Rendering my images as just black

[Emily Elliott]

Hi, I am trying to test render my model after texturing and even though I have all my lights renderable everything is still being rendered into a black image.

What could this be?

[Omar Domenech]

It can be a lot of things. The most usual culprit is that you have an object hidden in the viewport but it comes into effect at render time and it’s right in front of your camera, blacking everything. Another one is that you have compositing nodes turned on and it’s taking effect after the render. Maybe it’s some collection in the outliner that has the renderability off. In any case you can upload your .blend file if you want us to take a look.

[Emily Elliott]

It would be absolutely incredible if you could take a look!!

[Emily Elliott]

This is probably obvious but I do not see a spot where it will let me upload the project file. Is there somewhere I should send it?

Thank you so much!

[Omar Domenech]

Yes you can upload to your Drop Box or Google Drive and just post the download link.

[Emily Elliott]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mb1M51WQ97zY0TYvp3GwRTFxFJy9ygH8/view?usp=share_link

[Emily Elliott]

Thank you!

I believe everything is packed correctly!

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Emily,

It’s like Omar said, your Camera is inside your ‘Sphere’, so no light can reach your ‘Sphere.001:

Simply disable the Renderability of your ‘Sphere’…

[Omar Domenech]

Talk about having Blender inside your head all the time. I’m glad is a simple solution Emily.

[Emily Elliott]

This was so helpful I was able to continue the course after this just as normal. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[Emily Elliott]

I do have another confusion if anyone has time I have linked the project below.

I am at the part in the course where he starts the sclera on the eye ball.

When he applies his gradient and adjusts his maps it looks like this:

Were mine looks like this:

I have changed the scale and mapping coordinates to the same as his as well as set my sclera and iris slot.

any help would be VERY appreciated.

Project:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y18Nr64im9POumRsygk5I92bcRXsNFl5/view?usp=share_link

[Omar Domenech]

It says I need access, make the link accessible to anyone.

[Emily Elliott]

Just adjusted it! 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Emily @CGGorgon ,

The Object Coordinates are in the center of the Eye. You are Scaling in all three Axes equally, thus creating a Spherical Gradient, basically a small white sphere inside the Eye, which you can’t see, hence the black eyes. If you set the Scale of one of the Axes (in this case the Z-Axis, because the Eye is rotated) to 0, then that Axis gets ‘ignored’ and you create a Cylinder:

Is that clear enough of shall I try to explain this in more depth?

[Martin Bergwerf]

Another possible approach would be to change the Z-Location (of the Object’s center) in the Mapping Node.

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