Questions tagged [shadows]
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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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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 have a light that casts no shadows?
Is it possible to light an object from three locations using emitters but only allow two of those emitters to cast a shadow from the object? I have an emitter from above, right and left. However, I do ...
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colored shadows for transparent objects with shadow catcher
I'm rendering a scene in cycles with partially transparent objects and I would like to use shadow catcher to composite the objects and their shadows onto a perfectly white background.
Normally these ...
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Jagged shadow with custom toon shader
I'm trying to render (using EEVEE) a couple of objects with very simple toon shaders but I can't get the shadows right. I want hard shadows but right now they are all weird-shaped.
Here is what I ...
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How do I darken object shadow?
I created a scene using HDRI in which an airdrop is there on ground but airdrop shadow is not visible which makes it looks unreal. I've used a shadow catcher and it is even having particle system to ...
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Make procedural pixelated shadow
I have a node group, that make texture of an object look like low-poly pixel perfect (was taken from here).
Shadow look normal, but if it possible, i want to "snap" it on the surface of ...
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Strange shadows in Eevee orthographic camera
If I use Cicles engine everything looks great (obviously). I try Eevee engine with perspective camera mode, and result also fine. But I need ortho projection. If I switch to Eevee + orthographical ...
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When I add environment texture to world node object shadow disappears
When I add environment texture to world node my object shadow disappear.
Do I need to turn off background strength?
I want to make my object to look like background so I lost shadow that I wanted
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Is it possible to capture a shadow on an emissive plane?
I understand the absurdity of my question, but I'm curious to know if it is possible to do this (On Cycles, and Eevee)
Basically, the plane captures the shadow, if the material is not emissive.
But I ...
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Smooth Shading artifacts on low poly model [duplicate]
So when I'm extruding inwards, there comes this weird shadow.
But it's only when in smooth shading, if I put the object to flat shading it looks fine.
There isn't any modifications and I tried the ...
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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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How to get a crisp shadow from object using a spot light?
I am trying to get a crisp shadow from an object in blender using the spot light. I've noticed I can get that with a sun light, but I specifically need to use a spot light for what I am trying to do, ...
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How to make furrows darker?
Another day of the 3D artist. How to make furrows darker?
is it possible to make an analogue of "ambient occlusion" using only the Shader Editor? The gradient texture doesn't work as I ...
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Hard shadows after render (cycles & eevee) V2.92
Been in Blender for one year, self-taught.
The shadows after render become blackened and show up where they have no business being.
The scene has a swinging light above as well as 3 graph-generated ...
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Eevee screen space refraction weird black shadow
I noticed there's a weird second shadow in a plane with screen space refraction in Eevee. How to remove that weird duplicated shadow?
Weird duplicate shadow in Eevee:
Correct result in Cycles:
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Jagged and ugly Shadows in Eevee
I’ve created a low-poly stylized tree in Blender 2.8 and rendered it with Eevee. Some of the shadows on the leaves are very jagged and quite ugly.
The entire scene is simply a camera, a sun light ...
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The textures on my model are too dark
This may have been said already, or really simple to fix, but I've searched for 30 mins and found nothing
My issue is that every time I try to texture my model it turns nearly completely black.
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I am unable to get rid of some persisting shadows when the object is transparent. What am I missing?
I'm attempting to animate the Alpha value of a basic material using the Principle BSFD surface. However, I've noticed some strange shadows persisting, and I'm unsure how to eliminate them. The Blend ...
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Smoother shadows in Blender 2.8 (EEVEE)
So recently I've been really diving into Blender's 2.8 beta, and most importantly EEVEE render engine, and I can't seem to get around these nasty looking shadows. is there a feature I'm missing?
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Clear reflection on floor surface (beginner)
Im aiming for the effect like this (Mint logo reflection)
but my reflections are blurred and grainy
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How to increase shadow strength in Shadow Catcher?
I am using the New Shadow Catcher from Blender 2.79 and would like to know how do I leave the most intense shadows? I'm trying to adapt my model, as close as possible to the background image...
This ...
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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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Why is part of object's shadow sliced?
The object's shadow appears cut when it's moved over certain areas (i'm using blender game engine and GLSL shadows). I've tried flipping faces and that doesn't seem to be the problem.
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Eevee one light creats multiple shadows
I have one light source and it creats 4 shadows in Eevee. The light is in the back of the model so, where are the others coming from? And there is one that is only the shadow of the hair and not the ...
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Weird blotchy shadows in blender cycles (denoising)
I have an interior scene with a window opening, a portal light in the window and an area light acting as sun light. I want to achieve this dramatic cinematic feeling without interior spot lights apart ...
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Make eevee shadows darker?
Ok I’m trying to get darker, noticeable shadows in eevee, yet I’m barely getting anything, even with contact shadows on:
What can I change?
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Smoke Domain casts grayish box
First of all, I'm new to the forum so please forgive me any mistakes (also in my english).
Setup: I'm currently rendering a Smoke simulation in Cycles, for which I've also setup a ground and wall ...
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Is there a way to keep the shadow but turn off the light in EEVEE render
I've set up an animation with a object rotating. I've added one point light which is casting a shadow. I like the softness of the shadow, but it's also making my object more brighter. My Scene has ...
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Adding Shadows to Hair Particle Emitter
I've been using Grass Essentials for grass in my scene, but I've recently noticed that the grass isn't casting shadows. I've added a bright light to amplify the issue below. The first image is from ...
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Why do the shadows on this detail normal map look so crunched?
wondering if this is a genuine issue, or if I'm just going insane. So, I wanted to try creating some normal maps from sculpted skin details (specifically goosebumps). Booted up a multires modifier, ...
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Object casting duplicated shadows on different objects
I'm inserting few objects in blender after doing motion tracking on a video.
There's a plane that represents the floor (set as shadow catcher) and then, as you can see in the image there's a sort of ...
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Stereo EEVEE shadows not the same between Left & Right frames [closed]
I have a scene setup with EEVEE which renders a stereo pair of Left and Right images. The scene uses area lights with soft shadows. After the render, the shadows in the Left and Right images do not ...
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How could I make a VDB volume not cast shadows?
I imported a VDB volume from Houdini into Blender 2.92 and it creates some weird shadows. How could I make it not cast any shadows? I went into Visibility > Ray Tracing but there's no Shadow ...
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How can I make grease pencil be effected by shadow?
I'm using grease pencil in surface draw mode to make my scene look painted, but I'm not sure how to make grease pencil respond to shadowing. I know grease pencil can't cast shadows, so I set my ...
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How to generate realistic shadows on a shadowcatcher of a single object at a low elevation angle?
I've been working on a Blender model (using Blender 2.79, but I've also tested in 2.91.2 and got the same result) with the goal of producing a realistic shadow image for an airplane from any angle. I'...
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Odd shadow cutout
I'm very new to Blender (10 hours in!), and I'm coming across a problem I haven't been able to successfully google.
I have an object casting a shadow on a plane. I'm using an Area light pointing ...
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How do I stop eevee shadows changing shape each frame?
I am doing an animation in eevee with one spot light, volumetric fog, the camera and light moving together over different models/objects..
My problem is each time it changes frame all the objects ...
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Smoke is not casting shadows in Eevee
Smoke is not casting shadows in Eevee render.
The blend file is given below.
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Is it posible to get the coordinates of the shadow from its rendering?
I need to know the volume of the shadow cast by an object by a light or at least the coordinates of the contour of the shadow in the floor. I thought that it would be possible to get the coordinates ...
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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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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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Table Lamp effect gone really bad on Eevee
Blender 2.93, so basically i made a simple table lamp and assigned the material translucency, but the problem is that inside of it is dark, outside is bright, but the light doesnt go through the ...
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Creating curved grid with triangle windows
How to model curved grid with triangle windows and keep it smooth? I tried to model everything and then snap (project) it to main mesh, but it causes a lot of wird shading at corners.
The mesh's on ...
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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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How could you avoid multiple shadows when using multiple light sources?
I was wondering how you could avoid multiple shadows when using multiple light sources. I know that you can simply uncheck the "cast shadow" on the lights that you won't making shadows but ...
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How to make an object only cast a shadow but be invisible in a View Layer?
This may be something very simple but I actually tried a bunch of things without any success.
I am looking or a setup that allows me to do this in 2.8+.
Let's say I have a cube sitting on a plane and ...
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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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What causes black shading errors?
As the picture shows, the bottom part of the hospital is covered with shadow and I don't know why. The face normals are not flipped. This happens in both solid view and rendered view.
What causes ...
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Light doesn't show in viewport
I followed a YouTube tutorial and now have problem with lighting.
I can't see it on my model. Dimension on Z axis is 0.75, so model isn't big. I've tried to increase intensity, it didn't help.
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