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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Can Blender render pngs with the background transparent?
I would like to render an animation as a series of .png images with transparent backgrounds for use in a video. Is this possible?
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Render with a wider dynamic range in cycles to produce photorealistic looking images
To get images that seem more photorealistic, not only a much wider Dynamic Range is needed, but also having the color information desaturate towards white as it would happen in an overexposed ...
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How can I pause a render in progress and then resume it at a later time?
I would like to pause a render that I have started, with the intention of resuming it at a later time (but during the same Blender session). How can I do this?
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Enabling GPU rendering for Cycles?
I want to enable GPU rendering, but there is no option in User Preferences > System:
Why is this? How can I get cycles to render using my GPU?
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How is Cycles different from Blender Internal?
How does Cycles work and how is it different from Blender Internal?
Which is better?
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How to avoid noisy renders in Cycles?
I know that this question is a bit old or maybe overdone, but I'm running the latest edition of Blender and when I use the Cycles engine I get really fuzzy results and I can't find a simple, non-...
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Render just part of a final image from Cycles?
I'm using an older Nvidia chip that hates running viewport renders, and I need to check if changes to the materials on a few objects not far from the center of my scene are (I'm rendering a floorplan ...
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Creating a Black Hole in Blender
I recently saw the film Interstellar and it was fantastic! The effects blew me away and it got me in the mood to try and re create the black hole, however I haven't been able to find any information ...
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How do I clear the render border?
In the 3d viewport I am using a border region to only render things inside the selected region. I did this with CtrlB. I cannot get rid of the region. How can I make the border disappear?
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How can I make sharp geometric 3d models look more realistic?
I'm making a scene in Blender with manufactured mechanical and electrical objects - cylinders, metal objects and so forth. I want to make these look real, be fully present with a sense of mass and ...
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Can Blender render animated gifs?
I need to save an animation as an animated GIF.
Can this be done from Blender? cheers.
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How to render an animation as video in Blender?
Yesterday I was working on a simple animation, an animated logo.
Here is an image of the progress:
I already have the animation working and everything is okay with the project, but I can't figure ...
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Why are some faces in my mesh darker?
While rendering a mesh with smooth shading on, I get a dark region/shadow on certain faces.
The effect is more evident when smooth shading is applied to a mesh containing ngons, with the ngons turning ...
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How to make a model cast shadows onto the world texture/background?
In most of my models, I usually end up setting a world background using an HDRI image of some kind or another. This has always been really useful for lighting in general or as a background for my ...
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Iridescence In Cycles?
Is it possible to create an iridescence shader in Cycles?
Specifically for something like DVDs, soap bubbles, engine oil, etc..
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Object not visible in render
I have a model which you can see here (camera perspective).
In the second image, you can see how the render turned out.
I'm at my wit's end trying to figure our why it's not showing up in the render....
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Preview rendering the current view from the viewport?
How can the current viewport view be rendered as a preview?
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How to reduce fireflies in Cycles?
I often use Cycles' built in Glass BSDF shader to achieve realistic refraction effects, but in many cases, it seems that Cycles' glass caustics creates an unfortunately large number of fireflies (...
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How to make a cycles light emisson object invisible to the camera?
In my scene it is required to position the lights close to the main object like this:
How I can make the light source invisible to the camera?
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How do I increase the render distance?
I have created a simple model here
When rendering it the end of it is cut off
How can I get the camera to render a longer distance?
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How to find image coordinates of the rendered vertex?
I have a simple mesh of a cube. I would like to know what are the coordinates of each vertex in the rendered image (i.e. for each 3d vertex I'd like to know it's pixel coordinates). Is there a way ...
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How does EEVEE work?
We all know what Cycles is, at least to a first approximation: Cycles is
a path tracing engine [...] Specifically, cycles is a "backwards" path tracer, which means that it traces light rays ...
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Is there really a way to make a true toon shader material in Cycles?
Is there a way to make a true toon shader material in Cycles?
Here's, in order of importance, what would be ideal to find in such a shader:
Must use Cycles
Must be an actual shader
Must not rely on ...
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What is branched path tracing and how is it useful?
I noticed recently that there is a new option in Cycles for "branched path tracing", can someone explain what this does in easy to understand terms? Should we expect faster render times or less ...
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Cause of black artifacts in render?
I was following this tutorial on creating a watch and noticed that when I rendered the watch, some pieces were messed up.
I'm new to 3D modeling and I've just learned Blender,
I can't explain it well,...
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Does transparency work in eevee
I have been trying to create a transparent lens using the eevee rendering engine in 2.8 but the transparency slider has no effect. Has this feature not been implemented yet? I've looked all over the ...
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How can I render an object with an hdr background?
I have an object with an hdr for the background. What do I do in Cycles to render the background with my object?
How is this different from an ordinary render in Cycles?
The hdr is a big one, 350MB.
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What's the purpose of the EEVEE rendering engine?
Is it an alternative to Cycles, or just for the 3D viewport?
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How to make a holographic reticle shader in cycles
Does anyone have a lead on how to set up a shader in cycles to mimic the behavior of hologhraphic sights in blender, as shown in this image?
I don't want to have to try and figure out exactly how to ...
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What does the simplify AO bounces value do?
I recently discovered that turning on Simplify in the Scene panel, and setting "AO Bounces" to 2, reduced my render times from 30 minutes to 10 minutes. A three times speed improvement! But... I still ...
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Light spectrum dispersion effect in Blender?
I'm trying to achieve the effect where a beam of light sent through a prism or other refractive object, separates out into the light spectrum. (See image below)
This effect is especially useful to ...
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Is there a way to batch render multiple scenes?
I have animations in 4 different scenes in my Blender file that I would like to batch render.
Is there a way to batch render all the scenes, instead of only the scene I am working in?
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How to Construct a Diamond or Other Gemstone Material in Cycles
What would be the material or shaders node set up for a smooth gem in blender cycles engine?
I want a result similar to this image:
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Render not showing UV texture
I have added a texture to a cube in the UV editor and it shows up fine in textured view
But when I render it there is no texture
What have I done wrong?
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Render result is completely blank
A scene I made is not rendering, at all.
This grey screen stays the same and nothing changes.
Here are my settings:
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How to save render?
Every time I render an image and try to save it, it just disappears. How do you exactly save a render? I am using a mac.
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Any Video formats that render with Alpha Channel?
Does anyone know if there are any video formats (besides the HUGE uncompressed avis) that you can render in that maintain the alpha channel? (i.e. for after FX etc.)
I used to use quicktime, but ...
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What is the difference between the displace socket and a bump map?
Aside from the fact that you can control the bump mapping per shader with a bump node, are there any differences between these materials?
As far as I can tell, they are the same. Is the displacement ...
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How do I emit light from inside a object?
I need to know how to make the buttons in my blender project look the same as in this photo. Mine all look pale, even with the emission material. Is there anyway I can get my buttons like this?
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No file output after rendering?
I usually am able to render successfully to the c:\tmp folder, but when I came into work today, I rendered out the image on my work laptop, and everything seems to ...
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Can Cycles renders be done from the command line?
It seems that Cycles is mainly built in the form of Python scripts (as far as I can tell). Is it still possible to use Cycles to render a .blend file from the ...
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3x4 camera matrix from blender camera
In computer vision, the transformation from 3D world coordinates to pixel coordinates is often represented by a 3x4 (3 rows by 4 cols) matrix P as detailed below. Given a camera in Blender, I need ...
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Glow with depth in Blender?
What would be a way to create a glow in Blender. For that purpose I've been always using the compositor. However, that is pixels work, which means it is a 2d work. To make a 3d one, do I have to use ...
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What does the compression setting do to a PNG?
I was most surprised to find that the compression setting in the render settings, made a huge difference in the file size of a png. Is there any image quality degradation with the compression on?
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Why does my object not show up?
This is meant to solve this problem once and for all. What is every reason an object isn't showing up in a render or viewport in when using the cycles render engine?
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What image format encodes the fastest, or at least faster? PNG is too slow
When rendering [in 2.80], I have discovered that video streams save much faster than rendering to PNG files. This is frustrating to me because I have learned that the safety of image frame rendering ...
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Save all render passes to EXR image?
I am having an issue with EXR file export that I did not encounter in previous versions of Blender. I used to be able to render a render layer with all its passes and get all the passes included with ...
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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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What is the difference between Sobol and Correlated Multi-Jitter sampling patterns?
In Cycles we have two options for sampling patterns. The default is Sobol, there is also Correlated Multi-Jitter.
The manual has this to say about sampling patterns:
Pattern
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How do I use Proxies in the VSE correctly?
When I choose a 'Proxy Render Size' in the properties panel of the preview window then it seems that this is all I have to do in order to boost up the performance of the preview display for playing ...
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