Questions tagged [reflection]
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Does fresnel node corresponds to fresnel-equations?
In principle BSDF manual,specular is set to ((ior-1)/(ior+1))^2/0.08 to get realistic result.So does this imply that reflection amount (percentage of incident light) is only determined by ior and ...
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Texturing problem on cylinder
I had to delete a section of this piping and re-build it by bridging the vertices together and filling in the edges as faces.
Then when I turned it onto 'rendered view' I noticed that the metal ...
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Weird reflections on glass bottle render with cycles
If you look at this PNG you notice this "reflection" near the bottom of this bottle. Why is that so hard? Where does it come from? from the bottle itself?
I rendered it a couple of times, I ...
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How to Achieve a Strong Metallic Reflection Presence on a Scattered Material?
I am building a model which a piece of black paper is stamped with a reflective silver foil. This is being built in Blender 2.83, using cycles render. I have tried my best to set up a material for ...
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How to render ground reflections without rendering the ground?
I'd like to create a product shot like the following images for a client:
I'm relatively new to Blender, I don't know that much about render passes.
What I would like to do is render the bottle, with ...
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Material at Viewport Shading some lines seem to appear
I have a problem with my material at Viewport Shading, some lines seem to appear. How can i fix this?
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Reflection color (Blender 2.8)
Where do I find the Blender 2.8x equivalent of the "Mirror reflection color" found in 2.7x (as in picture)?
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My HDRI reflection isnt showing up in the render, blender 2.9
im sure theres something stupid that im missing like in my nodes, i already saw a post on here about this but the answer didnt help me
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removing reflection in plastic for final rendering
My boss wants it completely free of all reflections. I can get them off the top piece and I removed it to work on the power supply and the ethernet box. It is the reflections in the glass I need to ...
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Modify Reflection Color in EEVEE
I'm currently working on a scene with screen space reflections (using light probes) in EEVEE. I would love to change the color of the reflection only (specifically to black&white but ideally with ...
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How to make an object not receive light from world?
I have a project of a character laying on a plane and the world is full of stars. Problem is the colors of the world are reflecting on the character whereas i want him to be free from all reflections. ...
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Is there a way to make different HDRIs affect different objects in the same render?
I know how to make all reflections be one HDRI while everything else is a different HDRI but how could I have one HDRI affect one object's reflection while another HDRI affects a different object's ...
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Why does my bathroom mirror distort so much?
I am trying to make the mirror in this bathroom scene extracted from a video game have proper full reflections, but I can't for the life of me figure what settings to use in the shader. I've tried the ...
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Cannot Get Transparent Object to show up in reflections
I am not sure if this is a limitation in Evee or a setting I am missing.
I am using Blender 2.9.0 on Mac OS X Catalina.
Making a scene (I know, my mom told me not to make a scene) and want to have a ...
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Is There A Way To Make Reflections Act Similar To Cycles In EEVEE?
I have a low-poly glossy character in my scene, and when I render with cycles, each face is sliced into reflective triangles which looks very good.
But, when I try to render the scene in eevee, the ...
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How do I render only the background and the reflections in the plane but not render the actual car? [duplicate]
I am trying to render only the background and the reflections of the car and I don't know how. In the outliner tab layer 1 is the car, layer 2 is the background, and the rest of the layers are various ...
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Can I exclude specific reflections using Eevee?
I made a scene of a tentacle in a body of water. The tentacle is driving a dynamic paint simulation on a plane.
The body of water is split into 2 planes. one smaller one with the simulation applied an ...
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Weird spiky shadows around the edges of my walls
I am new to blender and was trying to model an interior of a room. I used an Irradiance volume around the entire house and an environmental lighting. In the render properties, I have enabled ambient ...
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More pixels rendered, worse screen space reflection result. [EEVEE]
Hello everyone, I'm having this problem: The more pixels being render, the worse screen space reflection outcome, also in contradict, the less pixels being render, the better the reflection.
It's ...
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Object behind transparent wavy foil/glass has dark spots
This is a similar question to How to illuminate the darkness inside glass objects in Cycles? however, the answers there didn't solve my problem.
I have an object that is wrapped in an uneven thin foil ...
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How to remove light bounce / reflection from objects?
Hi there. I'm creating a scene with many images tacked up onto the wall. I use 'Images as Plane' to import these images and add a solidify modifier to give it some thickness. It is rendered on cycles.
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How to get more caustics
i was following Blender gurus most recent tutorial , and was working on a glass plane which had the following node setup
This is exactly what blender guru had shown in the video and is showing ...
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Reflection shifts when trying to make a normal map stronger (cycles)
How to avoid it? I cant apply the normal map correctly
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Rendering a fake mirror
I am trying to work out how to have a fake mirror in my scene.
Character A walks by a mirror on the wall, which should reflect the room and everything in it, except Character A. Instead of Character A,...
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Eevee glass rendering grey
So I'm using a Principled BSDF shader with transmission to 1 in Eevee. I've enabled screen space refraction in the shader and enabled screen space reflections and refractions in the render tab. I've ...
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How do I get proper reflections (Eevee)?
I added my modeled car into an eevee-scene and for some reason it refuses to render. When I try to render a white box appears around the car instead of the reflections. I have tried all the settings ...
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Remove unwanted reflections on glass
I have a problem with my render. As seen in the images below, the floor is reflecting on the glass cube. I'm not sure how to remove it.
And here's what my scene looks like.
How would I go about ...
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Refections on transparent object - renderd view diffrent to render
Hi I'm staggering with a problem. I made PET Bottles with a Principled BSDF Node. The Material looks nice in rendered view but not in the final render. I'm loosing a lot of the light source reflection ...
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How to keep only Reflections and Shadows but object itself invisible
I want to render only:
Object On the white table
Table surface reflections
Object Shadows on table
Emission particles reflections & gloss on table
I want White Table is to disappear totally
It ...
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Pixelated reflections in eevee
I created a glass material using the Principled BSDF node. I have a high resolution hdri set as the world environment texture.
However the reflection in the glass material looks very pixelated.
Does ...
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Blender can't see through glass because reflections are too hard
I have this mesh
When I add glass on top of it I can't see through it when I'm at an angle.
The glass material is an extremely basic one.
How can I make it that the glass acts more naturally?(more ...
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Principled BSDF Glass Issue
I'm going through BlenderGuru's tutorial and he's using Principled BSDF as a glass material and Cycles as the render engine. The cup by itself looks fine, so does the plate, but if you look through ...
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What is causing this reflection on a surface? (Blender Guru coffee cup tutorial)
I am following a beginner tutorial on Blender Guru’s YouTube channel.
I am creating a glass cup with liquid inside, and I am using the Volume Absorption settings on the Material panel in order to ...
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Visible Light Rays in Mirror Reflection
I know this is a very common issue, so I will come out and say that I am already aware that I can turn off the visible light source in its properties so it cannot be seen in a glossy reflection. I do ...
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Excessive refraction at glancing angles with glass and/or fresnel nodes?
Making physically-based glass without weird hacks seems really hard with cycles. Does anybody have any tips they could share with me to solve this issue? I have read every single thread available on ...
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Compositing cg watersplash with water in video footage
I am trying to create an effect where water is frozen in time, resembling the splash of water created by stepping in low water.
My issue is in compositing the borders of my water splash into the water ...
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Using Cycles renderer the reflections look good in viewport but not in in the render, why is this happening?
Im using Cycles renderer and there is no reflection when I render the image
I ve been searching for solutions but I couldnt find any,
Im using Blender 2.83
This is how it looks in the viewport
This ...
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How to make object visible only in refleciton without Cycles
I'm about halfway done with a long project using Blender Render and am trying to have an object be invisible but appear only in a reflective surface. I understand how to do this using Cycles however I'...
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Light source reflection on metallic surface
In the picture, I have a spot light above the bed, but in the reflection, in the mirror, you can see a dot that's NOT what I want, does anyone know how you can get rid of that dot (the mirror is just ...
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I'm getting these weird inaccurate, smeared reflections. What am I doing wrong?
I'm using cyces. The background is an Environmental Texture.
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How to get a smooth reflecting surface?
I tried model this Hiraishin Kunai from Naruto and this shiny blade part keeps bugging me.
How to solve this, please help.
Mesh looks like this.
I tried using only one face for that part like this.
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what happened to my glass reflection?
i am currently following blender guru's beginner tutorial following instructions every step of the way.
as soon as i added the droplet texture at the end of part 5, level 3: condensation, the glass on ...
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Why is light being reflected off of one side?
I'm trying to set up a scene with lighting. But, for some reason, the lights seem to be reflecting off of one side. It does this for both eevee renders and cycles renders. Does anyone know how to fix ...
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Eevee glass not working at certain angles
I'm trying to get glass to look realistic in eevee. I'm getting this weird error when I move the angle of the camera. Any help would be great thanks!
Gif of glass error
https://imgur.com/SYVIvEI
Link ...
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Object reflects environment but not other objects?
I have a Principled BSDF object without roughness that reflects correctly the background texture but doesn't seem to reflect objects close to it. How could I solve this issue?
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Create a mirror to reflect objects for vfx compositing [duplicate]
I would like to create a virtual mirror to compose on top of a real mirror to reflect objects in Blender.
This is how I imagined it in my mind: (The mirror completely reflects the object but leaves ...
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How do I remove the orange reflection on the bottle? (coming from ground) (cycles)
Can you please help me if there is a way to remove this lighter reflection on the bottle. I guess its coming from the ground. I have tried to increase roughness but it didn't worked.
I have no idea ...
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How to exclude one object's reflection from another object? (Cycles)
How do I stop the green man from casting a reflection onto the motorcycle?
