Questions tagged [shadows]
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Render shadows over a transparent background in cycles
I'm trying to make a logo that will be on the header of a website.
What I'd like to achieve, and the reason I'm using Blender, is the projected shadows on the background looking perfectly real (as ...
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Objects, shadows and reflections not rendering in EEVEE
I started to work with EEVEE short time ago and I was amazed by the capabilities of this engine. However, I noticed something strange when I was rendering some tests. Some objects/reflections/shadows ...
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Glass casting shadows and not looking real
I'm trying to make these glass planes on the ceiling but something weird is going on with the glass shader. I tried couple of different ones but nothing seems to do the job. I'm talking about shadows ...
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Volumetric Windows 10 logo effect
I'm trying to recreate the windows 10 background effect on a logo I've made in blender.
Half the logo has a glass like material, the other half has a steel like material. And I'm using cycles at the ...
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Shadow terminator artifacts issues
I work with Blender 2.81a and I have a problem with some artifacts in the shadows of objects with smooth shading. Based on the release note of Blender 2.81 ,(https://www.blender.org/download/releases/...
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How do the new light probes in EEVEE work?
I've been experimenting with Blender's new EEVEE render engine, and so far have failed to get the realistic results I'm aiming for.
I've seen some online tutorials and articles about the assets under ...
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How to minimize/soften the shadows?
I am very beginner in Blender Cycles.
I am trying to imitate this in cycles: Easter Eggs
Not sure if this scene is CG or an actual photograph.
I have modeled the eggs (easy), now I just want to ...
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What is Clamp Direct/Indirect?
What does the "Clamp Direct" and Indirect values mean? I may seem silly but i'm really new to blender. Could you please tell me what are they useful for? Thanks!
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How to get rid of internal shadows/blackness in glass/transparent/refractive materials?
So I'm trying to make some very refractive glass in Blender Cycles. I've tried using the mix shader with Glass, Trasparency, by a factor of Is Shadow Ray + Is Reflection/Trasparency Ray etc, and I've ...
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How to change the shadow color in Blender Cycles?
I want to change the color of the shadow casting by a cube to green. While it's very easy to do it in Blender Internal (you select the lamp, go to the Lamp data header and change the shadow's color in ...
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Shadow Incorrect at Bottom of Edge
In the images below, I have a cube that is sticking up about two thirds through a plane. But, despite the fact that the cube is not hovering over the plane, the shadow seems to indicate otherwise. How ...
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Fixing shadows in cycles without increasing subdivision
I'm creating a dune model in blender with cycles and the shadows are kind of messed up. the model is only created from a subdivided plane and then using noise textures. it already has 1.7 million ...
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Volumetric Lighting not showing very well
I'm making an old dusty attic render and I've come across a bit of a problem. (Or several)
I'm using 300 samples and the Denoiser, and as you can see in the following picture the rays are not showing ...
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How can I make a shadow disappear in Cycles?
I'm doing an acetate animation effect: Text on 'transparent plastic' lays down on a white surface, and as the text lays down its shadow, from a sun lamp, plays on the white surface.
All achieved. A ...
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A mishmash of questions about lighting and messing with parallel line textures [closed]
I'm brand new to Blender (and 3D modeling). I'm attempting to use it to duplicate this graphical style (not my work):
I've created my terrain, and experimented with a variety of node tutorials to ...
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Shadow Catcher makes background objects invisible
I am following this tutorial on 2.79c about Shadow Catcher features of the latest build of Blender 2.79.
My result is that the Shadow Catcher makes a "hole" in the object that is behind it. In my ...
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What is a shadow ray?
I have read the Blender documentation wikis on both the light path node and on light paths. But neither of them seems to clearly explain what a shadow ray is.
For instance, the light paths wiki says:...
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How to hide object but keep shadow in EEVEE?
This is very easy to do in Cycles, just have to click on the camera checkbox.
I cant figure out how to do this in EEVEE.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Shadow-catcher stays noisy even with Denoising - also very dark
I am facing some issues with the shadow-catcher and denoiser in Blender 2.79.
Denoising doesn't seem to have any effect on shadow catcher shadow. If I turn off shadow catcher on ground plane the ...
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Problem with shadow catcher and a question about alpha blending
I have a model of an object and a ground
and I need to separate the two into two different render images. First image -- object with a transparent shadow, second image -- ground without an object. ...
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2.81 Transparent Background Shadow Catcher
I have a fairly simple setup in Blender 2.81a.
A model, light source, camera, and a simple plane beneath it. I am attempting to render an image which renders the plane as a transparent background, ...
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Eevee shadow problem
Recently I downloaded blender 2.8 for the new real-time render engine, but then I found out that the shadow in the eevee is really unexpected. Just like shown above, the quality of the shadow is bad ...
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Pixelated shadow appearing in Cycles when using bump in node editor
I have a fairly simple scene with two cubes and a sphere on a plane. Each of the items has an image texture applied to it and a point lamp provides illumination.
The sphere has a slightly more ...
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How can I fix this jagged Shadows?
I already subdividied the surface, but still getting this raw shadows in between of the spheres.
What can I do?
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Transparent shadow catcher under HDRI lighting in Cycles?
This question and its answers give nice ways of creating plane shadow catchers that make the CG objects "interact" with the HDRI world.
My question is very similar, but different in the sense that I ...
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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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Conflicting faces rendering as black
In my blend file here, I'm trying to write a shader that uses a gradient to mix between transparency and the surface material.
So far, I've managed that. But when transparent, the object shows black ...
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Donut glass cup render has too many grains and speckles + denoiser come out distorted, shadow is also too opaque. What settings may I try out?
I feel I am nearing completion of the tutorial but am still having gaps in knowledge on how to render light properly.
2.92.0 blender file: https://pasteall.org/blend/6474d6f8bd5f4b1abbabaa41478e7e6a
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How to make Shadows-Only Render
How can I achieve the following effect? Here, we see all shadows, and nothing else.
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How to render an object without its shadow?
I am trying to delete the shadow from the heart but I can't:
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Make an object not cast a shadow in eevee
Is there a way to make a single object not cast shadows in Eevee?
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Is there a way to adapt False Color to be seen for color blind people?
I have severe red/green protonopia and find the red and green to be the same when I use False Color mode to calibrate lighting exposure.
I'm wondering if there is a way to get numeric feedback on ...
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How is Cycles different from V-Ray?
From what I know, V-Ray is the most realistic render engine out there. But, I also know that Cycles is physically accurate. How is Cycles different from V-Ray and what are the major differences when ...
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shadow clipped when zoom out ( eevee )
I like the shadow here but when the camera zoomed out,
the shadow gone. Is this normal? how to fix this?
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How do I make a pure white plane that receives shadows?
Basically, I just want a shader for my ground plane that receives shadows but is otherwise pure white. I figured this would just be a simple checkbox or two but it's proving to be more complicated. ...
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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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Render object with only shadow
I have this image (the background is transparent):
I was wondering if there is a way to only render the shadow of the ball, while rendering the rest of the ball transparent?
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Eevee displays shadows as though they levitate
I have a model of a building with balconies and have a few issues with shadows when trying to display them with Eevee renderer (Cycles renders good though). Honestly, I'm new to blender so may be you ...
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Shadow not visible on texture
In cycles I have imported an image as a plane.
I've added an object to it and the default lamp. I see shadow from my own object onto the object itself but my object does not have any shadow on the ...
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render with no shadows like in solid mode
It is possible to render a final animation with objects to look like when in solid mode and no shadows etc? How could I do that?
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How do i get rid of these black shadows?
I'm trying to render an animation about this children's crib. Essentially I'm creating a "How to install" guide as the printed one is dated and difficult to understand.
Using Blender 2.78 in cycles, ...
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Is there a way to cast a shadow only on certain objects/materials but not on others?
I have an idea in my head of an animation where the (soft) shadow of some otherwise invisible object is constantly being cast on a character's face. I created that shadow-casting object and parented ...
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Mix shader object (semi-transparent) causing unwanted light spots with Cycles on material beneath
I am new to Blender and I cannot wrap my head around this:
The issue:
I have a planet (icosphere) with a noise texture and a small noise bump map. Above it is a slightly larger icosphere with a mix ...
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Eevee get darker shadows
I've setup a scene just the way I like it (world surface lighting and two directional lights) but shadows are not dark enough.
Decreasing world color and compensating it with increased lights color ...
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How can I make any mesh be filled with smoke?
I tried putting volume scatter and other nodes into the volume output in the node tree of a monkey but it creates a cube of volume around that monkey, how can I make it so it's like a monkey shaped ...
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Background is not blending well
In the Introduction to Camera Tracking tutorial by Blender Guru, in the first 40 minutes, he gives an introduction to Camera Tracking and then shows how to make a hole in a road. He did this in ...
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Emission plane is casting a shadows in cycles
My emission objects (which are flat planes) are casting shadows parallel to their faces. Rotating the planes causes the shadow line to move but not to diffuse.
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Render with ...
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One object isn't rendering a shadow in Cycles
I haven't encountered this issue before, so I apologize if this is a simple fix... but I'm trying to work on a small interior scene, and for some reason, I can get the shadow of a table to show up in ...
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How do I make shadows through glass and liquid more transparent and less opaque?
Andrew's glass:
My glass:
Light paths settings: None of these seem to change the shadow (or rather the cup's?) see through
What settings can I possibly fiddle with? the more the merrier! :)
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Cycles Textures not showing with shading - Works in Eevee
I think this must be some simple thing that I have missed, but I can't get this model to render properly in Cycles, yet it works perfectly in Eevee. The cycles version is not rendering with any ...
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