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Image sequence bug?
I've been trying to add an image sequence in the node editor to give my characters animated expressions, but when I change the offset the material turns pink, pls help
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How to billboard game sprites based on camera angle?
So to keep things simple, here is a sphere with a blue and green line going through it for reference:
Here is a sprite sheet with roughly the same angles portraying the 3d sphere:
My question is, ...
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How can I make led light strips effect, in EEVEE or even in Cycles?
I have tried a lot to make such a realistic led light effect, but couldn't do so. Tried making plastic material and placing point lights in it, but that didn't help. Even tried using emission, but ...
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Creating Transparent Object, but Doesn't Reflect from Lighting in Render View?
So I made this transparent water and you can see through it like this, but when I look at the final render it doesn't shine from my light. Only that tiny part of the edge is light blue
If I choose ...
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isolate node on an object in your scene?
I've seen people on other softwares isolate their nodes directly on their objects, in the render viewport, to better work on it.
I was wondering, is it possible to do that in blender ?
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How to make ‘image as planes” cast shadow but not be visible?
How to make ‘image as planes” cast shadow but not be visible? I only want to see the women’s shadow under her feet but not actually see her. Thanks.
Current node set up in Cycles:
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Change 2 colors of a texture among the 4 colors of a texture in Cycles
I have a texture issue with my character. Indeed my character does not have the right colors except black and white. I tried changing the colors of the textures with Cycles but not sure how to do it. ...
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Why does the lighting do not work?
it worked before but I decided to turn up samples and turn on denoising and such because it had to much noise/ white pixels and then after that the render is so dark. Here is the blender file
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How to create a glow animated circle that surrounds a sphere
I want to create an animation similar with this one; I am wonder how to create this glow animation effects ?
I do not know how to create the glow animated circle that surrounds the sphere; How to ...
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How can I programatically evaluate each pixel before final composition?
I'm using a complex compositor node setup, which in the end reduces the image to just a few solid colors. I would like to remove any pixels from the image which have no pixels of the same color in the ...
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Volume Absorption makes my water completely black?
I'm working on Grant Abbitt's low-poly sea shack tutorial. I have my water, and I wanted to try and add some volume absorption to it to see what it would look like. However, whenever I try to add the ...
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How to add weight to your textures
Soo i have started using texture in blender and i want my textures to look real like they have depth i have download textures and i know there are various type of textures like ambient, roughness etc. ...
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How to cull the backside of a mesh but keep the lights inside?
First off: the "backface culling" option for materials doesn't seem to do anything.
Second: I got the effect I wanted (almost) by using the Geometry node to mix a Transparent shader with a ...
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How do i make the image look like its directly outside my window
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So basically im trying to put a picture outside my window (in eevee) and when i do it appears far away and blurred, is there any way to put it directly outside my window? The roof also turns green ...
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Where is the Clamp Node
I've been experimenting with nodes recently and following along with other people's work. I've noticed they used a clamp node that I cannot seem to find in the search menu.
This blender documents say ...
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Why isn't my image texture working?
I am currently using blender 2.8 and I was putting a texture on a plane, so it shouldn't have to be unwrapped, but it crashed and when I went to put it back on it just comes out as like an average ...
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Nodes wont show up in 3D viewport
I am trying to toon shade my model however nothing is showing up in the 3D view port. I have done everything the videos have told me to do to start a material with shading, and it can be seen on the ...
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Ambient Occlusion node in EEVEE not working
So I am using Blender 2.8, and I cannot seem to get the Ambient Occlusion node to work in EEVEE. I realize it is in beta, so it could just be a bug in 2.8, but I have seen other people use ambient ...
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Having issues with blended shader
I was killing time making a lowpoly version of a trashcan that a kitbash with online parts but I wanted to make around the handles transparent using a alpha texture but, my issue is that or a blend ...
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How do I keep the pupils black? [closed]
I'm still trying to understand nodes. But I have looked everywhere for explanations on proper eye gloss/transparency and have followed all instructions to the letter, always to the same effect. I have ...
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How to get transparent glass option under film?
I saw a response to the question
"Render Glass like materials with Alpha Channel to composite in external app" that you can check a transparent glass option under film to make the background image ...
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How do you render background image through transparent object? [duplicate]
I tried rendering an object that has a mixed glass and diffuse shader and also a background image but after adding a holdout shader in image 2 to make the object transparent to see the background ...
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Slimy translucent material help?
I want to create a material that is transparent but also has a "wet" or slimy look, like the bug in MiB 1 or the demogorgon from Stranger Things. I don't know if you could achieve this with a ...
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How to hide the reflection of an object in blender
I have a transparent sphere encasing a diffuse inner core with a cut out from one of its sides (shown in the attached photo). Is it possible to keep the outer material semi glossy to show reflections ...
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Can I only Render light that psses through an object?
In the image below I would like only the light that passes through the sphere, in this case the bright dot in the center, to be visible. Is there a way to set this up in cycles?
Thanks,
Tyler
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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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Why does adding shaders take the colour out of grass in render mode
I am making a field of grass using particle systems. The set up has 2 different clumps, green and green/brown plus some weeds and flowers. In materials mode, when I add shaders, (translucent and ...
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nVidia skin shader with the Principled BSDF
I've been using a skin shader primarily based on the Brecht skin shader, which is itself based on the Sum-of-Gaussians approach as seen in 14.4.7 from GPU Gems by nVidia. Its Cycles adaptation, which ...
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Strongest shadow [duplicate]
Blender Cycles. I have lamp type sun and i want have strongest shadow (blacker) but emission must stay. I have sun "size" = 0 and still not strong for me. Any idea?
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why is an extremely simple render taking too long? takes same time to render a much more complex scene... need help
I am doing renders on a somewhat old laptop through cpu and not GPU. not the fastest set up but gets the job done slowly and surely. I do have an issue where i created a scene of a dark room for ...
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Is there a way to determine if a ray is coming from a volume?
I am trying to create a light that only illuminates volume scatters.
The input > light path node has "is X ray" outputs for all the various types of rays coming off a surface. However I'd like ...
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What are some use cases for the singlar ray output?
Using the singular ray output, it's possible to detect whether or not the object is being viewed through a perfectly sharp reflection or refraction:
Besides changing colors of reflections, what are ...
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OSL: Giving the texture method a color instead of string
Is there a way to give the OSL method
texture(string, float, float, ...)
a color input instead of the string which reads an image file?
Or is there any type of ...
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