Questions tagged [shadows]
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Casting Shadows on object through a transparent-like object
I am having some trouble trying to receive some shadows that are being casted by various other objects. I’ve placed a transparent like object between the other object that I want to receive shadows ...
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Transparent object shadows in volume material [Blender Internal]
Currently I am fighting with lighting artefacts within a smoke simulation, when the lightsource is within the volume and especially also within a transparent object within this volume. (Note this ...
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Baking specifically Shadows is broken (Blender 3.5)
I've tried to research this, but it seems like nobody's been having this issue. Running on blender 3.5, I've tried to bake the bake type shadow to an image texture, but the image it renders is always ...
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Unnatural shadows in corners with Cycles
The problem is that in all my renders the shadows in the corners, where objects/surfaces touch each other, look unnatural. The objects look "floating" above the surface, or "detached&...
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Weird shadow effect on render and preview
Anyone knows why this shadow error appears when I put a normal map on my model? It appears when I render or rotate the camera around the object. It seems to be an error with the pattern but i can't ...
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I have a weird shadow / occlusion glitch in my animation with Cycles
I have a weird "1 frame" glitch in my animation causing an unwanted occlusion or shadow.
You can see it in my gif in the mouth, and behind the creature a shadow trail on the picture.
Motion ...
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flickering shadows on my wooden house model
I took the idea from Ryan king channel this wooden house at the end I tried to render it as a PNG after that I went to see how it looks with my right arrow key to make the pic moves , but I noticed ...
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Lighting interacting weirdly with my glass
I have a glass which I have modelled along with a light source:
When i attempt to render the glass using the Cycles render engine, it comes up like this:
Why am I having these weird light ...
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Viewport Render is different from an actual render
So I was playing with Shader to RGB nodes, however I encountered a slight problem. I used an HDRI in EEVEE to make a simple lighting setup for my wooper, but it seems that the viewport render is ...
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Can you reverse engineer animated UV's?
I have a scene with animated lights so that the light and shadow changes dramatically over its 900 frames.
Is there any way to kind of reverse engineer the lights and shadows in the animation so that ...
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Where's the shadow light pass gone (cycles)?
I'm following a tutorial (very beginner here) which wants me to enable the "shadows" light pass in the view layer - the tutorial is in blender version 3.2, which the docs say has this, but I'...
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Weak/No shadows? ( EEVEE )
Ive created a shadow catcher to suit an HDRI image. The shadow catcher is only basically doing ambient occlusion and there is no signs of shadows. There should be an entire shadow under the car.
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Imported OBJ is super dark
I did a 3D scan, imported the obj and removed the material. For some reason, it shows up super dark in the viewport and in cycles render view. I've played with the materials but it keeps showing up ...
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How to view finalized render PNG with shadow catcher when scene denoise is turned on?
What lies behind this picture of a dolphin is a mesh set to be a shadow catcher, so it can effectively product an image floating in space.
I understand that in Blender 3 the shadow catcher function ...
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EVEE Lighting and Volume Scatter showing through walls
I have a scene set up in EVEE with an object with a volume scatter material and a light on the outside. The light should only be coming through a window but there is volume being illuminated along the ...
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How to add text to surface without causing a shadow
I have a render of a soda can that I did here:
I added the text using a curve modifier to make it wrap around the can. However, there is a shadow that shouldn't be there (Take a look at the star for ...
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How to fix inconsistent shadows on model
I have a shadow problem which looks like this:
Here are what the normals look like:
And here's how they look when I lift the 'button' from the model.
How should I go about fixing the shadows in my ...
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How to render prism refraction with Cycles?
The dispersion (red, green, blue) seems working under normal light conditions by using this methode Video.
But in the extreme case of using a prism it does not, the prism stays dark, no matter how ...
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no shadows where mesh intersect, weird glow instead,
Hey I am getting these weird glow instead of shadows near the edges or where the mesh intersects, I am rendering in Eevee and have AO turned on.
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The "Shadow" option is not available in "Show Layer Properties" (Blender 3.5)
When I turn on Cycles to render, I have no "Shadows" option in "Show Layer Properties" (Passes > Light > Other > ...), but in the video tutorial everything works perfectly....
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Smoke domain casts shadow despite the 'shadow' option is disabled in Ray Visibility
There is a point light just about the center of the smoke domain and even though the shadow ray visibility is disabled I keep getting flickering shadow glitches on the rendered animation. No ...
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No shadow for a specific object for a specific light
There are many objects in the scene, and multiple lights too. Now, if I do not want a specific object's shadow for a specific light, what should be done?
Note that there are a few answers like this ...
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Turn off shadows cast onto Backdrop Image
Is there a way to turn off "Shadow Catcher" for a backdrop image so no shadows are cast onto the image?
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What is this weird dark "blooming" around this object?
I have two separate files-- making a few maps. The lettering are all separate objects sunk into the map mesh.
I copied and pasted the objects into the new map. But as you can see, they throw off ...
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Weird shadowy area in Viewport Shader
I've been using Blender for quite some time now, and I frequently encounter this issue. This issue happens when I do custom meshes and add vertices, edges or faces. There is a weird shadowy area that ...
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(Blender Eevee 2.9) Soft shadow appear as hard shadow in render
I'm making this animation for someone, and when im rendering, the soft shadows i've set up are appearing as hard shadows in the rendered mode. They look absolutely fine and normal in the viewport mode....
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Is it posible to get the coordinates of the shadow from its rendering?
I need to know the volume of the shadow cast by an object by a light or at least the coordinates of the contour of the shadow in the floor. I thought that it would be possible to get the coordinates ...
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Where is the shadow catcher in blender 3.5?
I can't seem to find the shadow catcher in blender 3.5. Did they moved it or is it a bug and it's just not there?
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How do I remove this sphere of shadow in this render?
ONLY when I use cycles renderer, this odd sphere appears around the origin. It seems to be tied to the parent collection as it dissapears when I hide it, but none of the objects that are inside the ...
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Blender Cycles Lightmap Baking
I've got a scene in Blender (simple house) where I want to bake the lightmap of certain objects (e.g. the floor). My goal is to export the whole model in the .gltf format to use it with three js. I ...
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How to deal with one material is lighted up while baking indirect lighting in eevee and it does not have any shadows on object
I'm making an interior scene in eevee.
I need to bake indirect lighting to get better shadows, but i'm eneding up that scene in general looks too dark, while upholstery material looks too light.
If i'...
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baking lighting into a texture in Eevee?
Ive searched all over google and all i can find is videos from 2015 or unanswered questions, so if any of you could help, id be really thankfull.
I want to bake some shadows into a pretty simple ...
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My object looks black rather than transparent
How to obtain a perfectly transparent rendering? My object is composed of black material on the rendering that I would not like. Can I work on the light path in order to get a more transparent ...
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Sun lamp refusing to cast shadows in Eevee
Sun lamp refused to cast shadows in Eevee
Things I've tried:
Decreasing Max Distance
Increasing Max Distance
Triple checking material properties to make sure they cast shadows
Adjusted Every ...
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Help with Shadow(s) in Blender (Cycles)
Hello Blender community,
I ran into a problem.... What I want is to exclude the shadow that is cast by object 1on object 3. But the shadow from object 1 on object 2 must remain. How do I Fix this ...
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Why do the shadows on this detail normal map look so crunched?
wondering if this is a genuine issue, or if I'm just going insane. So, I wanted to try creating some normal maps from sculpted skin details (specifically goosebumps). Booted up a multires modifier, ...
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Strange, blocky shadows that glitch with camera movement in eevee scene
I have some strange, blocky shadows in my renders that glitch out whenever the camera or the objects move.
When I exit the camera view into 3d viewport it looks fine, but the blocky shadows show up ...
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How to manipulate/stylize the edges of shadows?
I am trying to manipulate/stylize the edges of shadows. What I mean by that is that I would like to split the transition of a shadow to non shadow area into different colours like so
Is either of ...
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Is it possible to create a concave light?
I need a concave light that can create sharp shadows, I've created a sketch to illustrate what I mean:
This light should be like the inside of a sphere, like a dome that casts light inward. I hope to ...
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Is there a way to remove lighting and make everything have the same light?
It looks like there is no lighting and the only source is my camera? How can I make everything white in the sphere without shading/lighting?
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Cycles alpha background, noise on edges
I am new to blender and i want to render some images with transparent background.
This image is rendered with cycles and the shadows are generated on a plane with Shadow catcher.
The problem is that ...
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Is there any way to select regions of mesh with shadow and measure the surface area of the mesh?
I am trying to quantify shadow on different parts of a mesh at different orientations of illumination. So far all I have found is to outline the shadow manually on the mesh, separate it and use the 3d ...
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Particle system rendered as object has weird shadow issues in Cycles, that is fixed when using children or random scale
I'm using particle system to distribute feather objects on a bird body. When I naively set it up and try to render it with Cycles, there is some of the objects shadows are not realistic (many of the ...
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Grease Pencil: render is darker than what is displayed in the viewport
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I have a material with a certain color, but in the rendering it appears a bit darker. See here:
Maybe there is an light or shadow source.
What I've tryed:
deleted all light ...
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Stop object from receiving shadow
I know I can stop an object from casting a shadow under "Ray Visibility," but can I also stop an object from receiving one in Cycles? Sometimes I want an object to cast a shadow, but only ...
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Dark, Unwanted Shadows Between 'leaves' when Rendering in Cycles
I am hoping someone can help me with this situation. I am very new to rendering and texturing in blender and have not so surprisingly come across an issue that is preventing further progress.
I am ...
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How to get rid of multiple overlapping(jagged) shadows when donwsizing objects in Evee?
Soft shadows when downzing the object to 0,1m scale:
When i model using 1m scale my softshadows just becomes normal:
What i expected from a tutorial i'm following:
What i tried and didn't work:
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When using the particle system, some assets don't use their alpha channel (Weird Pixels and Black Planes)
I'm rendering a scene that I created with some assets and trees from Sapling Tree Gen. But in my rendering there are these weird pixels/shadows and when I look closely I notice that some bushes don't ...
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Viewer node does not pop up in Blender 3.0
I am close to nervous breakdown.
I have tried everything but the viewer node does not show up.
I have rendered the image.
I have enabled the node Wranger add-on.
When I click Shift+Ctrl+LMB the ...
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Transparent eyebrow mesh start glowing if subsurface translucency map is added to skin (Cycles)
I'm making a lowpoly game character (using Blender 3.3.1).
It is one mesh and has 3 materials on it. The eyebrows/lashes material is transparent.
If I add a subsurface translucency map to the skin ...
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