Questions tagged [shadows]
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rendering with/without shadows
I'd like to render 60 frames of animation, where actually nothing moves, just the sunlight and the shadows are moving a little bit. I'd like to differenciate the objects and the shadows and render ...
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Weird Sharp Shadows when normal baked with cage
I am getting this weird sharp edges at the shadow transition when I used cage while baking them.
It didn't appear when I when cage was not used, but without cage the edges are very sharp and don't ...
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How can I use shadow from environment world (HDRI)?
I make an animation in Blender 2.79 and render it using EEVEE in Blender 2.8 as it's very fast. One problem is that if I use HDRI whenever I do this for background, shadow of mesh doesn't appear on ...
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How can I prevent object(s) from casting shadows on certain object(s)?
I'm making a scene with a spaceship on Earth's orbit. I won't have it in the same scale so I need to prevent the spaceship from casting shadow on the Earth.
Ideally, the spaceship would be created ...
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Shadows not calculated properly for some of the faces in the mesh
I'm running into this issue guys where I'm rendering these dark faces even though the normals are correctly placed.
I used the knife tool to cut-up the mesh for most of teh scars and cracks you see ...
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Cast a shadow with HDR world lighting?
I have quickly created a bed in Blender and I'm using HDR lighting on the World node in Cycles, is it possible to create a shadow underneath the bed without adding more 'light' to the object?
So ...
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Light casts wird shadow on glass!
When I try to make the glass cover for my clock, this is what happens. The strange ball appears to be a shadow that is cast by the light source. When I tick off specular for the light source, the ...
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Looking for the logic behind some simple flat UI drop shadows
I'm currently trying to create continuity from a blender render to an element on an html page, and attempting to match the box-shadow property of an html element to the way drop shadow looks from a ...
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Possible to control or limit distance of gloss and shadow how it affects other objects?
I'm creating a scene with a room and I wonder if it possible, with the help of nodes, limit the distance of an objects shadow and glossy to nearby objects or as an alternative tell object A not to ...
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shadow catcher + diffuse indirect to have color in the shadows
How can I make a red sphere on a shadow catcher plane being visible?
I mean: the final image is a red sphere laid on a background image with a shadow, BUT in this shadow I wish to get a bit of red.(...
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I have a problem with splitting an object
I'm doing an illusion kind of animation, where a rules is split in two and where the other part is closer to the camera than the other, but they should seem to be connected at first. The camera will ...
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Using shadows as an input in cycles?
I'm trying to create a cartoon styled animation, and I'd like to give shadows a texture separately from the rest of the material, similar to this video at around 5:00, but not in real time. Is there a ...
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Why is glass shadow blocky in viewport render?
Raytraced shadow was set to be smooth (Point lamp: 6 samples, 2 size) and solid material produces fine results, but enabling any transparency gives strange blocky parts inside smooth area.
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Part of shadow disapear in Render. (Smoke domain problem?)
I get smoke shadow on to my plane until fram nr 149(of 650) Then the yellowed lined box from the smoke(smoke spehre in my smoke domain)goes past my plane/ground.
Then the shadow disapper from my ...
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Glass shadow/ see through problem
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I am trying to make some colored glass blocks but on the image below the shadows are render like it's the block is solid.
On the top image, the shadows are rendering fine, but the seethrough ...
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How to composite shadow pass with image sequences?
I rendered passes from a scene in another program and wanted to use Blender to composite them. What is the node setup for combining a diffuse color pass and shadow pass into one image? Thanks!
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Wiil a speedtree cast shadow in cycles render?
I want to know how can I cast a shadow of a tree to my render.
If I use a speed tree in front of the light, will it cast shadow to the objects?
Or should I place a 3D tree model?
Or else should I ...
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How to get transparent shadows using a spot with irregular/deep buffer?
I'm using Blender's internal renderer, trying to get some transparent shadow using a spot light with deep or irregular buffer switched on. Contrarily to this answer, the manual for 2.77 states this ...
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Shadow edges from object mode different from edit mode
Shadows are being smoothed around all vertices, like fake extra vertices exist around all real vertices. I don't want this (at least yet). This sort of happened to me, I must have misused some hotkey. ...
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Cell shaded effect
Is it possible to get a cell shaded effect on blender similar to the image below?
http://gamegrass.com/game_img/2013/02/01/754.jpg
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Are there Shadow Groups" like there are Light Groups?
Im having a problem where I only want an object cast shadows on itself, with one light group. I have two separate light groups, and two light source, but the objects still seem to cast shadows onto ...
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What's causing this shadow line?
I have an emissive texture up against a wall. it's just a flat plane with a color set to the emission channel. At some distance, there is a sharp shadow line on the wall—but I don't see how it's ...
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No shadow after render
I'm new to blender and have only spent about two hours on it.
I drew an animation and it went out just fine in preview, however after I rendered it, all shadows are gone (shadows below the object &...
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Shadow in transparent background in blender 2.77 cycles
I heard about shadow in newer version in blender 2.77 without any compositing and i don't how to do that,anyone tell me how to add shadow in transparent background in blender 2.77 cycles.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shadow of my model glitches and looks weird
Good evening, I recently found a problem with my model's shadow: the shadow glitches when camera moves, and it generally looks weird:
And here is a shader I tried to use on it:
I tried to ...
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Shadows in Cycles
I have a request. Do you know where I am doing wrong? I have soft shading in the preview, but it's hard after rendering.
Thank you Tom
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My doughnut shadow is fine in the viewport, but floating in render
This is what my donut looks like in the viewport:
the shadow is fine and placed correctly. but when I make a image render, the shadow is misplaced, and it makes it look like my donut is floating like ...
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Hand painted textures as shadows
I do a lot of work with Cycles and hand-drawn textures but I want to use image textures as real shadows, so this may partially be a shader question or even compositing.
I'm inspired by Hewa's work
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How do you make a sky texture ignore shadows?
I'm modeling an indoor scene where I need a skybox that lights up all of the objects even though it is indoors. Is there a way specifically to get a skybox texture in cycles that just lights up ...
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Jagged shadows in EEVEE even with highest cascade / Cube size
I was working on a scene, in EEVEE, the shadows looked great, and after working on the geometry for a while, I noticed the shadows look jagged and really low-res. Here's the comparison between an ...
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Shadows and grease pencil have disappeared
I'm having problems in this image. When I started creating it, there were cast shadows under the cloud in the foreground, and the Zeppelin. There are also supposed to be spinning propellers on each of ...
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Shadows appear when shrink wrap is used
I want to put decals on the surface of a face object, but I am having trouble with shadows appearing.
I can already remedy this by unchecking the shadows in the visibility, but is there any way to fix ...
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When I merge by distance the model gets these distorted shadows
I'm new to this so not sure if I'm explaining it all correctly, but basically in order to parent with automatic weights, I have to use "merge by distance", otherwise it doesn't work. Now ...
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How can I fix this jagged shadow?
I'm trying to achieve a toon shading look with hard shadows, but when I turn off soft shadows I get a very jagged shadow around the neck, is there any way to fix this? I've tried upping the render ...
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How to fix all the flicker when rendering
I made something in Blender today. But when I rendered it has some black streaks flicker around the faces of object. I'm not sure how to fix the problem, I tried a few methods but it didn't work out ...
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eevee rendering problem weird shadows on surface / artifacts / looks hollow
Heyo,
I am getting these weird shadows on the surface when rendering with eevee, but it looks fine with cycles. I already turned on soft shadows and increased cube & cascade size, that didnt help (...
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Inconsistent Shading and Separation in Model's Appearance
I'm currently facing an issue with the shading of my model, which results in inconsistent shadows and lighting on different sides. It appears as if the two halves of the model are visually separated, ...
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Glass casting opaque shadow in cycles
So I've created this glass material with a color map to get some colored windows, but the light doesnt pass through it. I'm doing it on cycles so i've read a couple of people with similar issues but ...
