering over the plane, the shadow seems to indicate otherwise. How ...
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How to adjust lights so there is no difference of brightness in the original image and rendered image plane?
https://youtu.be/K3lfNXAZblA?t=1277
I am trying to follow this tutorial but feature of adding scene in video editor is removed in latest blender version.
So now it very difficult to make sure there ...
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Light in Viewport [duplicate]
I am using Blender 2.82 and while viewing a tutorial, I deleted the light in my viewport. When I tried to re-add the light, I couldn't get the standard light back, so my work does not match the ...
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Chrome Reflections On Flat Surfaces
I've set up my scene, and both objects have the exact same material applied to them. I understand that the monkey object has lots of curves therefor the light and world scene is bouncing lights and ...
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How can I get a tinted highlight without tinting the entire piece?
I want to give my highlights a little more color, such as in this image:
But using an environment map gives me pretty flat colors:
Is there a way to get this greater hue range, especially if I can ...
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Is it possible to have a node value correspond to how much light is hitting that pixel? [duplicate]
The puzzle I'm facing comes from when I was participating in Nodevember, so although I can think of ways to manage this by using baked image sequences or sync'ing up a mask to roughly match the ...
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How to create a superior mirage in blender
I'd like to create a Superior Mirage.
Where by looking at object A, i can see object B, which is hidden behind it, as a reflection above A.
What Wikipedia says about it.
Other images from Google.
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blender “Align selected light to view”? Similar to Maya
Blender 2.82 Is there an equivelent to "Align selected light to view"?
Similar to how Maya allows to look through a light to focus on the object.
If not, what are the steps to to this?
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Light source automatically fitting to object
I want to setup a light source that is automatically fitting to the loaded object. Either by a script or by maybe setting it in a way that it works great for every object that might get loaded (maybe ...
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I want to download new update of Blender but I don't want to lose my projects. What is the procedure?
Title says it all. I want to download new update of Blender but I don't want to lose my projects.
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How to change the shape of a spotlight in Eevee? [duplicate]
I am trying to make a spotlight project a square onto the wall in Eevee, but I can't find an easy way to do it. Right now I kinda have a jimmy-rig where I made a cube and put a square-shaped hole in ...
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Scene color/contrast changes based on camera perspective
I have a multi-camera setup for viewing the scene at different perspectives. The top perspective view looks correct but my straight on view looks washed out without changing any of the settings. The ...
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Why can't I see the light source directly?
I don't understand why I don't see the direct light from light sources. Is there an option to show it? I can't find.
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Bloom doesn't show in the render but it is visible in the viewport, why?
The bloom from the plane can be seen here in the viewport
But after it is rendered, it disappears. I'm using Eevee and Blender 2.82
Here is the .Blend file
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Set light color from python script
I would like to specify the color of a light that I add using a python script launched from the command line:
blender --python script.py
The script:
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Text and mesh turning black after rendering but not in render view mode
When I look at my scene in render view mode everything is ok, but when I actually render it it all turns black. I've tried everything, i believe it's something in the render settings itself, since it'...
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How to hide light shape source through transparent window in Cycles?
Shape of area light becomes visible through the transparent window in Blender Cycles.
I would like to keep the lighting effects, but hide the source shape.
On 1st screen: we can see the steam and ...
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Object in Cycles is getting illuminated but stays black in Eevee
I am working on a space scene using a 3D model of a starbase that I downloaded online. There's a sun in the scene that illuminates the starbase. The starbase gets illuminated in Cycles, but when I ...
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Transparency removes glow effect
Hi I am trying to render my Picture with glow on a transparent Background. I dont get why it does not work. If i set up any background the glow effects works, if i make the Background transparent it ...
