Questions tagged [rendering]
The action of turning a scene into an end product such as an image or movie. If your question is specific to one render engine, please use its respective tag (cycles, eevee, blender-internal, etc).
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Sky texture changes settings when I render
In Blender 4.2, using a sky texture, the settings for sun rotation and height keep resetting on their own when I try to render. This began when setting this lighting as default startup file. I reset ...
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How should I light this scene? [closed]
I am trying to recreate the lighting in this photo in my render. Tried a few different methods, but I haven't been able to capture the natural feeling this photo has. Any tips would be appreciated.
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How to make a seamless curved backdrop? [duplicate]
How do I make a seamless curved backdrop to be used for product placement?
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How to batch render with UI open for the blend files
i have a few blender files which use drivers in the video sequencer, the drivers only update when rendering from the UI, any script or batch render command which doesnt open the UI fails to update the ...
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Anyone know how to render cycles animations faster? [duplicate]
So i've been using blender for a couple months now and i'm starting to get into using cycles for my renders. As fun as it is, it's taking a long time to render and I was hoping someone could help me ...
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Render viewport image different from final render image
New to Blender. But I plan on making a scientific journal cover. I tried to create a test image following videos of YouTube but I keep getting a final rendered image that is very different from the ...
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lines on Blenderkit materials
I've tried adding many different metal materials from Blenderkit to this part, and they all end up with a darker area that looks like a shadow, but stays in the same place no matter where the light is....
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Visibility viewports\renders togglable option for specific collection of animations
I have a set of POV hand animations (4, to be precise). One animation is called unsheathe, wich is basic unsheathing animation. I also have Sword object with sword armature (a single bone). So i've ...
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Can't get see-through material for eyes to work
I'm trying to make eyes for my character. I'm working in EEVEE. I've turned on Screen Space Reflections in material settings and its other location, checked the refractions box, switched from opaque ...
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Blender 4.2: How to Enable CPU-Only Rendering in Cycles?
I'm running Blender 4.2 on my desktop without issues, but I've encountered a major problem: it seems Blender 4.2 no longer supports CPU-only rendering in Cycles, which is critical for my render farm. ...
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Blender background plane color banding issue
I’m rendering a turntable and getting pretty nasty banding on the background plane. Does anyone know how to fix this? I found an old video on YouTube that suggested changing the color depth to 16-bit ...
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Rendering Imperfections
A newbie question: I'm rendering a very simple scene that imitates a coordinate system. The axes are Grease Pencil line art attached to a cube with 4 vertices and then for each XY/YZ/XZ I created a ...
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Missing "Rendered" Viewport Shading option? [duplicate]
The Rendered Viewport Shading options is missing. There are only three options to choose from. I am doing a Blender tutorial and want to see the render, but the icon to do that is not there. Can ...
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Blender crashes as soon as I switch the Render Engine from EEVEE to Cycles [closed]
No matter the complexity of the project, whenever I switch from EEVEE to Cycles in Rendering Viewport shading (even before actually rendering an image from the camera) the program crashes.
Sometimes ...
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Motion Blur makes smoke significatively more opaque
I have a smoke simulation already baked. When I try to render the image without motion blur, it renders normally, but when I enable motion blur, the whole scene turn into smoke.
I tried everything, ...
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How can I automatically save my renders with incremental filenames in Blender?
I’m working on a project where I’d like to keep track of my renders by saving them with filenames like 000.jpg, 001.jpg, and so ...
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EXR Format and HDR for Post-Processing - Does rendering to EXR preserve information beyond the visible range for post-processing?
Does rendering to EXR preserve information beyond the visible range for post-processing?
I’m planning to render my scene to an EXR file in Blender with a higher bit depth, and I’m wondering if that ...
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Saving Render Result in Blender File - How can I save the Render Result within a Blender file to prevent it from disappearing after reopening?
How can I save the Render Result within a Blender file to prevent it from disappearing after reopening?
Every time I render an image in Blender, the Render Result ...
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CoreTemp peak-maximum while rendering? [closed]
I builded my new rendering PC from the scratch.
Never done stuff like that before.
So i hope i did everything right. At least it works.
Of cause i render with GPU and unchecked CPU where ever i can.
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Render strategy for heavy scenes?
So I created a very large scene and was hoping I could get it to render by strategizing how to turn certain objects off in the render when they are too far away to be of consequence or obscured (like ...
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what's the best way to render a ambient occlusion pass?
what's the best way to render a Ambient Occlusion pass without a backdrop so the background will be white instead of transparent?
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Saving render result directly to python object without saving on disk
I want to copy render result from memory to python object like list or later on numpy.
(without saving on disk)
After rendering
bpy.ops.render.render()
A new ...
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How do I render light separately?
I have the following animation: a surface is illuminated in Cylces by a moving green light. An HDRI is also active.
I thought about this process:
Render: render the animation without the green light
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Lightleaks since normal maps? Contact shadow option gone?
I was working on a scene, and everything was going great until I decided to add some normals to my materials. Ever since then, I've noticed light leaking near almost every corner. I'm using Eevee, but ...
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How render proper Linear Rec.709 Gamma 2.4?
I have a task to render out PNG 16 bit in Linear Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 and can`t figure out if I do it in proper way. Is it enough to set view transform to Raw and Gamma 2.4 in color management panel? Or ...
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Can't see parts of a wall when viewed through a glass panel (shower cabin) from a top view angle
I would like to ask for help with an issue I'm having regarding the reflections / refraction of a glass material for Cycles (Blender 4.0.2).
The glass material is assigned to 2 shower cabin glass ...
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How should I unwrap this table leg?
I'm somewhat new to Blender, and am trying to render a table. I've run into issues with this table leg's texturing. I can't seem to unwrap it properly. I exported the table design from Fusion 360, so ...
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Blender render is less glossy than the viewport image
Basically, my render doesn't match the viewport image. Specifically, the most outer metal plate face that's facing the camera is significantly darker than the viewport image.
Things I checked:
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Shading issues along seam in 4.1 but not 3.6
I recently decided to make the move to 4.1 and imported a mesh that was created in 3.6 over to 4.1. In 3.6, it doesn't have any shading issues at all, but in 4.1, there's some really odd visuals ...
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exporting the file [duplicate]
I made a glowing pipe mesh in this its looking like light is flowing I just animate mapping and change its rotation of z axis but now when I am exporting in gltf material is not coming along with the ...
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Rendering really heavy meshes
I'm a beginner trying to create a render of a scene using about a dozen obj photogrammetry tiles that are extremely heavy. My blend file is about 7gb at the moment.
Every time I try to load them all ...
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The Rendered display method in sequencer doesn't render scene strips
The sequencer doesn't render scene strips in an animation if the display method is set to Rendered.
It previews scene strips and can render an image in this mode, but not animation.
This happens even ...
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Create a render queue
I am trying to create a render queue, using the "complete_render" handler to start a new render job. I am using "bpy.ops.render.render("INVOKE_DEFAULT")". The problems is ...
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Renderer suddenly stopped working
System:
13th gen i5 intel
7900 xt 20gb vram
windows 11
ram 32 ddr5
Blender 4.1
I am using Cycles, scene is 1.8gb
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Changing to CPU, both, only GPU switching render devices
Changing samples
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How to set a constant color to an object
I am trying to make an object that renders in a constant solid color, independent on lighting or shadows. I tried setting the object surface as Emission with strenght=1. The result depends on blender ...
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How to Show Colours
I'm very new to Blender.
I purchased a Rocket Launcher from Render Hub. M202 RL
It came with Blender 4.1 file. I can load it in but I don't have a clue how to show the Colours or Textures or Whatever ...
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How to batch render multiple cameras? [duplicate]
I have a scene with 4 cameras in it, each with distinct settings. I want to render 4 images, one for each camera. I see this answer that suggests using ...
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How to get rid of weird curve with glass
I've had this issue before where the problem turned out to be that I was using a plane with no thickness as the glass. This time, however, the plane with no thickness looked fine and now I've added a ...
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How to bake material with image to one texture properly?
I made a knight model. I placed a png image of a lion on the shield. Other materials are just colors. I need to bake all the materials into one texture for the game engine. But when I did that, the ...
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my cube turns completely black when i enter viewport shading
when I enter the viewport shading window all the objects in my scene turn completely black. I have tried moving the light, repositioning the light, reloading the file, editing the shadow pool but ...
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Some objects in scene render without materials
I have a problem I have not come across before. In my viewport all of my objects appear with their materials and textures, however when I test render the scene, some of the objects render without ...
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Any Idea about hudge blocks in Cycles rendering
I imported an FBX Revit model and started to modify it a little bit. I added some textures, etc. In the first days the render was ok. today after some modifications is not.
Do you have any idea why ...
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emulate lighting from solid mode in high-res render in Blender 4.2
is there a way to emulate the lighting from solid mode for a proper high-res rendering? I use Blender (4.2.0) to render SfM's for research and I like how surface morphology displays in solid mode, but ...
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Is it possible to use GPU acceleration with an Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 155H laptop?
According to Intel documentation, this processor has an Intel® Arc™ graphics GPU. Intel seems to indicate that Arc graphics is able to render cycles. However so far I have not been able to get any ...
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Is there a way to tell how many samples Blender used after rendering?
When using a threashold value (and some high enough value for the samples), Blender will make the decision for you when to stop rendering to optimize render times. So far, so good.
My question is:
I'm ...
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Eevee Toon Shader Shadows Looking Jagged and Choppy, everything is set to shade smooth
I've tried every other solution on stack exchange but can't find much luck. Sometimes my toon shaders will have this choppy, angular look that isn't ideal. Here is what things look like rendered:
But ...
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Should I downgrade blender if my graphics card is unsupported?
I have a laptop with an AMD firepro graphics card, when I want to render with my graphics card on blender it tells me I can't because I need to have Radeon driver 21.q4 version and above, the recent ...
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EEVEE the object is black
I am using a laptop ASUS Vivobook S 15 with the following characteristics:
CPU - Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E78100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) CPU
3.42 GHz;
Memory - 16 GB;
GPU - Snapdragon(R) X Elite - ...
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I cant see anything when i render my image
I'm a complete beginner to blender and I follow tutorials on YouTube so I don't understand what to do. I can't see anything, no light, no object (even though they're all there) just a shadow whenever ...
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Do render slots contain more information like samples used?
I was hoping the render window would have Render: Samples information as well as other render settings I used so I can keep have it for future reference, but I can't seem to locate it.
In the render ...
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