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2,934 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Particle Instance Modifier : colour each instance based on the emitter texture (like Hair strands materials do)
In cycles, with particle hair strands, I can get the colour from the texture of the emitter object for colouring the entire strand.
When I use the "Particle Instance" modifier on a mesh (a simple ...
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Why Cloud texture has square cell pattern?
When I am using Cloud texture as bump map in Blender Render, this cells appear. How can I make them go away?
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Is there a way to overwrite Blender's 16K limit for environment textures?
I'm rendering a planet in space. NASA has gorgeous equirectangular JPGs of the Milky Way up to 65K. I plugged in the 16K version and the render has blurry stars. To get them pin point I tried to load ...
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Procedural texture is much lighter when baked
I was following a procedural texture tutorial to make a texture for an object, but the bake is coming out a lighter color (I'm baking it to export it to a game engine). I've included the tutorials I ...
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Struggling with the texture for Wagashi (a Japanese dessert)
I am trying to reproduce Wagashi (a kind of Japanese dessert) in a 3D scene. It is called Hanabi and I used this video as my reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXJzjPtl9Sg
A model with ...
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Understanding Blender's Invert Node and Varying Bit Depth Images
So, I am trying to wrap my head around exactly what the invert node is doing in the shader editor.
I realize that this sounds like the most simplistic question in the universe, but please bear with me....
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radial texture on an acorn cap
I am trying to texture an acorn cap I modeled to mimic a real acorn cap texture. Any suggestions on where to start?
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Eevee Linear / Cubic Texture Interpolation Complex Node Issue / Bug
A friend has been working on a project, and they have run into issues with using Linear Interpolation & Cubic Interpolation with their complex node tree.
This node tree will be working with low ...
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How to create a custom voronoi diagram with cycles nodes?
I've been looking for a way to create my own Voronoi diagram using cycles nodes, I've seen scripts that do just that but I wanted to create it using just math nodes within the Shader Editor, besides I ...
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How do I curve procedurally generated textures (Clouds)?
I'm quite new to blender and am still getting the hang of things. Having followed BlenderMaster's tutorial on creating clouds, I've managed to create something like this:
I already know how to move ...
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black displacement artifacts using micro-displacement and adaptive subdivision
I am currently using micro-displacement along side with adaptive subdivision.
However I have stumble upon a weird artifact.
As you can see there are some black pixelated artifacts along side the ...
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Keep texture and change UVs?
I was creating a simple terrain texture, and just used the create simple uvs button. The UV's it created were pretty ugly, but I didn't care, because I was only going to be texture painting directly ...
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Alpha textures show only when selected
I'm making a radar display animation (those spinning once) for a movie project. What I do is:
Set up a material in cycles to see how it fits together (using b&w images)
Create alpha textures to ...
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How can I use a node-based texture for smoke flow in Cycles?
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I'm thinking that this might be a bug, because the behavior's pretty weird.
I'm posting it here in case it is the intended behavior and there's some trick I should use.
I can successfully ...
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Spiral texture/material on the sphere
How to setup material with a texture on the sphere which will look like this
I have draw in Paint straight line but I don't know how to bend it spirally around the sphere with material nodes. Also, I ...
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