Questions tagged [shadows]
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Long shadow - Landscape - Displacement
I use displacement (With a greyscale) image, to create a 3D looking map.
I would like long shadow, as if the scene were light up by a morning sun.
I tried to change the position of the sun.
I tried to ...
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Object affect volume shadow only
I'm trying to have an object cast volume shadow only, but it should NOT cast shadow nor be visible to the camera. Is this even possible?
Here's my test file
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Shadows from box projected texture appearing in the wrong places
I'm working on a semi-procedural planet generator, and the clouds are made using a seamless clouds texture set to box project, but for some reason their shadows are appearing in the wrong places. Does ...
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How to fix my shadow catcher?
What do you suggest I do to fix my shadow catcher plane so that the barrel of the tunnel doesn't leave a gap, causing it to cast a harder shadow?
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Megascan object, viewport shadow is odd black
Updated:
Here is my packed Blender file:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18oEstq5oBS_6ILUNNtZeRxpP4Fthnnhx?usp=sharing
Thanks to Lemon!
Hi everyone,
I've been trying to import Megascan objects ...
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Adding texture to Cast Shadows in Blender 2.8/2.9 Eevee
I have been researching if there is a way to add textures to cast shadows in Eevee. I found what I was looking for on Youtube but it only works in Cycles.
Here is the Video
https://www.youtube.com/...
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recreating shadows
How could I recreate this enviroment with these soft shadows? and how to make it more realistic?
Example with good realistic shadows:
My example
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Cycles Emission Material Receiving Shadows
I am trying to follow this tutorial. Around 36:00 in the tutorial, he adds an UV sphere with an emission material that will eventually become the sun. However, when I follow the exact same steps, my ...
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Problem with Transparency/Mix Shader: shadow on the contact zone stays
Hello Blender community!
I have a problem during a 3D animation: I am using "Transparent BSDF" and "Mix Shader" to make some components of my assembly disappear.
Anyway when they ...
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how to get rid of shadow/dark artifacts on object?
I am trying to render a very high resolution mesh with an image texture applied.
I don't know why, but I end up with all these black faces or shadow artifacts (not sure what they are).
Using cycles, ...
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cycles shadow issue, one object in the scene is way darker than it should
In my scene, one of the objects get's darker than the others, in the picture, the arms of the model should be the same color than the legs, the same materials are applied. The problem only occurs in ...
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How to render semi-transparent shadows on a shadow catcher?
Hi I'm trying to render a shadow for a 2D sprite. I want it to be semi-transparent. I have a shadow-catcher plane, the object is invisible for the camera and my rendering engine is Cycles. However, ...
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Shadow from unknown source on my object
I'm new to Blender and still trying to figure a lot of stuff out.
I wanted to make some cloudy miso soup, so I added a noisy image texture to the soup object. There's a curved shadow on the soup that ...
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Pixelated shadows and obvious seams when rendering
whatever I do, I keep getting these annoying shading lines when I render. my GPU is an rtx2070 super and I'm using OptiX render settings.
I was editing an old project and had to import the fbx to a ...
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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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Image on plane as particle hairs - Shadow problem
I'm trying to create grass by using images on a plane and then using those in a hair particle system. However in some areas I'm seeing the shadow from the plane instead of the grass itself.
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Weird shadow stripes in workbench - glitch
I think this should be considered a bug.
If you take a look at the screenshot, you'll see dark stripes going across the viewport. They only appear with shadows enabled in Workbench.
The level of ...
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Shader vs. Vector Node - not producing any shadows for displaced geometry
TL;DR: Why are shadows showing when rendering displaced geometry with Shader-Nodes but not with Vector-Nodes?
I have created a super simple shader via node setup. I'm using Cycles, and the material ...
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Help with lighting setup
The following screenshot is a photoshop mockup and basically I just want to recreate it in blender to have some more control over it.
So far (I'm really new to blender) it's looking not that bad.
The ...
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Material with full transmission still casts dark shadows, how do I avoid that? (Cycles render)
(I'm using cycles render)
I'm trying to create the look of 'essential oil' blobs on a surface.
I want the oil to look very clear, only slightly colored.
It looks how I want when the blobs are not on a ...
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Light gives weird black spots in cycles render
I have some objects with weird black spots in cycles render, in rendered view and in the final render. I realize that it has something to do with light because, when I go to the sun settings and ...
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background and shadows became solid black
in render window everything is fine but when i save it in any format like png , jpg ect. shadow and background colour become black. I didnt change anythind and i tried it with default cube. Screenshot ...
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Shadows flickering in Eevee animation
I'm trying to render a 10 second, 30 FPS character turntable in Eevee:
The scene has two lights - a spotlight and a sun with disabled shadow casting, at a nearly 90 degree angle from each other. The ...
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Shading issues with boolean
Before you leave a comment, I know this is a common issue, but I have tried all of the solutions I have found. With that being said, I'm modelling a bishop as part of one of my first projects. I'm ...
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Coffee cup looks foggy after rendering
I’m following BlenderGuru’s donut tutorial, and right now I am modeling the coffee cup. The problem is that the cup looks kind of foggy after rendering (see attached screenshot). There’s a weird black-...
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How could I remove these jagged shadows?
I tried removing these jagged shadows with the Shadow Terminator Offset slider in Blender 2.90 but they don't go away even if I crank it at 1, plus I'm getting horrible dark shadows all over the place ...
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Recreating Minecraft-like Voxel Lighting in Eevee or Cycles
I've ported the model of a world from the game Minecraft into Blender to transfer to another game engine altogether, however I can't seem to properly recreate the in-game lighting for baking.
From ...
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How to cast object shadow only and mask the shadow of the object with the object?
I have an object sitting (clipping a bit) on the plane. I can achieve the shadow only via the node tree. But I want the object itself to mask the shadow. I mocked up what I want in photoshop for ...
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How do I make the object not cast a shadow but also not miss the shadow of another object?
How do I make the object not cast a shadow but also not miss the shadow of another object?
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Light leaks in shadows
This happens all of the time, even with other modeling programs (UModeller and Probuilder). I suspect it is a Unity problem, and I have asked there, as well. I have checked all seams, especially ...
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unwanted shadow changes in eevee
In the pictures you can see on the blue logo shadow change.
What can i do so my shadows are consistent throughout multiple frames ?
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Why are the shadows disappearing for a few frames
In this portion of a longer animation, the shadows suddenly disappear for a few frames then reappear.
This doesn't happen when I scrub thru the Timeline in the 3D window, only in the Render. I ...
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Adding curved shape to box with seamless shading?
Suppose I have an empty box, and I want to add a bowl shaped surface starting partway down. See the image below, showing cross section of the box and the annotation depicting what the bowl shape ...
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Problem with shadows when filling faces in edit mode
I've been working in blender in edit mode and I think I've accidentally activated some sort of feature with a shortcut or something.
Now every time I create a new face in edit mode, it gives that face ...
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Shadows are green, light or intense
I am following BlenderGuru's tutorial on Blender, the donut, and everything has been fine except for this. First, I noticed in medium-light renders a greenish hue or tone. I had the donut laying on a ...
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When I open my project all shadows have gone
I am using blender 2.9 am creating a room with chocofur model manager for furniture, etc, it looked nice with all the shadows and lighting but I have saved it every step of the way, but now when I ...
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Shadows and Reflections
I am trying to make this
But I am stuck on this image
None of my walls or other materials are picking up the white emission and the back of the corridor is getting light from somewhere. Any ideas in ...
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Identical (but smaller) scenes render a slightly different image
I am experimenting around and trying to create an "inception" effect. Basically, a cube splits into several smaller ones and breaks apart, while the camera zooms into one of the smaller ...
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How to render shadows only in 2.91
I have finished a building, and I'd like to render it in Cycles:
As it is with shadows: I know how to do it. I've done it and it looks great.
As it is without shadows: I know how to do it, I just ...
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Weird Shadows on my donut cycles render
I'm new to blender and I'm following this donut tutorial, but when I render in cycles I get these weird rectangular shadows and I can't fix them. I get them in Eevee too
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Black patches appear on baked Normal Map
I baked a normal map for my 3D model, but it seems it has some shading issues like black patches with sharp margin and different shades of grey on the two sides of a seam, there is a black patch under ...
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Why is my Point Light not creating shadows?
I cannot get the shadows to work for this coin. The Power is at 1000000, and the radius is 0.1. I've tried moving the light source, changing the radius, changing the power amount. Nothing has worked ...
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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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When I use boolean modifier, appear weird shadow (I even dont know it's shadow or not though)
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▼before
▼after using boolean modifier
It looks like shadow, but when I use light, this black line doesnt move. So it's not shadow I think.
I need to remove this weird line.
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Why are shadows not appearing?
Why are my shadows not appearing? I did the lever and slight shadows appeared, but I can't figure out why the piston doesn't have any shadows..... I'm using a spot light with a ton of watts and the bg ...
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Minimum amount of illumination in Cycles?
I'm rendering a satellite in orbit of the Earth for a client. The sun is head-on so there is nothing to light the back of the satellite. Since this doesn't look great and more of the satellite should ...
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Why isn't the shadow being rendered?
I've used this tutorial to do a toon shader:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJTEJKQ0lYw
I have this in my shading tab:
The shading appears just fine in the Material Preview (although mind that for ...
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How to make a plane with no color changes regardless of lighting conditions and have shadows cast on it?
I wanted to ask how to have the material of a plane be consistent or on par with the color value given to it regardless of lighting conditions and have shadows cast onto it on render? The image will ...
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Unwanted Shadow below water in eevee
I used pure toon water addon to make a river and put rock and fish below. However, I find there is unwanted small black spot (I believe it is shadow). Is it due to lighting issue, or others? Could ...
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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....
