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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How can I change the number of Samples in Blender Render in 2.70?
How can I change the number of Samples in Blender Render in 2.70? I've looked everywhere in the UI, the internet and the manual and can't find it anywhere. This page in the manual makes it look like ...
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Blender is eating GB's of HD space when rendering
Blender is eating GB's of HD space when rendering.
Its uses up around 5GB for a few hundred frames of animation and doesn't release it after its finished.
I gather this may have been because I had ...
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View extents (scale to fit render window)
I'm trying to build an automatic renderer using Python, loading lots of OBJ files one-by-one and rendering the results.
I can load the files no problem, but because they are different sizes, I need ...
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Light-bulb Filaments: Brightness and Internal Reflections in Cycles
I'm working on making an "Edison bulb" for part of a photo-realistic scene.
The filament is composed of extrusions of a very small cylinder (if that's a poor method, please correct me; I'm very new ...
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Textures won't show up when I render an animation
I have a problem with Blender and its animation process, I want to do an animation and to do that I rendered all frames of my project. Textures on all of my frames are visible but when I do the render ...
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How to make a Dithering effect in blender?
How to make a dithering effect in blender?
Something like this:
By the nature of the render engine, it does produce some kind of dithering, but How to get more of it? Is there a way to do that?
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Render a wireframe with equal thickness in Cycles?
Is there a way to make a render with freestyle in cycles and use it as a wireframe?
No matter what technique I use, blender always gives me a stretched wireframe. And by that I mean the wireframe is ...
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Indirect lighting casting "shadows" where it should not
I have the windows on the house mesh shown in this image set up to emit indirect light (material emit: 1.00, World Indirect Lighting Factor 5.00, Bounces 4) and it's almost fine, except the fact that ...
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Casting shadows for transparent textured material
Blend file here
I have two concentric cubes, both UV-textured, and sharing a material. The outer cube has a texture that is partially transparent.
When I render the scene, the inner cube acts as if ...
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What techniques have been used to repeat geometry or other detail to the infinite horizon?
When I composed my first hopping cube video
I would have liked to have the camera pitch up enough to show the horizon, except I didn't have enough geometry to extend the cobblestone street and the ...
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How to set a custom 4x4 projection matrix in Blender
I have seen some questions to this topic but all of them are not satisfactory for my problem.
Is it possible to set a custom 4x4 projection matrix in Python to use for rendering in Blender? I'm not ...
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Active camera have a short view distance,how do I increase it? [duplicate]
For some reason when I render or turn into active camera mode the mesh obj disappear as I move farther. I need help on how to increase that view range.
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transparent (test) grid showing up when rendering?
When I'm rendering, I've noticed that there is the transparent grid, even with the user's perspective filled with non-empty texture.
How can I get rid of that?
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How to set color_mode to RGBA using script?
I am trying to set my render to be alpha. i have the following code
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Why are some items not showing up in my rendered animation?
I'm trying to make some graphics for a title sequence which involves some 'T's falling down. However when I render the animation the 'T's don't show up and I can't figure out why, can anybody help?
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How do I get a cycles render that is similar to the default OpenGL viewport render?
I want the whites to be "white" and not grey, and the shadows to not be so dark. Is this just a matter of setting up appropriate lightning? Or is there a shortcut to getting the viewport results (but ...
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Background not appearing when rendering
I'm trying to add a sky to my scene but it won't appear in the render. I've tried:
Adding a sky using the sky and atmosphere options when creating a sun lamp
Adding a sky by going to the world panel ...
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No CUDA option in repository version of Blender
I know there are a lot of threads concerning CUDA and GPU-rendering in Blender, but I haven't figured out yet why my installed Blender(2.70) from the repository offers no choice of the rendering-...
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Blender Cycles Render shows old image [duplicate]
I have a file that I have made a significant amount of changes to. When I try to render it now, it shows an old image from a few weeks ago that I rendered and no file is saved. Does this sound ...
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Render subsection, produce full resolution image
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In an animation, text scrolls horizontally across the screen (from left to right), stopping on the far right. For example:
The background is transparent and no other objects are in the ...
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How Do You Start Animation At A Specific Frame? [duplicate]
For example things might happen in an animation for a few seconds like a flag starting to wave etc. etc. that you don't want anyone to see but you want recording to start 5 seconds into the animation ...
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How Do You Select Only Part Of a Timeline To Be Rendered?
Let's say I only want a section of the timeline to be rendered, and I want the final output to be in RAW AVI format. How would you do that? Thanks guys!
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How to reduce the output video size?
How can I make video output smaller, or what would be a better codec to use? Currently 31 seconds of video is 127MB and at that rate, videos longer than a few minutes would be impractical because I'd ...
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How do I render specific render layers using python?
Does anybody know how to choose one or more from multiple defined render layers by name from command line or from the blender python console? To disable all render layers except the ones specified.
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What will speed up renders more effectively?- more cores or higher clock speed? [closed]
I am contemplating between the AMD FX6300 and AMD FX4350, the former being 6-core@3.5GHz and the latter being 4-core@4.2GHz
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-FX-Series%20FX-4350.html
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how to take images with multiple cameras with Script?
To be clear i want a script, which produces what i am describing below.
I want to iterate through all the cameras in my scene where each one renderes an image. I can do this manually by rendering with ...
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Cycles render stops halfway through render [closed]
I'm trying to render an object using Cycles render. My object is simple but it won't finish rendering this object. I downloaded a couple of shared models, much more complex, and they render fine. I've ...
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Why does my final render image have white particles all over the lighting area? [duplicate]
How can I get rid of those little white dots? I am using Blender 2.70a.
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How can I animate the Restrict Visibility property of an object?
I've been trying to create an animation where an object blinks on and off.
For example, I have a Cube and I set a keyframe on it's Restrict Visibility icon (the "eye" icon) with ...
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How to improve this rendering so it looks more like the target image? (Disaster) [closed]
I'm trying to replicate the following image using Blender:
the image http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/62862049/Screenshots/03k.png
For this, I've used MakeHuman to generate a similar-looking human,...
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reflecting direct light on glossy surface in Cycles
Working in Cycles.
Say I have a "disco ball" with a glossy shader. I'm pointing a spot light to it, and I'm trying to have the reflections of that light illuminate the diffuse material on the walls ...
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Command line error [closed]
I'm trying to run Blender from the command line but I'm getting the following results. Obviously, it didn't render. It worked for me with Blender 2.68, but quit as soon as I put 2.69 on the computer. ...
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Is there a line render engine for Blender?
I am looking for a render engine capable of rendering vectors, i.e. vertices, edges, curves, etc -- objects that have no volume & no faces.
I'd also like the render engine to be free.
Below is ...
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How can I easily animate cutaway views on multiple objects?
I'm trying to create animated cutaway views on multiple objects in my scene. For example, in my car model, the seats and other interior objects are separate objects.
This question talks about using ...
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Blender won't display texture, even in UV editor, Using a PNG (screen shot included)
I have this scene where I modeled a tank for Unity, it is two objects, a top and a body. I unwrapped them in blender, made textures in zbrush, Now I want to make sure the seams look alright in blender ...
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What are some 3rd party rendering engines available for Blender?
What are some 3rd party rendering engines available for Blender? I am using the internal blender render and I keep hearing in tutorials (blenderguru) that it is better to use an external render engine....
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how do I create a sprite with hard (aliased) edges, but still be antialiased inside?
This question came up in the irc channel yesterday. The fellow had a model he was turning into a sprite for a 2D game. He wanted it to be aliased inside, but have a hard (aliased) edge.
Getting ...
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Ideal camera settings to approximate human eye?
As far as things such as Focal Length, Sensor Size, etc., what are the ideal camera settings in blender that most closely approximate the human eye? Right now, everything in my scene seems like it is ...
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How to create single-pixel wide edges? [duplicate]
When using the Edge option on the renderer, it creates several-pixels wide borders.
on blender http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/62862049/Screenshots/01k.png
When creating pixel arts, though, it ...
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How can I have a custom projection matrix? [duplicate]
I want to use a different style of projection, to achieve this effect:
effect http://www.boacompra.com/uoljogos/images/screenshot/tibia/shot10.jpg
I know how to create a projection matrix for it, ...
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data formatting of Z-buffer [closed]
I am currently trying to generate synthetic depth images using blender. I understand that current the z buffer can be output using the composition nodes into OpenEXR and I have successfully done that. ...
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How to do multi-pass rendering on customised shaders? [closed]
I'm using customised shader to achieve a specific aspect. I'm confused by the fact it is dealt with by the game engine, not the rendering engine (??), but my actual question is: how do I do multi-pass ...
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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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Parts of mesh appear dark in 3d view and in render [duplicate]
I have an issue with a part of my model. It looks weird in object mode as well as in a render. Please look at the attached screencaps.
I checked and all the geometry in and around this problem have ...
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Black Images when rendering: image editor does not work [closed]
My rendered 3D model is correct, light and camera are on and it displays nicely in the rendering mode in 3D view.
However, when I hit the render button the rendered image is black. Here is a ...
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How to exclude hair particles from freestyle render?
Is there a way to prevent freestyle from rendering lines on hair particles?
I still want to render lines on the mesh which has the particle system.
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Objects showing through other objects in the BGE?
I am having trouble with a rig I imported from MakeHuman. When I run the Embedded Player or the Standalone Player my character's facial features come through the mesh.
They are positioned properly, ...
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How can I remove a reflection onto an object but keep the shadow?
I tried isolating the two objects via layers, but that removes the shadows as well:
When I don't isolate, I get these little single-pixel reflections on the image material for the background object:
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Black artifacts in some rendered images of a text [duplicate]
I'm a complete newbie and was wondering if I had set up something wrong.
I used the 20th Century fox blend and successfully rendered 600 jpg images. Looking good, except that about 30% images have a ...
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What is multiple importance sample option
What is multiple importance sample option.
And the main question is Can It be simulated via OSL shader or in particular glossy shader?
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