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How can I make shiny fish scales like these in blender?
I want to make a mermaid character whose scales are iridescent and very reflective/shiny, but without the ugly and unwanted reflection of nearby objects, just like real fish scales. I tried to do it ...
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use textures with displacement map on large scale terrains
I have created a landscape with a HightMap (exr from Gaea). To use the Hightmap, I took a plane (200x200m, 100 subdivision) and applied a subdivision surface modifier 5/5 and a displacement modifier, ...
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Shading works for mirrored object only
I have mirrored the right eyeball and went to Shading. But what i do there only applies to the left eye. I've made a material and selected it and assigned it but nothing seems to happen.
I thought i ...
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Shading issue only occurs on a single frame in Cycles?
I have rendered a video with a red wave (plane with wave modifier), which moves around the earth. The shading is set so it gets darker (alpha decreased) with increasing distance from the earth's ...
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Accelerator keys in Blender 4.0
Does anybody know how to make accelerator keys to work in Blender 4.0 ?
Can it be fixed by an add-on?
They 'replaced' accelerator keys with a search bar.
I read UI dev discussion and I think their ...
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Bevel modifier causes incorrect normals
I'm trying to apply the modifier to the closet and the window you see in the screenshot (I'm actually following a tutorial so he might have different settings, but I didn't manage to solve my issue). ...
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single mesh with multiple colors per part in array
I've been wanting to make a model so when I make a single mesh into an array, each part of that array has a different color. The image below is some kind of example. For example, the first ribbon ...
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How do I make a smooth shaded mesh not look weird?
I'm someone who wants to try and make a game and modelling is one o the aspects I'm trying to learn. I'm new here in blender and I don't know a whole bunch yet. But I'm trying to cut a shape of a lego ...
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UV project on object without the projection on the back of it
I'm using a camera to reproject an image on a mesh using UVProject and a material with image texture + emission shader, and it appears that the image is also visible on the back of the object.
Do you ...
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How to assign emission material to Line Art modifier?
I'm using the Line Art modifier on a grease pencil stroke assigned to a mesh. However the materials that are available to paint the stroke with are only diffuse shaders.
Is there a way to make the ...
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Data transfer Custom normals Not working/responding to proxy being moved
I was following this tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KzhNYyp63A&list=PLZpDYt0cyiusDdsgdb9FgfT7onV7th8mJ&index=11
In order to make a model that shaded in a similar manner however for ...
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How to boolean cut without losing shader effect?
I followed this video to make a plank with wood effect shader.
However, when cutting the plank at the end, I'm getting this result:
I'm losing the shader effect on the cut part. I may have missed ...
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Workaround massive bool operation
I have this formation of objects. These are around 23.000 cylinders and a Sphere in the middel. I need to make a hole everywhere a cylinder intercepts with the sphere and then export this sphere to an ...
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Hide Character When It Leaves Room
Wondering how I could prevent a character from being rendered on the other side of a wall as they leave an room. Viewing from above the room and character goes out a door and the character is ...
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Embedding text in curved surface
I've been trying to create a keycap, with a slightly translucent letter embedded and lit up by an emmision texture. I've mostly been succesful but i've hit a brick wall, I used the boolean operation ...
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Why do these "Black Blobs" appear within very tiny spaces in blender?
I have a shader which uses a massive array of planes mixed with a transparent BSDF to render 3D / Procedural textures, such as this marble fractal..
However, cycles appears to render these odd "...
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I am trying to do a Boolean cut here; but there are some weird shading issue going on. How to fix that?
Here, I am trying to make a Boolean cut, but their are some shading issues going on.
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How to get ocean displacement waves?
I'm working on a scene where a ship moves in the ocean. But I'm not getting bow displacement waves.
Minor rendering errors are present.
Here are the settings for dynamic paint waves (brush):
I've ...
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How would I Replicate this binary black hole simulation in eevee?
https://www.universetoday.com/116500/new-simulation-offers-stunning-images-of-black-hole-merger/
I've got a good feel for creating a material in eevee that bends light around the black center of a ...
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Shading after making hole/boolean
so I've been working on my gun project for a little bit now, and I am having some trouble with the shading. As you can see here I've made a hole and joined another object using union in boolean ...
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Toon Outline Not Following Armature
I've been building my own character mesh and following the Lightning Boy Studios videos on Youtube to try to create my own toon shader/outliner. For the outliner, I'm using a solidify modifier with a ...
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Shading or bevels are not aligned
I am not sure if this is a bevel or shading issue, but I have been trying to move arround the vertices to fix it but it seems not to be working. Disolving the edges doesn't seem to work to. Any idea ...
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Shading Issue with Array
I have created a simple mesh that I would like to array. However, when I use an array there is visible distortion in the shading where the array meets (highlighted in red here, I'm viewing it using ...
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How to increase ocean foam?
I created an ocean simulation in which a ship passes and displaces the ocean but the problem here is that the foam is not visible or less visible in camera view. How do I increase the foam cover area? ...
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Can't get particles to shade smooth
I'm instancing 2 particle systems on one object. I'm also using the data transfer modifier to get custom normals on the same object. But to use that modifier I have to enable autosmooth.
That's where ...
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Radially-symmetric array doesn't work with volume shaders
I'm modelling a vase with 10-fold symmetry. I created a single side by
Model the profile with a Bezier curve
Turn the curve into an edge loop
Duplicate, offset and ...
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Shadows not Showing up? Also help with color variation in shaders
Here is a link to the blend file
Click here to download
I created this set of gumdrops with an array modifier. The Rectangle underneath is shaded to like marble and has a couple of image textures and ...
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How do I make a pulsating light effect material?
I wanna make a material or animation that can do something similar to this video on multiple different points on a surface. But with different speeds and distortions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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What's the fastest / most fun way to create a fork in Blender?
Related challenge: What's the fastest and / or craziest way to
model an arrow in Blender?
I tried to make a fork in Blender, but it was so boring I fell asleep.
Is there a faster / more fun way to ...
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Issue with the bool tool
This has been driving me crazy! The included picture explains more.
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how to "randomize the color "of arrayed object
I was making the tutorial of the "easy environment design " of Ducky 3D.
I wanted to try to randomize the color of the arrayed cylinders' emission part.
by info object node and color ramp.
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Why is this blue color appearing
I have a wave modifier on on object which has a couple of array modifier. i object , then an array to make it 10 , then an array to make total 100(multiply) .Then these 100 peices (one single) have a ...
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Boolean on curved face with smooth shader
I've started modelling my first car ever just for practice on Blender. I modelled the rims (maybe not the best topology but for now I think it's almost good.)
Now I need to model the flat circled ...
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“Real” water puddles with “real” edges
Working with 2.9 and Cycles, I have created a wet asphalt road. In order to create water puddles on this asphalt, I have duplicated the road object and given it a water material. Then I played with ...
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smooth shading issues after booleaning cylinder
i was trying to make a hole in cylinder part of my object, but then i faced a problem. after adding a modifier, shading issues became visible (like on a picture). what am i supposed to do?
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Adding more cuts not creating more round object when using curve modifier on specific object
I needed more detail in this barrel that I made from flat plane and using curve modifier to bend it,
but when I add more cutts they are ignored when bending and the shape stays the same as if they ...
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Need advice to cleanup and rectify shading issues caused by boolean
Need advice. I used union boolean to make this object, now need help to cleanup and rectify shading issues. Thank you
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Is it possible to apply ocean modifier for only one face of geometry?
I was trying to recreate this illustration with my limited knowledge.
And while doing that I tried to follow some tutorials. In one of the tutorials, the animation done with ocean modifier and ...
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Boolean issues with subdivision surface [duplicate]
I have a problem with the Boolean and subsurface division: it created shading issues.
Herewith I attach the image with my modifiers.
Need help to solve this problem
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How to smooth the face after boolean modifier applied? [duplicate]
The face is not smooth out after I applied boolean modifier and after shade smooth.
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Shading issue with parametric modelling and booleans [duplicate]
I'm new to Blender and I started to learn by modeling an old camera lens with the help of this excellent tutorial on parametric non-destructive modeling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9CXeprYW1M&...
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Smooth shading not working for curve elements
I used an array aswell as curve modifier in blender 2.8 to create a room out of an object, applied all the modifiers (no more active modifiers now), removed all doubles and activated the smooth ...
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Weird shading on mesh after using boolean? [duplicate]
As you can see below, there's some strange, slightly visible shading issues on my mesh. I looked at the normals and they're facing the right way, and I tried using an edge split modifier as well. This ...
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Ocean plane shader with transparency
I've made this ocean scene following a tutorial.
I want the shader to be transparent so I can see sharks or whatever though the water.
But adding transmission doesn't seem to work. And since it's a ...
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Invisibility Effect (Dual-Video Overlay)
gif: https://i.sstatic.net/frSde.jpg (excerpt from https://vimeo.com/101172118)
Wondering if this is possible in Blender. Is it masking and chromakeying? Not really sure what to call it: two moving ...
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Shader node link connector invisible blender 2.82
I downloaded Blender 2.82 its good, but my problem is that the shader node link is invisible while dragging to connect another node. Any solution?
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Fill in object with procedural shader, like vessels in human body [duplicate]
I’m trying to achieve in Blender Cycles (preferably 2.79b) a shader that fills in any object with procedural generation.
For example, if I have a model of a hand, I want to fill with vessels inside ...
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Access array modifier index in shader
Is it possible to get the array index of an array modifier in the shading editor?
I need to shift the UV of every array segment by a certain amount. I can't apply them because the number of segments ...
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Array not looking smooth in render along a path
I have an array modifier attached to a curve with a curve modifier. I want to make the crease in between each cube smooth but it's not working. I've applied the array modifier and smoothed the faces, ...
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Shading after Boolean
How do i fix this kind of shading after using boolean mod?
EDIT:
I can make the shading better by applying the modifiers and fixing the topology this way.
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