Questions tagged [shadows]
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How to add shadows and specular highlights in composting?
This is a scene that I have made in Blender:
The locations and angles of the lights and lamps are known to me [obviously].
I want to superimpose images on this rendered image through compositing such ...
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Getting unwanted diffused shadows even without a light in the scene [closed]
I'm trying to do a simple render in Cycles with my objects projecting a shadow on a clean background but I keep getting these weird diffuse shadows together with the nomal shadows from my sun light ...
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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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Odd shadows are jagged and spikey
Why are the shadows cast from a "point light" on the left hand side so jagged and spikey? The chest's lid demonstrates it best. I would expect a smoother line parallel with the castee.
I can'...
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Letter shadow and letter alignment problem
I got a job and I need to add shadow to the text as in the image. But there are two problems here:
1- The middle of the shadow is very dark, while the rest of it is darker. How can I set this? I want ...
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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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How do I fix this very rough sort of lighting in Eevee? [duplicate]
I am making a simple render consisting of cubes and the lighting looks like this and forms weird edges and triangles on the faces, and it looks horrible on renders. I don't know how to fix this nor do ...
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How to get rid of multiple overlapping shadows?
When I move around in the viewport, these shadows solidify as if they are one, but when I stop moving they look like this. How do i get it to be more like a single soft shadow?
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Eevee shadows not the same as Cycles; is there a fix?
Looks like generating accurate shadows is not something EEVEE can do. Or is there a fix I'm not aware of? I researched enough to learn that I had to turn "contact shadows" on, but that just ...
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Why is the shading different on these two different parts of the same mesh?
I modeled a Z GT500 front and as I cut gaps on this mesh to finish it I noticed it has a very different lighting/shading despite using the same material, correct face orientation, applied scale; ...
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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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Bake self shadow into texture
I have a simple scene with only two objects. I want to bake shadow of one of them, but for some reason it ignores self shadow and bakes only shadow cast by other object. Have i missed something in ...
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Strange shadow on my object [duplicate]
I am beginner in the blender and i have a problem with a strange shadows on my objects.
It is hard to explain,so lets discuss an example.
I have a group of the flat (or almost flat) buildings (please ...
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Weird shadows, what is it?
weird shadows only on cylinders, how can i fix it?
That happens when i always use spin mode
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Why can I see the seperate shapes in the shadows? Is there a way to fix this?
I am modeling a character and I used the shrinkwrap modifier to combine two parts of his head. It all looks fine until you render it and you can clearly see the difference between the two separate ...
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Blender USD model doesn't create shadow
I exported two Blender (ver 3.6.0) models into two USD ones. They all don't have any internal light. I show them in my program with a directional light source. It is a surprise that one (the chess ...
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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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Eevee one light creats multiple shadows
I have one light source and it creats 4 shadows in Eevee. The light is in the back of the model so, where are the others coming from? And there is one that is only the shadow of the hair and not the ...
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Challenging Transition from Vertical to Horizontal Faces
I'm trying to make a transition from vertical to horizontal faces, but I have no idea how to do it without causing shading issues. I've never seen the pattern like this before and I didn't find ...
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How to connect flat and tilted edges properly?
I create a mesh with this specific pattern and I need to connect this two edges without causing shading issue (img 1). If I just fill them with F key the shading doesn't work properly because the ...
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shadow only looks good when it has to be behind the character. on the front does not work correctly
how to make the shadow stay correctly in front of the image plane, when it is supposed to be behind it is perfect, when it needs to be in front it is cut off and away from the character.[In this first ...
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When I activate the shadow catcher in the plane it shows the hdri instead of showing just the shadow
When the shadow catcher is activated on the plane, it shows the envarioment instead of the other ground plane
follow new images to check it out
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How to make "fuzzy" snow particle material in Eevee?
I'm trying to make a nighttime blizzard snowstorm scene with particles and wind, but I'm currently having trouble getting the particle material to render in a realistic way.
I followed this tutorial: ...
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In the Blender 3D viewport (TOP VIEW) When I turn on the shadow option... how can I adjust the position of this shadow?
In the Blender 3D viewport (TOP VIEW)
When I turn on the shadow option... how can I adjust the position of this shadow?
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Shading Issue after smoothing
I have a shading problem but I don't know how to fix it. I dont have enough experience to fix it alone so can somebody give me a tip.
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Shadows from the background (EEVEE) [duplicate]
Can the background (environment map) generate soft shadows in the EEVEE renderer?
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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 can I make shading like this?
I'm learning to make models. And I really like this shading style. I can understand the program at a basic level (at a level where I can do toon shading), but I don't know how to make the shadows edge ...
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Cylces is casting shadows on the doughnut but not on the plane
Shadows are being cast on a plane in the Eevee, but not in Cylces.
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I am unable to get rid of some persisting shadows when the object is transparent. What am I missing?
I'm attempting to animate the Alpha value of a basic material using the Principle BSFD surface. However, I've noticed some strange shadows persisting, and I'm unsure how to eliminate them. The Blend ...
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Weird Shading while rendering
I have this weird shadow on my coins while rendering. It does not appear in any other case than rendering. I tried rotating my light but it doesn't help. And I think it's not the topology causing the ...
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weird artifacts in shadows
I started to get really weird artifacts popping in my scene, i checked a bit everything i thought of but it doesn t seem to fix the issue. Do you guys have an ideas about that kind of stuff?
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How could you avoid multiple shadows when using multiple light sources?
I was wondering how you could avoid multiple shadows when using multiple light sources. I know that you can simply uncheck the "cast shadow" on the lights that you won't making shadows but ...
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Eevee contact shadows VS model complexity
I have contact shadows and ambient occlusion working well to represent position and height of buildings model on top of a terrain object, in a top-down, orthographic view.
The terrain object has a ...
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How to make world color not affect any mesh in eevee?
I want to make my world color in my animation blue, to mirror the sky, but it makes all of my meshes colored blue in the render mode. I'm using version 3.2.2. My goal is to have the meshes not ...
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Shadow not working properly in eevee
There is a spot light above. The shadow is very unnatural there is no shadow where the leg touches the ground us there any fix? I have turned up samples to 100, high bitrate, 2k cascade and cube, ...
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Shadows on transparent background not appearing with shadow catcher
I am rendering a png image with a plane transparent background being used a shadow catcher. However, the shadows are not appearing in the png. I have made sure that the shadow catcher is turned on in ...
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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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Tree branches showing shadows off each other, ruining their transparency [duplicate]
I have a dead tree asset that has branches which are a jumble of planes that have transparency. I want the shadow of the tree but I don't want the branches shadows to expose the transparency(and show ...
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How to disable shadows in Cycles?
I'm trying to disable shadows in Cycles for the purpose of using decals, since shadows break the illusion and make it an evident sticker. I've tried setting shadow mode to "none" in material ...
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How to make rigged vector shadows on 3d mesh?/changing Texture shapes based on lighting/ Making freestyle lines look more 2d like
I want to do flat 2d shadows on a 3d mesh for that cartoon effect in blender. The problem is, from my research, is the human eye can always detect when the shadow wraps perfectly around the mesh, ...
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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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shadows removed in layers
The "Shadow" option is not available in "Show Layer Properties" (Blender 3.5) was a link to this question however i want to be able to manipulate the shadows in compositing tab i ...
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Is there a way to do Stencil Shadows in Blender?
Is There a way to do Stencil Shadows (Stencil buffer) in blender ? or at least a way to cast texture in a shape of seperate mesh
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How can I deal with a shadow that is distracting from text?
In my scene, I was rendering each area with light to make sure it looked good but came across a problem where the shadow from a picture was positioned in the middle of some text in the render. It ...
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Strange shadows appearing between transparent objects
Alright, so first off I will say that I am very new to Blender and only started using it a few days ago, so if you want more information or have any solution explain it to my like I am 5 years old. ...
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Shaded smooth faces have weird shading
Why do shaded smooth faces have weird shading. Face orientation is as it should be I did check that.
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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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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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Shadows won´t dissapear even with Light
I applied a texture on a UV Sphere. But it has a shadow on it, even though I placed 3-4 Light sources.
It seems like the shadow is moving with the camera. I can not figure out why and how.
Do you know ...
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