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Questions tagged [rendering]

The action of turning a scene into an end product such as an image or movie. If your question is specific to one render engine, please use its respective tag (cycles, eevee, blender-internal, etc).

Rendering is the process of converting a 3D scene into a 2D image or series of images. During rendering, the lighting, shading, materials, and textures are all applied to the faces of the models in the scene and viewed from a camera, resulting in a final image.

Render engines that are available for Blender include:

For questions related to the Game Engine, please use the tag instead.

The Blender Network Render Engine allows you to render a single animation on multiple computers to speed up the total render time. For questions related to the Network Render Engine, please use the tag instead.

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How can I pause a render in progress and then resume it at a later time?

I would like to pause a render that I have started, with the intention of resuming it at a later time (but during the same Blender session). How can I do this?
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How to find image coordinates of the rendered vertex?

I have a simple mesh of a cube. I would like to know what are the coordinates of each vertex in the rendered image (i.e. for each 3d vertex I'd like to know it's pixel coordinates). Is there a way to do this? Clarification: I'm experimenting with…
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Render result is completely blank

A scene I made is not rendering, at all. This grey screen stays the same and nothing changes. Here are my settings: [
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How to save render?

Every time I render an image and try to save it, it just disappears. How do you exactly save a render? I am using a mac.
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No file output after rendering?

I usually am able to render successfully to the c:\tmp folder, but when I came into work today, I rendered out the image on my work laptop, and everything seems to work, but I'm not getting an output to the tmp directory. Does anyone know how to…
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Glow with depth in Blender?

What would be a way to create a glow in Blender. For that purpose I've been always using the compositor. However, that is pixels work, which means it is a 2d work. To make a 3d one, do I have to use particles, nodes or maybe some simulator? Because…
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Rendered image looks pixelated

When I hit F12 to render an image and zoom in it is quickly pixelated. How can I render a higher res display? I have looked through the settings and couldn't find a solution.
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How can I compare different renders?

I am rendering an object and am making changes and then rendering again. Is there any way to compare my different renders. By compare I mean just quickly swap between the different renders so I can see the minute changes. My interest in is in this…
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What is the technical reason that Blender cannot use OpenCL on AMD graphics cards?

I have an AMD graphics card, and I want to accelerate Blender using OpenCL. However, Blender does not support the use of OpenCL acceleration with AMD cards. What is the technical explanation for this, and will there be a fix?
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How do I avoid rendering glitches from overlapping faces?

For instance, here I have two cubes that are offset only on the x-axis. When I render them (using Blender's internal renderer), the overlapping faces interfere with each other and the result looks awful. A quick and easy solution would be to offset…
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Why are there non-visible objects in my final render?

Have Blender on about 4 machines rendering animations. Just spotted on one of the machines its rendering something different from the actual scene that I have setup. Top window shows a different set of layers objects to whats actually being…
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Blender is rendering an older version my project

Blender is rendering an older version of my project, not the most recent one. I have made it using the Blender Render but it does not want to render in cycles either. A black and grey screen is rendered as if everything is transparent. Checked…
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How to keep Blender from adding frame numbers to output filename?

When you render something, Blender will automatically append the frame number to all output files' names, producing filenames something like render_0001.png, render_0002.png, render_0003.png, etc. For frames of an animation this is great, since it…
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Can frames with no animation be automatically skipped?

I have an animation with lots of text objects flying about. I'd like to render it with motion blur and stuff, but there are quite a few long sections where nothing is moving so that the text can be read. In these sections the render output (should)…
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Different camera settings for different render layers?

I have a scene with two objects. I need one to be rendered with the camera set to Perspective and the other to be rendered with an Orthographic camera. I've put them on separate render layers, but it seems there can only be a single camera for both…
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