#render help

hey! I'm doing well and I hope you are too! & don't worry, I don't mind answering at all :)

the smoothness usually comes from my editing process, which is long and changes depending on the raw render's lighting/color/etc. I use and edit photoshop actions to suit my needs.

that said, SOME of it does happen in blender!

My computer is pretty powerful, so my settings are quite high, but here's my default render settings:

the most important parts are the samples, noise threshold, denoising and the transparent light paths! (but keep in mind that the higher you set your samples the more power your computer needs!)

as for the glow, I'm a magpie and if it's not shiny and glowy I don't want it! the glow is achieved through the compositor!

these are my default compositor settings:

the glow comes from the glare node, and some of the smoothness comes from the soften node

my first real attempt at rendering clothes!

I've been really apprehensive about this for a while, but a couple of friends have helped me a lot. I've been rendering to be about a year and a half or so and not only has it become a fun hobby to learn, but also a unique way to collaborate with friends, a way to create content for our community (i.e. making cc, poses, etc), and just overall a frustratingly relaxing hobby. I've always wanted a place to learn more from other talented creators as well as sharing what I know with others in a friendly and safe environment of people willing to help others; but instead of waiting for someone else to make that space, I thought why no make it myself?

Well...

I'd like to formally invite you to NEPPY'S BLENDER HAVEN!

join here

This wouldn't be possible without the helping hands of @vampiremilfs @gleamer @goblin-sims @missatan @resurrection-trait @elderwisp and many others!

Thank you all for your hard work. I couldn't do this without you.

"Draw the sketch" okay

"Put down the flats" got it

Okay! Today's first project involves (among other things that I DO know how to do) making an ocean with waves in Blender. Doesn't have to be animated waves, because it's for a still render, although if googling tutorials is how I do it, it might be animated waves.

Thanks, and I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Heyo!

There's a few ways (I've found) to accomplish this! I had to actually do a test to try to recreate your issue and I think I see what you mean!

This was my end result, & in the right screenshot you can see that the flat meshes overlap.

When I first adjusted the nodes for each, there was a weird black square blocky "ghosting" that would happen where they overlapped, but after flipping between the material preview and rendered view it just... went away? With another test I also moved one of them veery slight behind the other, which made that ghosting disappear.

A few things to troubleshoot to make sure these processes work properly:

Make sure your nodes for each mesh look like this!

Make sure that your render method under material properties is set to "dithered" (or, if you're in an older blender version, "alpha hashed"

& a bonus setting... under your render properties, you can adjust the transparent value. I think it's 8 by default. 100 is extreme (you don't need to set it that high), but like 15-30 can sometimes help to "smooth out" transparencies.