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Volumetric Windows 10 logo effect
Emulate light scattering using a volumetric emission shader
Using Volumetric scatter produces the most accurate results but required a considerable number of render samples to get satisfactory ...
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Volume Gods rays are not well defined
Because your light source is too big.
God rays are just interesting/complicated shadow patterns hanging in space. If your light is throwing soft, boring shadows, the god rays of those shadows hanging ...
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Rendering smoke in Cycles?
As of version 2.73 from 2015:
Make sure render engine is set to cycles (BI wouldn't create the required cycles materials)
Select the object you want to emit smoke
From the menu Object/Quick Effects ...
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How to: Exponential Fall Off for Volume Density?
You can use Vector maths and Maths nodes to calculate the 'altitude' above the planet and from there the atmospheric density and use this to control the density of the Volumetric Scatter.
To achieve ...
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Create procedural spiral pattern
Final result
One method is to create a volumetric cylinder and distort it by rotating it around the origin by an amount that varies based on the distance from the origin.
First, create a volumetric ...
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Create a gradient effect, like for coffee?
This can actually be done quite easily (and efficiently) using the volume absorption shader:
You're correct that this is a volumetric effect - it's dependent on how far the light travels through the ...
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Distance from the surface as an input node for use with volumetric materials
You can use an OSL shader that measures the proximity of the mesh from within a volume. It works by projecting out rays from each point in the volume to probe the surrounding mesh. Be warned that this ...
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Question about volume samples
No, you are confusing volume samples, volume bounce depth, and ray-marching steps, which are all different controls.
To start with, a short overview of how volume rendering works. As a ray passes ...
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Is there an easy way to make volumetric clouds for Cycles?
Let's use the Cloud Generator addon to make nice clouds and the new Point Density Texture to render them inside Cycles!
First enable the addon in User Preferences under Object: Cloud Generator.
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Using volumetrics in Cycles I have to have the light strength super high
There are several considerations here:
Spot lamps and sun lamps are quite different (I suspect you are using a spot lamp to simulate a sun lamp, as sun lamps are not yet supported with world ...
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How to Create Dust Floating in the Air?
Mix an volumetric environment with a particle system:
density of volume scattering will determine the amount of microscopic dust particles that create light rays
particle system will add visible dust
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Render semi-transparent volume with cycles
PNG images can't represent objects that emit light but not block any light, due to the way they represent transparency. For that reason, you must always have some amount of volume absorption for the ...
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Using image sequence of medical scans as volume data in cycles
You can use an osl shader to do that.
The code in the capture above creates an osl node. Here are its inputs and outputs :
The input slots
Vector : the mapping position (in this config, this must ...
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Using image sequence of medical scans as volume data in cycles
If you don't want to use OSL as in lemon's answer I have created a method to do this using only Cycles nodes. (Remember OSL isn't supported on GPU.) The downside to my method is that it requires the ...
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Controlling volume density
Yes, you can use any set of 3D values (e.g. procedural texture) you want (note that this means you can't use image textures. This is because you need the texture to be defined in 3D, and of course a ...
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Creating a Fluffy Cloud
Here's what your file looks like rendered with the Sun lamp strength set to 4 (it was set to 1):
The key to having a good "fluff" is a wide dynamic range. Dynamic range is the distance between the ...
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Correct way to render crepuscular rays in cycles?
This is really a tricky one.
First off, world surface shader and sun lamps dont work for world volume shading for now (as stated in the manual). Also, if you use object volumes the camera can not be ...
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How to properly render smoke on a transparent background?
It's a viewer issue only. Try compositing over a gray background using the alpha-over node.
If the result is correct, then your file output (without the gray background, of course) will be correct as ...
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Why is this transparent material rendering black?
Even though you have 'Transmission' bounces set to 12 you are capping the 'Max' bounces to 4, meaning it's never doing 12 bounces. Here I have upped the 'Max' bounces to 6 and the liquid started to ...
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Volumetric Windows 10 logo effect
You should look at the sunbeam node in the compositor - after render, you can add several filters and color mix nodes, but a really good way to get this effect seems to be with the sunbeam node to ...
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Emission: Red glow while the object itself is white
If you really want to use Cycles: Add a box which encloses the entire scene, add a principled volume shader to the box and play with Density and Anisotropy:
In comp you can add a Denoise node to save ...
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Emission: Red glow while the object itself is white
From a physically based rendering point of view, the problem you are running into is that Blender's HDR tone mapping is trying too hard to be helpful.
The effect you see in the reference image occurs ...
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God Rays through window pane: Cycles
Use a cuboid to surround the scene, and use a volume scatter node as volume. Nothing shoud be connected to the surface socket.
The default value of 1 for volume scatter is way too dense for practical ...
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Why there's not homogeneous volume scatter in 2.72?
Of course this feature has not been removed; it's just moved in the UI.
You can now find it in the Settings subpanel of the World tab:
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How can a light cone (volumetric) be setup with cycles?
In real life these effects are caused by particles in the air such as water droplets, which reflect and scatter light. Usually these effects are only clearly visible when there is not a lot of other ...
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Why doesn't an Environment texture appear when the world has a Volume Scatter shader?
This is a known limitation, and it's not exactly a bug.
Because the world background is an infinite distance away and a world volume shader is assumed to be infinitely large, there is a bit of a ...
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Create light rays in Cycles
Using a Gradient texture you can fade the volumetric emission off however you want:
In this case, since it should fade out spherically from the center of the ring I used a spherical gradient:
The ...
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