Questions tagged [world]
For questions pertaining to the appearance or settings of the World in Blender - meaning the environment you see as a background in your scene. World settings and capabilities vary depending on the render engine used, so it is advisable to also specify which render engine you are using when posting a question about the World. Questions about environment lighting may also fall into this category.
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How to relocate a Follow Path Camera rig in the World without it breaking?
When animating a Camera or other object along a Curve, such as is shown in this video for example, why is it that the whole setup seems to be dependent on World Space?
That is to say, even if 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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Artefact in World background
I'm making a space World with shader nodes. Here's a simplified version with only black background and the Sun. The Sun location is set by an object:
This is how the Sun looks:
However, in the ...
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How can I prevent world lighting from passing through objects?
I'm using world lighting in Blender 3.6.2 by following the tutorial Creating 3D Environments For Free And Easily With BlenderKit Addon.
However, the light from this world can pass through solid ...
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How to make world color not affect any mesh in eevee?
I want to make my world color in my animation blue, to mirror the sky, but it makes all of my meshes colored blue in the render mode. I'm using version 3.2.2. My goal is to have the meshes not ...
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Nishita Sky texture not updating in all animation frames
I’m rendering an animation of a night scene, where I’m using the Nishita Sky texture node to mimic a moon moving across the sky in a time lapse kind of way. For some reason it seems the sky texture/...
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Object location coordinates not using world origin as (0,0)
How do I set it back to world origin? My object is far from (0,0). I attach a screenshot.
Edit for clarification: my object is away from x0y0, yet the location of object is shown at y0, z0, x0.000002. ...
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How can I render in Blender while preserving the metallic shine, background appearance, and reflections? [duplicate]
I have a project in Blender. The appearance of my project during rendering is shown in the first image, but I want the metallic reflections and the "reflection of the Earth" on the ...
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Part of car animation scene is getting clipped out by something in viewport and final render [duplicate]
below image shows the camera view in both solid and rendered views. In top image you can see part of a car is clipped out. i need to see the whole scene in camera view. this issue also exist in final ...
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Display in viewport becomes orthographic
Under World Properties, I added a Studio HDRI as an environment, and I suspect I must have messed with options within it.
It looks like this now (orthographic)
This is what I want (Perspective)
How ...
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Separate World Mapping on Z axis and make them independent?
My nodes config:
I'm trying to set the nodes in order to modify the top and bottom (+Z/-Z) independently with the Mapping Nodes, I also put a Map Range node to blend the +Z-Z coordinates
Changing the ...
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Minecraft animation issue
I'm trying to learn how to make Minecraft animations with blender, but I have 2 problems! If I try to import my Minecraft skin, it won't show the outer layer. It will only show the body! And also, I ...
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How do I render my blend without Scene Lights and Scene World using HDRI lighting?
I tried to render my keyboard and it renders with Scene World. I tried to change the lighting from Scene World to HDRI (with HDRI it looks good (1)), but then it still ended up a mess.
Where is my ...
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How to create a randomized world background pattern from a single PNG image?
I'd like to create a custom world background set in space, using a single PNG file and randomizing its size and placements. The PNG is of a simple vector star that I would to turn into many stars in ...
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Grass for Large Scale Scene
Let me start by saying that I am VERY new to blender. I am trying to create a scene with a large field of grass that fades into the horizon without killing my computer. I found the particle generated ...
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How do I make sky and grass for scene in Blender
I already have a scene in Blender, but I have been having a hard time trying to make a world in Blender for the sky and grass... This is what my scene looks like so far:
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Get ‘local’ rotation about object with immunity to gimbal lock
I am looking at exporting the camera position and orientation for every frame to a CSV file.
Position is easy to reference, however the orientation is difficult. I can retrieve the matrix_world ...
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Scene and render suddenly got brighter
so I made a scene and rendered it in EEVEE. Somehow after coming back to that scene and rendering it again the image became brighter (I did not change a single thing).
this is what the render looks ...
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Why won't my World shader appear in rendered images but be visible in viewport?
I'm not using an image. I created a starry night sky with several nodes, and it was appearing in rendered images but not anymore. Small rendered image on the right has no starry night sky, node tree ...
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How can I use an HDRI for sky background and another for lighting? [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a starry night sky. The image I used was a night sky and adjusted to make it black and white. Thing is everything is now black and white.
I went to the world properties and changed ...
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Increase floating point precision with large scene and parented objects
So I have a pretty large scene with ships flying towards a canyon, the ship has pilots in side but they are jittering around. I know this is a floating point issue but fixing it is proving hard.
The ...
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No output node in World, Surface with Cycles
With the Cycles engine, I get No output node in World Properties -> Surface:
This does not happen with the Evee engine. Also,
in a fresh Blender file, I see the expected content in Surface line ...
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Why is the render larger than it should be?
I've been trying to figure it out for 4 hours and I can't. Has anyone more experienced gone through this?
I put a grid image as background in World like this:
In the viewport it is correct as you ...
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Is it possible to make HDRI following camera?
I made a landscape with an HDRI that I want to use on the final render. But the thing is as I navigate the scene via camera, the World stays the same, which makes everything completely fake. I know I ...
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How do I mirror the environment texture?
How do I mirror the environment texture?
I like the results, but I need them to be on the other side. Moving on x,yx,z doesn't give me the same results.
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How do I rotate this world while retaining my camera's FOV?
I configured a world with nodes in Blender and I'd like to rotate it along the Z axis.
Unfortunately, as soon as I connect a Mapping and Geometry node, my camera's Focal Length and Sensor Size ...
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HDRi backgrounds refuse to display on certain Blend files
I'm suddenly running into an issue where certain Blend files will not display an HDRi in the viewport or render. Objects behave as though they're receiving light from the HDRi, but the HDRi background ...
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World Environment HDRI vs. Sphere w/ HDRI texture over entire scene... is there a difference/advantage?
Is there an advantage, or a difference, between adding an environment texture to the World, vs. adding the same environment texture to a sphere and simply scaling it up to surround your scene?
The ...
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Do procedural skies typically cause viewport lag?
I'm new to procedural skies and I'm trying two payware products for Blender: "Nm-8 Skies" and "Procedural Sky System", both available from Blender Market. While the results from ...
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Problem with "procedural" Blur Background, with Cycles engine, how to solve?
With this configuration of nodes, I can get a Blur effect in the Background, but this works poorly in Cycles, while in Eevee everything seems to be ok.
I cannot understand what causes this problem and ...
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How to lock my world background's position? keep following my camera
I am following this guide to make a world background.
World Background Image: Environment Texture does not scale right
How can I lock the world position?
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Using multiple HDRIs when moving between rooms
I want to "walk" a rendered object from one room to another. I have filmed and tracked a background plate of the camera move and the room.
The object contains reflective sections, and the ...
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how can i lower my hdri lighting strength
how can I lower my hdri lighting strength to almost 0? I'm making a 1 shot timelapse style from daytime to night fall in one shot. I attached my shader web for my world shader.
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Nishita with Ground
Is it possible, using nodes, to combine a Gradient Texture and/or Color Ramp with a Nishita Sky Texture? Somehow I'm looking to combine the two, where below the horizon (or mountain range) the ...
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When I activate my scence lights my world lights (HDRI) no longer work
When I activate my scence lights my world lights (HDRI) no longer work, also when I disabled all light it works fine.
when light enabled hdri doesn't work
also outside]
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How do I make ambient light in building with sky?
I'm creating an abandoned factory/warehouse building, and I've run into a lighting problem. I've searched a lot on Blender SE for a solution, but none of the questions I found helped. This question ...
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Is there a way to make the world lighting effect certain object?
I set the world lighting to really dark, but still visible, because it fits with the environment that i want to portray, but the character themselves is too dark when its rendering, is there a way ...
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How to get rid of the background in Shading
I incidently did something while in the Shading window and now I have a background in "3D viewport". How do I go back and remove this world background?
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How to put a background onto its own Render Layer?
I'm working with a 3rd-party product that allows you to create custom skies via Blender's World environment. The documentation states:
"To render fast you can separate the background on a render ...
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Why is world light bleeding in EEVEE? [duplicate]
I have a pipe with an opening, no lights in the scene. Only world light. And it's bleeding inside the pipe (even if I cover it with a plane). Why?? Shouldn't it be black due to lack of lighting?
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Is it possible to render an object as it appears in the Material Preview tab, while keeping the rest of the scene shaded?
I have this scene where I want the text to be noticeably metallic (this is the Rendered View):
The problem is, since the scene is so dark, it makes it very hard to see the text.
Ideally, I would want ...
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How to render a transparent object that reflects the hdri world?
I just can't render this animation. When I do, it turns out pink on a black background.
It's a transparent object that reflects the world background. Is there a possibility to render this or an ...
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Passing Animated Properties to World Nodes
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I've run into an issue with controlling world shader with properties. Thus far I've been using a method where I check when I update a property and then overwrite the default value for a ...
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What happened to Ambient Occlusion?
Ambient Occlusion used to be under World Properties. Where is it now to find?
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How to animate the world scene to affect selected object
I have set up a scene, and I have animated the world position spinning, but its affecting both of the cubes. How can I make the world target only one cube, so the other one doesn't get the reflections ...
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Blender Won't Save World Surface Shaders
I was working on a blender project, and noticed that when I opened it, all the world shaders that weren't being used got deleted. Any Ideas on how to fix this? Btw, I was able to restore the shaders ...
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How to create high altitude clouds? (cirrus and cirrocumulus)
Pretty much all cloud tutorials show how to make Cumulus clouds, or some random blob of a cloud, but I'm looking to create high altitude clouds, which you can see below.
I'm most interested in the ...
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where this background come from
I have download one model from web, when in texture view, there shows a background which seems in a factory house. but I have turned all objects off, see attached picture.
if in render view, no such ...
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Is there any way to create a light that does what world lighting does? ie. Diffuse "non-directional" scene lighting?
I find world lighting helpful for giving objects a bit of slight illumination from all angles. Eg. Designing 3D icons/buttons. In this application, I am using world lighting with a flat white color, ...
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World color is a weird pink color in viewport shader, disabling ‘scene world’ fixes it but still shows up in render. It is not a missing texture
It is not a missing texture. Here’s an image of my world shader. Even if I change the image or remove it entirely, everything is still pink. It’s like it’s one big lighting somewhere shining pink, ...
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