Questions about using light objects (point, sun, spot, and area), the world object, and shader nodes that have emission properties (principled, principled volume, and emission)
Questions tagged [lighting]
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How to add lamps?
Day 3 Blender super noob. I'm following this tutorial, trying to make a mushroom, and all's been fine until it's asking me to put a lamp in the scene where there is no option to. I've looked around and everything says it's simply Shift+A or Add menu…
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Does Blender have a histogram?
I'd like to be able to tell where—and by how much—a highlight is blowing out without having to render, go into Photoshop, back into Blender, turn my lamp down, render etc etc. So I'm wondering, is there a way to do this within Blender, or even…
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Spot light with square shape
Is it possible to produce a spot light with a different shape than a circle? In particular, I would like to produce a spotlight that casts a squared image into a wall, and the spotlight can be occluded by certain elements in the scene.
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Laser beam pathway with reflective mirrors
I want to create a beam of laser light. The laser beam will bounces off many mirrored surfaces that can change their angle and positions.
This would be a simulator to help me calculate the geometry for the size of mirrors and the area needed. …
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How to hide light object keeping the brightness alive?
How can i hide the plane keeping the brightness?
OK i added a plane as emission light source, i dont want the plane to come in my scene, when i hide the plane brightness also disappears.
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How to simulate bloom of light in fog
How would you recreate something like the photo below in Blender? I'm refereeing to the effect generated by the lights and the fog. I know that this effect is rather intensified/created by the exposure time of the photo being really long, despite…
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Create Sinosoidal Fringe Projection with blender... not everything by hand possible?
i am using blender to create optical settings for my work as an engineer in applied optics. I would like to create a lighting with simulates a display which projects a sinusoidal fringe pattern. I am really new to blender, just worked through the…
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Sun imitating partially cloudy sky
My scene is an exterior shot of a couple of industrial buildings.
Is there a way to light my scene that implies the sky is partially cloudy? I don't need to show any cloud, just tweak the "Sun" so that it looks like there are clouds in the sky.
I…
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How to make softer, more natural lighting?
I'm trying to recreate this image:
This is what I have so far:
The lighting doesn't look as soft and natural as the first picture. Lighting has always been that hurdle I can't jump across, but now it's starting to become more of an issue. Right…
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How to turn off multiple light one by one in blender
i got a scene where i have a long corridor (infini corridor) with arround 100 lights all the way and i wanted to turn them off one by one (not all at the same time)
If you have any ideas
Let me know
Thanks
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Does the size of the cone of a spot lamp have a meaning?
So the spot lamp has a cone which ends after a distance. Does the size of the cone hold any meaning? I tried scaling the spot lamp, which changes the size of the cone but doesn't seem to change the final render at all.
Additonally both the spot lamp…
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Light object is NOT seen on the viewport
In Blender 3.0, when I add any new light object it is NOT seen on the viewport, as if it does not exist at all. It is only shown in the Outliner. There is no problem with all the other objects. What is wrong with my settings?
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No Light Groups under Passes with View Layer
I am using 3.6, but as you can see, there is no Light Group option for some reason.
Is it something that requires extra setup to show?
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Light distribution measurements- Isolux curve for automotive lighting
Can we get the isolux or isocandela plots in Blender?
I have an automotive lamp sending light in x-direction and the light is projected over a plane 3m away. Is there any chance we can get the light distribution of light projected on the plane,…
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