Pink rendering

[Marie Delagrave]

I have my object, my background and an animation. But the render is pink. I checked: I have no missing files, but they weren’t all in the same folder. Now they are, but the render is still pink. My images are in PNG or JPG. 

[Marie Delagrave]

Here’s the look I want: 

and this is what I get: 

Maybe there is also a lighting problem but I’ll see that later.

[Dwayne Savage]

Are you using volumetric or mist pass? It appears to have really bright lighting or maybe gamma/exposer problem? Are you using a color adjustment in Compositor/VSE/Shader editor? 

[Marie Delagrave]

I’m quite newbie in Blender. I don’t know what is volumetric or mist pass. 🫤 Maybe my light source is too close. But that doesn’t explain the pink color, does it?

Here is what I have in the Compositor (it’s in French), but I don’t think I have done that… 🤔: 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Marie,

could you upload your .blend (to Googledrive, Dropbox, or so) and post a link here? Please Pack Resources, just in case and then Save your File, before uploading:

[Marie Delagrave]

Hi Martin! Nice to see you. 😉

I have a texture from Poly Haven. Should I transfer it too? (Because it’s not in my Textures file.)

[Marie Delagrave]

I erased the link.

Please note that I work with Blender 4.2.1 LTS.

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Marie, the texture from Poly Haven should be packed automatically, when you Pack the Resources,

but somehow the Packing didn’t work yet:

After Packing, you should see this icon:

[Marie Delagrave]

But I can see it, look here! (But I put it in Matériau, not Monde, because it’s more an objet, a bowl in fact, then an HDRI.)

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Marie, I get this:

So maybe try uploading the file again?

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Marie it’s okay now. Textures included.

Here is what goes wrong: you don’t have an Environment Texture plugged in:

You could set the Color back to RGB, for instance and there will be no more pink:

[Marie Delagrave]

I’ve tried with an HDRI yesterday and because I couldn’t (or didn’t know how…) place it well, I decided to create a kind of bowl with a texture on it. That let the Environment Texture empty. Now, with RGB, it’s okay!!! Thank you. That means that we always need something in the background, doesn’t it? (But the lighting is really too bright: I will (try to) fix that.) 

[Marie Delagrave]

Lighting (easily) fixed, even though the cat shadow is not really there. 

[Martin Bergwerf]

You could still use an HDRI as World Texture, in combination with the ‘bowl’. Then it will contribute to the lighting, but won’t be visible as background…

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