Questions tagged [shadows]
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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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Shadow panel missing from Render Properties
It's been a couple of days since I installed the latest version of Blender and in the Render Properties I cannot see the Shadow Panel in order to increase the shadows' quality.
I searched in the ...
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Lights And Shadow Animation, lowering the opacity of a shadow
I'm doing an animation using EEVEE render,I set up 2 lights to my scene. Once the animation is exported, the drop shadow doesn't seem to intense. The reflections I like, giving it a realistic glare as ...
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Black patch in cycles render
I have been trying to remove this black patch for some time now but got no lead. I surfed the internet but couldn't find a thing about this. Please help!
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Bad quality rendereing videos with Eevee
I'm trying to render a video with Eevee but I'm getting a really bad video quality.
When I render an image it looks perfect, everything looks smooth: https://i.stack.imgur.com/PAyhR.jpg
But when I ...
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How to enable shadows on glossy surface with enviromental mapping?
So I am a noob in blender.. but scene is in attachment.
As you can see, I dont get any hard shadows. With Sun size 0.062. How can I re-enable hard shadows so they are visible or what shader can I use ...
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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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Why the color became bright after rendering?
Would you tell me how can I fix it?
The first image is screenshot of render preview and the second one is after rendering. As you can see, it became bright after rendering.
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Transparent material looks different in render/camera than in preview in Eevee
I've seen a few different questions with similar problems on here but none of the solutions appear to work for/apply to my issue. This one seems closest to the problem I'm having, but I don't have a ...
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HDRI Renders in preview but not in final render
I am having an issue with using an HDRI environmental image to light an indoor scene. It was working correctly when all of the sudden the shadows stopped showing in the render.
I don't recall doing ...
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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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I believe this shadow on the glass material is not normal, it follows my camera creating a weird effect, please help me fix it!
So basicly when I move the camera I get these shadows on the windows ( glass material).
The shadows follow the camera angle and i would like to remove them or fix them.
Im using Eevee. The shadows ...
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Smooth shadows between two close objects
Is it possible to avoid this shadow break without merging objects and their meshes? I really don't want to, because it's much easier to work with parts, than one big mesh.
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weird shading at center
im trying to follow blenderguru's anvil tutorial series but im getting some weird shading at the center. ive noticed in his video the shading is bad just until the moment he gets rid of the curve in ...
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Object shadows having lines doubled
The shadows of the objects seems to be doubling up and even when moving the object around it flickers.
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Weirtd shading artefact?
I have this weird (dark) shading (MatCap) on my model. I wonder what is wrong. The face normals seem to be correct.
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Why does the difference Boolean not work with high subdivision levels?
I am trying to use the difference Boolean modifier to remove a smooth curved shape from another smooth curved shape, but Blender will only do it when the subdivisions are so low that the quality is ...
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No Shadows with HDRI Render
Even though the 3D Viewport suggests that shadows should be visible (though they might be blurry), I don't get any shadows in the render:
As can be seen, some faint shadows are there, but none in the ...
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Darken a shadow on a shadow catcher without changing the light on the object casting it? (Blender Cycles 2.81)
I am making a very short video in which a miniature dalek model (https://www.blendswap.com/blend/6326) goes around my table, and I made a shadow catcher plane, and I wanted to make the shadow brighter ...
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When I apply a material objects loses self shadow
When I apply a material in Blender the objects lose self shadow.
Not the shadow it casts but on its back faces, if that makes sense.
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How to get light and shadows to overlay certain colors?
I'm working on a 3D style that emulates my illustration style. Example:
I'm trying to figure out how to make shadows apply a purple shade (mulitply) and a yellow for highlights (add). I know the Mix ...
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There's a strange shadow on the skydome (Blender 2.8, Eevee)
First one is the skydome in other CG software however, in blender, there's a strange shadow. How can I fix it?
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Weird Shadows In Render And Material Doesnt Show Up As Expected
When I render the object, the shadows are looking weird. Also, I expect the outer part of the cable to look like shiny metal, but it is not what I expect.
Can someone please tell me if there is any ...
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How can I remove shadows from sides of the objects?
On the sides of certain objects, it would show these ugly shadows on the side. I have tried to disable the shadow option from certain properties but they did nothing. If there is any advice or ...
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Eevee shadows in Blender 2.81 are worse than in 2.80?
I discovered that shadows in 2.81 look noticeably different or even worse than in 2.80. Both have soft shadows enabled.
Here you can see the project in which I discovered it: there is this big flat ...
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Only shadow been rendered
I may have some wrong setting in my rendering, but i cannot find it out.
No material is missing, I copied this mesh from one of my other project, it works fine, but working weirdly in this one.
Here ...
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Why does only shadow ray from light path node work in this material setup?
This is initial setup. Red plane and green cube is a single object, red plane has flipped normal (directed inside cube). Another plane is half glossy half diffuse material:
It becomes interesting... ...
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Rendering shadows
When rendering scene the shadows render to a different layer. How do I combine them? Do I have to composite them together in an image editor?
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Why are my faces different colors with the same material on them?
I don't know why this is happening is it because of the light? Something new with how lights/shadows work in 2.8? This happend on the 2.8 Candidate 1 and 2. I have plane with emission as light in this ...
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problems with shadows glitching in Raytrace animation renders
id be appreciative of some help with this issue. I am rendering out a simple building walkthrough and all of my shadows keep glitching and changing direction. Ive attached an example. I am rendering ...
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Why are squares appearing on my model in Eevee?
I created a lighting scene in blender 2.8. with a plane as the background.
For now I hid my objects because they are not the problem here. And I also like the positions of the lights.
While rendering ...
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Motion Tracking Invisible Object Not Doing Its work properly
Okay, I am not very good in the motion tracking sector, but basically, the shadows are very weak and I have no idea on how to change that, they are so weak to the point of being invisible at some ...
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Cycles Plane With Equal Shading On Both Sides
I made some grass, but with the lighting I am using one side is dark because there is no light shining on it, so I want it to have no shading, but the problem is I still want it to change colors with ...
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Certain shadows don't appear while playing in BGE
I can't get certain shadows to show in BGE. I have the correct lighting with the sun and hemi lamps.
When I'm editing in BGE, all the shadows show like I want.
But when I press p to play, all ...
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Direction of shadows from my sun
Hi I have a scene with a fence as the single mesh. I have a HDRI as an environment texture and a sun lamp, to add some colour to my light. But the shadows from my fence don't point in relation to my ...
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Shading Render Not Present In 3D View
back again with my sword :D
I've figured out rendering and everything thanks to you guys but this time I'm asking about why there seems to be a shadow that I don't think should be present when ...
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SFM lighting in blender
So I make thumbnails for youtubers, and one of my clients REALLY likes the look of SFM, I think that SFM is hard to work with and get anything done in. Is there anybody that knows how to make blenders ...
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Discrepancy Between Camera View and Rendering
Trying to render an image of a protein in blender, and finding that the rendered image has weird shadows on it, when these are not visible in camera view, as per the image below.
Any idea why this ...
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Shadow Catcher + Free Style External Contour
I want to have External Contour outlined from my scene, except for the ground, which is a shadow catcher.
How can I achieve this?
Here is the problem:
Because of the ground, the bottom contour of ...
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How do I exclude an object from AO in Blender Cycles?
I have a scene where black text is on a gray surface. With AO, this makes the text are to read. I want to eliminate AO on the gray surface so I can see the black text, but keep it in other details ...
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The shade is gritty
Reading a pre-made file into Blender and rendering, the shadow portion is grainy like this.
Also, the vicinity of the ceiling becomes white and the pillar lines disappear.
I want to make the shade ...
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Camera Tracking Shadow
I was following this tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVPcT0dJmoY&t=346s
which is a bit old but I was able to get it through the camera tracking and to the point of adding 3d objects to ...
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Why is my object not rendering with details?
I've made a toothpaste tube and lid, and i've gone through all the settings I know about (i'm still getting used to blender). For some reason the details are washed out in the render and I don't know ...
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Lights shadow looks odd
I once again am in need of some help. I am using a spot light to light the side of a ship because I will be using a mask to have a digital display of a phone. The light looks extremely odd and ...
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Restrict hdri from casting shadows
Is there any way to stop the hdri from casting shadows ? I only want the reflection/light.
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shadow map for second life not working correctly
so I have a object in blender and im trying to create a shadow map for it
for some reason the shadowmap is all wrong and when uploading the image to the game it is ruined
Any ideas as to why this ...
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How i can remove shadow from glossy metallic?
On my wooden box i have glossy and metallic materials and i want to get rid of this blue tire shadow on the wooden box without loosing the glossy and metallic materials.
When i cut off glossy or ...
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Can no longer bake shadows to my plane's texture, coming out white
I'm pretty new to blender and working on my first little project. I've been baking shadows to 1024p textures on my floor plane, and all was working correctly. But now after booting up the program ...
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How to turn off shadows?
I have this 3D model which I imported into blender and the texture is covered by shadows and darkness, how do I turn it off or make it less shadowy?
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Smoke Domain casts a large shadow
I am making an animation in cycles render where there is a smoking object over a desert. There is a large dark spot(which is not the smoke) on the object below. Placing a light source near it helps ...
