Questions tagged [shadows]
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Selective ray visibility
In the Object Properties tab I can choose the ray visibility of that object.
In other words I can choose if that object is visible on camera, if it casts shadows on diffuse shaders, on glossy shaders, ...
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Global disabling of shadows in Cycles
I am using daily builds of 2.79 version and can't find Shadows checkbox that has been here some versions ago:
Ways of doing it on per-object basis are not acceptable, need single-click solution like ...
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Transparent shadow catcher under HDRI lighting in Cycles?
This question and its answers give nice ways of creating plane shadow catchers that make the CG objects "interact" with the HDRI world.
My question is very similar, but different in the sense that I ...
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Blender internal - pure white plane with shadows/gloss
I'm trying to do something like this in Blender internal renderer:
Here are some Cycles-solution using, which I'm trying to replicate in Internal:
How do I make a pure white plane that receives ...
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Internal Render with colored shadow pass
Is this normal to have colored shadow pass if I have Z-transparent material with disabled receiving of shadows? I thought it should be just white in this case.
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Light object evenly and have a transparent or solid background
I am trying to generate a 2d image dataset form a 3d model rendered in Blender. I want to randomize the orientation of the object, the lightning and a background image.
My idea to randomize the ...
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Yafaray: Shadow-catcher
I have tracked footage in blender and placed a tank in the scene. To get more realistic results, I switched over to Yafaray v3 render after setting up the tracking scene.
It seems that Yafaray can'...
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Keep texture shadeless, but receive shadows?
I'm working on a VFX shot where I have created a clean plate that is motion tracked to go over a store sign. I made some 3D text to put in its place, but because the clean plate is shadeless, the text ...
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How to connect flat and tilted edges properly?
I create a mesh with this specific pattern and I need to connect this two edges without causing shading issue (img 1). If I just fill them with F key the shading doesn't work properly because the ...
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How to make "fuzzy" snow particle material in Eevee?
I'm trying to make a nighttime blizzard snowstorm scene with particles and wind, but I'm currently having trouble getting the particle material to render in a realistic way.
I followed this tutorial: ...
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Shadows from the background (EEVEE) [duplicate]
Can the background (environment map) generate soft shadows in the EEVEE renderer?
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The "Shadow" option is not available in "Show Layer Properties" (Blender 3.5)
When I turn on Cycles to render, I have no "Shadows" option in "Show Layer Properties" (Passes > Light > Other > ...), but in the video tutorial everything works perfectly....
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Turn off shadows cast onto Backdrop Image
Is there a way to turn off "Shadow Catcher" for a backdrop image so no shadows are cast onto the image?
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Help with Shadow(s) in Blender (Cycles)
Hello Blender community,
I ran into a problem.... What I want is to exclude the shadow that is cast by object 1on object 3. But the shadow from object 1 on object 2 must remain. How do I Fix this ...
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Fixing really ugly shadows
I'm quite new to Blender. I try to create a cloth model but the shadows that I get are really weird and ugly. I tried to use a "Subdivision Surface" modifier but it doesn't help. Does ...
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How to create a strong shadow without a bright light source?
This is my first post that I have done so I will try my best to explain my problem. Additionally, I am not an expert at lighting but I have a decent amount of knowledge to know the basics.
I am ...
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Same Shadows Remaining on Duplicated Object
I'm new on blender 2.93 on Windows 7 64-bit and it is amazing! But i was wondering what causes this shadow issue? whether i use array modifier or straight out duplicate the road object and lay it side ...
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Geometry nodes weird shadow
I created a setup to generate simple tents using geometry nodes. The problem is that if I set "shade smooth" something weird happens with the shadows (regardless of wether I use cycles or ...
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Is there a way to do Stencil Shadows in Blender?
Is There a way to do Stencil Shadows (Stencil buffer) in blender ? or at least a way to cast texture in a shape of seperate mesh
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Is it possible to remove a baked shadow from a texture using Blender?
I have this texture from a game that I'm trying to mod and i was wondering if it's possible to remove the baked shadow on the pants using compositor or another method on blender
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How do I make shadows through glass and liquid more transparent and less opaque?
Andrew's glass:
My glass:
Light paths settings: None of these seem to change the shadow (or rather the cup's?) see through
What settings can I possibly fiddle with? the more the merrier! :)
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How to remove shadows appearing inside material?
I've been following a tutorial on geometry nodes, which uses gumdrops and sugar for context. The geometry node set up for the gum drop is:
For the material of the gum drop I used the following shader ...
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I am getting strange shadows when using hair cards and cycles
I am getting strange shadows when adding view my hair cards in Cycles. I think it occurs when the hair cards are overlapping but im not sure. Anyone knows if there is a fix?
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EVEE Lighting and Volume Scatter showing through walls
I have a scene set up in EVEE with an object with a volume scatter material and a light on the outside. The light should only be coming through a window but there is volume being illuminated along the ...
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How can I solve this shadow problem?
Every shadow is working well until I separate the objects, pictures:
My method when separating:
select faces on the mesh
inset faces a little bit
select the inner faces
separate it from the original ...
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how to make the shadows in Cycles stronger from the grid table lamp
Hope someone could help me. I have modelled table lamp the mesh is totally a grid i need to make render result with strong dropped shadow from the light point inside the mesh, the problem the in the ...
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Composite two renders into one image
I am looking to produce an image like this:
Where there are two objects, with one object casting a shadow on the second object. The catch is that I do not want to create this by rendering two objects ...
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How can I remove shading on a plane but still allow shadows from other objects to be cast on to the pane?
I have objects on top of an 'Images as Plane' plane and I'd like it to not have any shading/gradients in lighting, so it looks like it would if I opened the image in an image viewer with maximum ...
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Viewport shading option "shadow" not displaying shadow
I'm trying to get the viewport to render shadows to help visualize depth when working in an orthogrpahic view. I toggle the shadows option in the viewport shading menu, but it seems like the only ...
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What causes this very dark areas, that can't be shadows?
I'm modelling an indoor scene, but I'm getting these weird shadow-like areas. They can't be shadows though, as they are way too dark and move with my viewports position.
I checked my normals, but they ...
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Missing Settings on Light Point Menu
I am new to blender, trying to edit light and shadow parameters. I came across the following.
I had added a light point to the workspace. When I click on it (the light point object), the menu on the ...
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Is there a way to disable self-cast shadows on grass (particles,) but still have grass receive shadows from other objects?
Hello persons, so I'm trying to achive ghibli or breath of the wild style grass using only generated texture nodes, (ie not image textures, math) and that much is turning out okay. However the issue I'...
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How to make the shading the same across all faces?
Hello I'm new to Blender and I'm trying to achieve a look similar to Pokemon Snap on the N64. Mostly just playing around with some things but something I can't seem to get right is the lighting / ...
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Eevee - Baking soft shadows
I have a question about soft shadow option in eevee. Is there a way to bake them in eevee?
What is a problem - when I turn on soft shadow option it instances light depending on it size, and it looks ...
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baking lighting into a texture in Eevee?
Ive searched all over google and all i can find is videos from 2015 or unanswered questions, so if any of you could help, id be really thankfull.
I want to bake some shadows into a pretty simple ...
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Object does cast shadow, but doesn't get physically darker
I have modelled a stool, and textured it, however, when a light it shone onto the object, it casts a shadow as intended but the object itself doesn't get darker.
Here is a file with the stool I've ...
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How to have sharp shadows in cycles with HDRI
Can you please tell me how to have sharp shadows in cycles with an hdri environnement texture, but without changing the lighting parameter of the hdri texture ?
For example in the picture below, I've ...
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Remove drop shadow from label?
I'm completely new to blender, I'm trying to create a simple label for a product as an exercise.
When I use the shrinkwrap modifier to the face of the object in Cycles I get a drop shadow that doesn'...
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"Shadow" Option isnt showing in the Lightning Settings
Im using the latest Blender version and if I wanna configure my shadow options it doesnt show where its supposed to be as you can see in the picture. I remember thats its been working in the past so ...
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shadows on faces with no source
I'm getting some weird shadows on my mesh that I can't figure out how to remove. It appears they don't have any natural reason for being there as they are along straight edges and on faces.
I've ...
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No shadows with Eevee, no render with cycles
This is my first time using blender in a very long time and I'm trying to make a render of a board game I'm working on. I believe I have everything set up correctly but when rendering with Eevee don't ...
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Shadows settings not showing on my light
So I'm watching Blender Guru on the donut stuff on Blender 2.8 and he clicks on his light but my settings aren't the same as his.
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Why my object has coloured shadow
Hi. I just started Blender two days ago. And I'm doing tutorials of Blender Guru.
My question is that why my object has coloured shadow?
Can you tell me why and how to make it black shadow?
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Shadows follow topology too well [duplicate]
I sculpted a kind of awful model and wanted to make a little scene out of it. After retopologizing and rigging, frames from my animation look like this:
The JPEG compression is pretty bad (sorry, my ...
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Why is sun lamp not projecting in parallel... and how to make faded shadows?
I'm using Blender's Internal Renderer....I have some flag shapes, with a sun lamp casting shadows. (see pic) But the sun lamp is not throwing parallel shadows on to the white plane behind it. Why? Is ...
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Sun is not casting shadows
I am at the very beginning of my blender journey, so dont judge me xD
i have tried this very basic model of a apartment like room.
I am using eevee and i have 2 questions.
First im wondering why my ...
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How can i reduce the size of my shadows?
I am lighting my scene with an spherical environment map. As you can see in the image below, the shadows casted on my shadow catcher are way too big. How can i change this?
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Blender 2.8 Evee - weird Shadow/Outline?
On any other object shadows and outlines look soft and normal. Why is it that this object has these black outlines? And on the bottom there are white outlines.
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Bump map causes strange shading [duplicate]
What is causing this strange shading when adding bump/normal maps?
This happens in the viewport and the final render.
See image below were the sun transitions into shadow.
It should be more smooth.
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Using shadows as texture masks?
I am attempting to make an environment that has hand-painted shadows in the base color texture. This would give me more artistic control over how the shadows are cast. However, I would also like ...
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