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Blender 3.5 Hangs On Installation
I downloaded the new Blender 3.5 (MSI) from Blender.org and tried installing it on my Windows 11 PC as I have the older versions of Blender. A few seconds into the installation, the screen turns dark ...
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Displaying buttons
I'm trying to display my buttons, and what I'd like to change is the middle button to take up more space. Like double or triple the size, because right now the 3 buttons are evenly spaced.
This is the ...
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How to distribute opencv in an addon?
I would like to use the cv2 contained in opencv (Below the example). I'm not sure if it can be done, the goal is to distribute ...
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Bevel corner on the z-axis
I have the following mesh that has its top edges beveled already, but from a top-down view, all the angles are at 90 degrees, as it is visible from the base of the mesh. I want to make the corner that ...
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Material node tree missing on scripting output
I am trying to check material nodes on a mesh with Python scripting. I was using a Iridescence material. In this material, there are two different output nodes named "Material Output" and &...
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How to render preview png´s for outside of blender [closed]
I need to have previews outside of Blender. The best may be for Materials too. How can i do this in python or else?
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Bambolê (Hula Hoop)
It's Won't Rotation Hula hoop Up, Down, Left, And Right. Someone Help Me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QgPQ_OZUh8
https://i.stack.imgur.com/xMQxF.gif
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Capture initial curve control points
I need to capture initial curve control points before resampling it. So then I can only instanciate on the initial points and not all the resampled points.
As you can see in the image it's instancing ...
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How to convert the new hair curves to particle system?
I'm currently testing the new curve hair system implemented with 3.5, I've managed to get a pretty nice braid tail, however, due to my workflow needs, I'd like to convert this "curves" to a ...
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Any idea on how this shader may have been made?
Any idea on how this shader may have been made? I have already tried asking the creator but it look like they don't want to respond
I was mainly interested in the grainy effect they have on the ...
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how do I create glass material and lens material similar to the glass camera panel in image?
Hi, I am trying to create a glass material that is similar to the one I posted below...
How do I achieve a similar effect, in eevee?
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Random boolean to switch not working
i want to randomly select from 2 different geometries. this should be possible with a random value node that has the type boolean. however, i just won't work and the line connecting the 2 is always ...
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Voronoi texture inconsistent over curve?
Basically what i have here are three curves with an object bevel that i wanted to have this embroidery—stitching look to them with the stitching going perpendicular to the curve. I found a yt tutorial ...
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Why the line art of my object shows sloppy and joined?
I have an object and several issues. Trying to do a lineart concept to get this result:
but in the layout I see like this:
is this normal?
and why it shows the join? I made two rectangles and joined ...
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Is it possible for a script to act upon two different selection types?
I'm trying to create a script that triples an n-gon based on a user selected vertex. I've done this sort of thing in the past using MODO where I selected the vertex then placed the cursor over the ...
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how to make this type material in blender
How to make the outside material of a sink in a blender and the inside like steel. I have basic knowledge of blender materials and nodes. I tried a lot, but I couldn't make it look the same as the ...
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Do I need more VRAM?
I was doing some work that ended up having lots of linked models, there were different types of textures for the same box. When I see my pre render VRAM its 1/12 Gb. But when I start rendering it just ...
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my blender file just disappeared off the face of the earth. not in auto save recover. where did it go? [closed]
I saved the file after my last session, but when I tried to open it it gave me an error message and removed it from my recent files. cannot find it anywhere now, not even recycle.
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Particles turning to wireframe
So when I set the cube to view as wireframe it’s also setting my particles that emit from the volume of the cube to wireframe and in the view port the particles aren’t showing. I was following a ...
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How do I invert the extrusion along the normals?
I am trying to extrude an edge along the normals to direction A (oposite of direction B) but it is always going in direction B, even though I flipped the normals. This image shows direction B. I ...
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Can't Paste Data path from Custom Properties into Driver
so here is the situation:
I'm doing this all in pose mode
created an armature system
added a bone called > Properties
added a custom properties to this bone (bone properties)
copied the data ...
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Vram usage seems way too high
I hope you are faring well (pun intended).
I was doing Grant Abbit's Low Poly Well tutorial; but upon completion I find the Vram usage to be ridiculously high for what it is. I have an RTX 3080 with ...
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Hair with geo nodes goes through mesh when using comb brush just like on second screenshot?
How to prevent hair with geo nodes goes through mesh when using comb brush just like on second screenshot?
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Basic Consistently sized outline with depth
I am struggling to create a very simple outline because of its criteria.
I would like the outline to not draw atop the object and affect the object's size, and the width to scale as if it were an ...
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How to Scale instances based on length of curve? (Geometry Nodes)
I’m currently trying to Array a group of objects/instances along a curve in geometry nodes and am wanting to control the scale of them via evaluating their position on a curve
i.e. The objects in the ...
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How to convert posebone fcurve quaternion values to world space?
I am making an exporter for a custom file format that supports animations.
In this file to make animations work I need to provide anim data as quaternions in world space.
My issue is that the bone ...
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self causes ERROR: Invalid Python expression in scripted expression drivers
I am trying to create a generic driver for many objects that uses a float generated from the last 2 numerical characters of objects names but keep getting ...
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How to output in ACIS formats like .sat or .sab?
I am currently writing a program that is outputting a 3D model into a simulation software. Currently I am ouputting in .stl file format for the object using the blender python function that does this ...
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I want to merge to meshes i previously shrinkwrap on each other
so i want to create a clean mesh with something a projeceted on to another mesh.
for example i projected a plane on to a cube (picture) and now i want to merge the to meshes into one. i tried with ...
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Musgrave Texture not displaying correctly in render mode
I am making this scene, following Youtube tutorial by Max Hay, but my water texture is not displayed correctly in render mode and in rendered image. It is only displayed correctly in Viewport Shading ...
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Armature doesn't move mesh all the way; mesh only slightly deforms
My brother made a fairly simple 3d model using Zbrush, and I've been trying to armature it for a bothersome period of time. He built an armature and I've assigned the vertex groups with weight paint. ...
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Can't Move the Gizmo - Just Draws a Select Box
In previous versions of Blender, I was able to click on the different points of a 3D gizmo to manipulate it.
However, after the 3.4 update this no longer works. It just draws a select box. I wondered ...
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Aligning an instance using an angle between two edges with Geometry Nodes
I have some geometry edges and at each vertex that's linked to two edges I want an instance of an object and I want these instances to be oriented between the edges. On the left is an example of the ...
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Apply a boolean modification so that it remains even without the boolean operand
I'm doing to loop through the .stl files of a folder to perform a boolean modification on them. Once the boolean modification is performed, I want to delete the boolean operand object (...
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Why does the turbulence not affect the particle system?
I want to make a smoke trail behind a flying object by emitting particles and make a smoke simulation with it. I parented a turbulence to the emitter so that the particles don't fly out too straight. ...
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Apply hair to an animated geometry node mesh
I have an animated mesh that's using a noise texture with a color ramp and a separate geometry node to create moving holes in the mesh. If I try apply hair to the animated mesh using vertex groups the ...
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Keep resampling count on spline after being divided, geometry nodes Blender
I have a sequence of splines which its being resampled with a fix number each one, this number represents how many instances each spline will be instancing and its is saved in an field coming from ...
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Rigid body simulation objects floating, can't stop it
I am making a Rube Goldberg machine in blender and am using rigid body physics for it. My issue is after my ball (an active rigid body object) bumps into dominos which fall down (active rigid body) it ...
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Descriptive function of motion of a rigid rod around an axis and, by analogy, around a cylinder and the volume "swept" from it
I kindly ask for your help for the "rust" that, after many years of mathematical inactivity, I have regarding the schematization of physical problems.
Problem, as from the title, concerns ...
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Can't add new asset catalog to Asset Library in Blender 3.5
After a drive failure I have had to upgrade to Windows 11 and reinstall Blender, version 3.5. I noticed that I can't add new asset catalogues:
When trying to add a new asset catalog, I get the text <...
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Scaling problem
I am a very newbie to Blender. Trying to get used to modelling now.
I selected the faces on both sides on this object with shift+click, and scaled down by Y axis by S+Y, but the result is not what I ...
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Import SVG to Blender and convert it to mesh gives strange result
I have a black&white-bitmap and wanted to import it into Blender to extrude and bevel it.
I used Inkscape to vectorize the bitmap and save it as a svg-image (just simplified as an example):
In ...
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USD Export Shape Keys
Why USD exporter isn't storing shape keys into file? There is an option in Rigging section "Shapes:Export Shape Keys", but nothing is exporting... Is that a place holder in UI only, or what?
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Smooth a curve with Geometry Nodes
I defined a curve manually and now I need to smooth it.
I try things like the GN 'Deform curves on surface' but I can't do it work.
Any idea about how can I smooth it?
Thanks for your help :)
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Transformation tools gizmos not working
I have a problem with a project im working on; when I try to use any of the transformation gizmos they just dissappear when i click on them and the subtool I have in the selection tool is the one that ...
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using python to set nla subtracks to active so I can insert animations with python
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If you look at the first picture (bottom pic) you'll see I can activate an NLA track and insert an action strip using python - it works fine no problem
The problem (look at second picture) Is I cant ...
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Sticky tape around stuff
I tried few tutorials , followed some tips on the subject , tried shinrkwrap / simulation / modeling / geometry nodes / editing / curves but i can never achieve the effects i want because of my lack ...
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What is a "CA" texture?
I extracted some files from a game and noticed that there is a specific texture map labelled "CA" that I cannot identify.
It just barely resembles a normal map in coloring, but outside of ...
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Parameters for Multires Bake
I'm trying to find the parameters for the Multires bake command bpy.ops.object.bake_image() but in the documentation, none is listed. So there isn't any or are they just not listed? Thinking about ...
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How to move points of one mesh to point positions of another mesh in Geometry Nodes?
If two meshes have the same topology (the same number and order of points, edges and faces) but their points are deformed in completely different ways - how to put points of the first mesh onto ...
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