Questions tagged [shadows]
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Striped Shadows on EEVEE
When my camera is looking at a surface at an angle, the shadows begin to look stripped. I have tried changing shadow settings but that has not helped. The stripped shadows have also appeared when I ...
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Bad shading on icosphere set to smooth
I used an icosphere to model a part of a building, I have autosmooth enabled with custom sharp edges but I can't fix the bad shading. In Eevee it looks perfect, but in cycles I get weird shading that ...
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My model is not reflecting any light / looks dark
In the image I have 2 objects, the only difference between the two is that the one on the right is fully unwrapped while the one on the left is the default with no changes safe for the texture to ...
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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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Transparent shadow not appearing in viewer node
I am trying to create a transparent shadow using the compositor in blender 2.8, i used a image invert and viewer node to get rid of the white portion of the image, but the changed image wont show up ...
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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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how to remove the ugly shadow as shows in that photo? [duplicate]
I trying to put smooth shadow on my final render view like you you can see on the right.
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How to make a shadless material that would allow shadows? [duplicate]
I've been successful to achieve shade less material in Blender by following set up:
but is there any way we can allow these materials to cast shadows? Thanks.
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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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How to get shadows information in cycles
I have a WIP looking like this
Now I want to do something about a background and I want to do it in a similar halftone style. But when I'm applying it the same way as I did on the models, the dots ...
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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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Cycles: How can I make a plane both emmissive and transparent?
I have the following situation:
I have a scene lighted by a "sun" lamp that gives me good sharp shadows. But I also want to have a large plane with an emissive material placed above the scene to ...
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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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Join two parts of object faces to match shadow [duplicate]
What do i have to do to join highlighted group of faces with others, so shadow will be the same when joined. All faces are already part of same object (Joined them via Ctrl + J). I tried merging them ...
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Blender eevee emission shadows [duplicate]
So still kinda new to blender, and decided to try out 2.8 because of eevee. But I seem to be doing something wrong. Was trying to figure out why the emission wasn't showing a shadow by itself on the ...
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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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How to disable this shadow? [duplicate]
the shadow is allways to the right and I dont know why it is there.
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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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Some shadows are too sharp in the render [duplicate]
do you know what is causing this type of shadows? Does it have something to do with the way the mesh is?
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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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Use baked shadows on separate mesh?
I have an architectural model with a shadow map on a separate mesh, that is positioned very close on top of the first one. The shadow map is only for two rooms of the interior and the uv layout is ...
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Weird shadows when adding normal map [duplicate]
can someone explain to me how i got these weird shadows and how to get rid of them?
And another problem, when I use a normal map in the princepled shader it's not working and affecting the color, ...
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Blender render GLSL shadow problem
i am fairly new to blender. I try to make something like this and using something call GLSL.
However, In my version, There is some problem in the shadow. The shadow is just a rectangle... What kind ...
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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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Shadows not Cast
It's really simple: Shadows won't be cast. I checked the light source to cast shadows, but they aren't cast.
I want a text to cast shadows. I want to place the text on a surface within some video ...
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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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Is it possible to render an object's "ground shadows" on a separate layer in Blender Render? [duplicate]
Lately I've been trying to look for any tutorials on how to make "shadow catcher" planes in Blender Render because I need to render ground shadows on a separate layer. However it seems every tutorial ...
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Normals seem to be correct but dark spots still appear [duplicate]
With a lot of the models I have been importing from a game there are dark spots in some places. I removed doubles already and recalculated normals, but I still get this when rendering:
The dark spots ...
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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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Cycles single side floor problem
I have this strange shadow behave on render in Cycles. Simple one side floor is rendered correctly if Z location is > 3cm. There isn't any other geometry and no overlaping with walls.
I'm new in ...
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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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Strange shading after running python script
I've written a pretty complicated script which chops up, joins and transforms parts of 1 giant 'world' mesh for better handling in a game engine.
It all works as I'd expect, except for one thing...
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Internal render, emit material and shadows [duplicate]
How to adjust the drop shadow when the scene is illuminated by object with emit material
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Why I got a bad result image background shadow?
I am making this model but I got a bad final image when I used background and casted shadow on it. I think that I did everything well in materials and scene nodes. I attached blender file. that nodes ...
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Light emitting planes casting shadows
I'm trying to light a bottle with several light emitting planes. In front of those planes I have planes with SSS to get diffused light. I switched off shadow and camera for those objects, but still ...
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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 ...
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Posterized shadow pass in Cycles?
I rendered a shadow pass for my scene but unfortunately it is coming out a little odd compared to what I was hoping for. It looks posterized. Is there a way to fix this? I was looking for more of a ...
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Shadow Catcher in cycles problem
I've asked around and people have told me that this tutorial should allow me to do what I want to do. I've followed the steps outlined, however I am not getting the result I want.
My first layer ...
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