Questions tagged [3d-view]
The viewport (also known as the 3D view) is where the user interacts with most 3D elements of the scene. Use this tag for questions related to the viewport.
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Blender Freezes while rotating in viewport (Spoiler: sadly it is not Auto Save)
I have very basic scenes and complexity - also my PC is not slow. Still, sometimes (not always) when I rotate in the viewport to view my scene, it fully freezes for 5-10 seconds. Than everything works ...
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How to Apply alpha/texture to the entire object
I am trying to apply this alpha/texture to my object without manually painting with the brush, as in some areas it comes out with larger dimensions or undesired shapes at the corners. I have attempted ...
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How to identify colliding faces/objects in the scene?
I have multiple objects in a scene I'm working on. Some of these objects are entering each other, I have to move my view to find where I need to make adjustments.
Instead of having to keep changing my ...
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How to get backface state for faces in view?
Is this value somewhere? I can only calculate faces that are not aligned to a view. But this method is not accurate.
Here is my simple method to select faces that not aligned to view
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How do I setup my camera to render the same as my viewport?
When I look through my camera view (or render a frame) it comes out with my wireframe lines being fuzzy and broken up (see below). While I am trying to fix this specific issue, my real question is ...
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Very thin edge lines in Edit mode
Why are my edge lines very thin in Blender 4.0.1.? Sometimes I can't even select them from a certain angle, and some vertex dots are invisible and I can't select them as well. In the end, I need to ...
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Material preview and UV viewports not showing image textures, but Material Tab Preview shows the texture
Pardon the awful seams!
I generated a 2048x2048 UV grid as an image texture for my objects, and it can be seen in the Materials tab preview but not the viewports themselves. The original "...
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I can't see the object in perspective mode?
I'm working on an environment project with geometry nodes, and I don't know what happened. I can only see the object through the camera, but when I change the view to top view or perspective, it's ...
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Header option gone?
I've used Blender a couple of times since the new Blender 4.0 release. It did not have any problems until recently when I opened Blender the header option was gone.
The essential tools to edit are ...
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Why isn't my render looking like my object in viewport shading?
I did this a while back, so most of my knowledge of blender has gone out the window. When I render my image the object is no loses its material from that's visible from viewport shading. Any idea how ...
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Does Object/Edit mode apply to an object or the viewport?
I'm fairly new to Blender, currently in Part 3 of the Donut Tutorial. So this question may be fairly naive.
The viewport has a dropdown menu for selecting the mode, which may be Object, Edit, Sculpt, ...
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Viewport shading and gizmos dissapeared after 4.0
In the layout tab, object mode and edit doesn't show the viewport shading, gizmo and overlays.
Sculpt mode works just fine.
I don't know what or why happened.
It started after i updated to 4.0, ...
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Object disappearing when rotating camera in Blender 4 [duplicate]
I have installed Blender 4 and after opening my previous file from v3 I got strange behavior about disappearing. Please, any idea how to fix this?
In those two images I just slightly rotated camera.
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How can this object change its volume based on the view mode I'm in?
I'm currently making a image based on a photo with CGI elements added to it. Therefore, I'm playing with holdouts and shadow catchers. But I'm having this really weird issue where the ground (that's ...
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What is happening with my sculpt tools/viewport?
I have just finished sculpting the body of my model and moved on to do the hands separately. I joined the objects, remeshed, and checked the normals of the final object. I have cleared masks and ...
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Why doesn't my object material show in Viewport shader?
I am having trouble seeing my Boat Materials in Rendered Viewport Shader Mode. It is only showing in materials.
Original project
Pack.Blend
Beige Wallpaper Jpg
Wood Wallpaper Jpg
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Eevee shadows not the same as Cycles; is there a fix?
Looks like generating accurate shadows is not something EEVEE can do. Or is there a fix I'm not aware of? I researched enough to learn that I had to turn "contact shadows" on, but that just ...
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I am not able to select any objects in a particular collection in the 3D viewport
I was working on something else other than the airplane and somehow the parts became unselectable in the 3D viewport. I cannot select any part on the airplane in the viewport but I can choose anything ...
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My sun light isn't rendering in EEVEE. how do I fix?
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The top image is the viewport view, that's how it should look. The bottom image is the rendered view :/
I am not new to Blender, yet I have no clue what's going on. "Scene Lights" are ...
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When rendering my object it is darker than the preview. How do I fix this
When looking at my object in preview it looks like this which is what I want
But when I render the object it looks like this
I have the scene world tab off because I tried looking for answers before ...
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Cant see my object that i imported FBX file
So the problem is when i import the models that i bought to blender they are become like this
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in blender when i open up, weird diagonal line
there is a line starting at the top left going to the bottom right. everything in the bottom left portion is normal, but the top right portion is a inverted version of the other, you cannot see ...
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Blender 4.0 bug? Object switch to transparent
Since I switched to Blender 4.0 I noticed that objects sometimes disappear depending on the viewing distance
very close: vanished or transparent in edit-dode
more distant: normal behaviour
The ...
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After upgrading from Blender 3.6 to Blender 4.0 Some Options got Missing
The Header Options got missing is there any way or Option to get it back?
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Missing Header Options/Buttons
It didn't happen to me but happened to someone in our group, I also found a similar question posted a year ago about the same bug, but there were no answers to that question either (or at least ...
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How to calculate ortho_scale of a viewport?
There is an addon that allows you to save the current viewport to the camera.
But the addon only works in perspective mode.
For orthographic mode, you need to calculate the ortho_scale of the viewport ...
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Accelerator keys in Blender 4.0
Does anybody know how to make accelerator keys to work in Blender 4.0 ?
Can it be fixed by an add-on?
They 'replaced' accelerator keys with a search bar.
I read UI dev discussion and I think their ...
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Help! Is this object rotation on a displaced surface a bug? I can't figure it out
I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something unknowingly to cause the issue, and at this point I'm feeling pretty stumped:
My render is not matching my viewport.
I've checked all modifiers ...
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I need help on not seeing the outside of my background scene in object
I am creating an ocean underwater scene. I've created a plane and extending the plane and subdivide it but when I use my camera to go underwater, when I go in Wireframe, Solid and even Cycles mode I ...
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Model with hair shows up black in rendered viewport shading
First off, I am a complete beginner, and I was following a very high-altitude tutorial. So I expect there is a box that I haven't checked. Here is what I see:
The model is supposed to look like ...
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Grease Pencil rendering and view port
When I use Grease Pencil I get this weird antialiasing or overlapping issue - the line is drawn on the surface with an offset - it's not going into the cube - furthermore I have Z passes enabled -
I'...
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Vertices only showing with X-ray on
I am following the Donut Blender tutorial and when I duplicated the top half of the donut to make the icing the icing's vertices only show when I go into X-ray mode. I have deleted and reduplicated it ...
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How can I make a perspective camera look like orthographic camera?
I'm using an addon that uses the camera view to imitate 2d outlines. While messing around with camera settings, I found ortho camera looks better than perspective for imitating 2d drawings. However ...
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Why all my textures are pink if there are no missing files? Even the default cube in a brand new project
Here is the default cube with the pink error and I haven't done anything to it or the scene. I know that pink texture means that a texture is missing, but in this case there are no real missing files.....
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Can see obscured geometry in orthographic view, while can't see it in perspective
For some reason I can see geometry that is supposed to be obscured when im in orthographic view, while in perspective
Orthographic view^
Perspective view^
How do I revert to not seeing obscured ...
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Motion Tracking Workspace problems
Scene Setup
Set as Background
Sets the clip currently being edited as the camera background for all visible 3D Views. If there is no visible 3D Views or the Clip Editor is open in full screen, nothing ...
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Why is the texture viewport mode not working only on this object?
As you can see the texture shows up on all objects except this one. What’s wrong?
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websites or software for creating a 3D character [duplicate]
Could you please guys give me some good websites or software for creating a 3D character so I can use my own character in Blender? it is kind of hard to create a character in Blender.
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Blender show the model in orthography mode as transparent, although all settings are turned off
I'm going crazy over this problem. I don't understand how it appeared.
The problem occurs in orthography mode.
The model looks like it's in X-ray mode, but it's not. I can see the outer surface and ...
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Features of the Blender viewport
I don't use Blender myself, and I was wondering if it's possible to "look up and down" in the viewport, like Quake? I know that EEVEE will let you "go in", ie. the UP key in Quake, ...
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How can I get a multi-colored object in the solid viewport display like in this Joey Carlino Tutorial?
I'm very new to Blender and I stumbled upon this tutorial Faces are EASY with this trick - Blender tutorial by Joey Carlino.
It's a very good tutorial and he explains everything well (I watched it ...
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Why is my cube in Blender just lines in the shape of a cube?
I don't know what I did but I looked back at my screen at first, the cube was transparent but I don't know what I pressed for it to become a line. I looked it up and they said, in Edit Mode, select ...
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Everything disappears when I frame select anything
I started watching Blender tutorials and one thing that I noticed on everyone of them is that when they frame select an object (using Numpad .) they focus and orbit the object and can see the ...
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When adding a basic object I can't find the option to display vertices
I'm encountering an issue when I add a basic object like a circle or cylinder to my scene, I can't seem to find the option to display the vertices. This is hindering my ability to edit and work with ...
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Bones displayed as sticks in edit mode don't appear selected
This might be a silly one but for the life of me I couldn't find an answer while googling. I'm doing a rigging tutorial and the author changes his bones to be displayed as sticks and they look pretty ...
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Color managements problem
I used to adding high color contrast by color management panel in my rendering. However, recently, I find out that the render viewport won't change by the influence of color management. What does the ...
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Why aren't my objects showing in object mode
I'm having trouble viewing my objects in the object mode, even when I click on them in the menu, I couldn't find them in the canvas. The only object visible is a spot light, could you help me see what'...
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Why does the mesh have sharp edges even though it has shade smooth?
I was checking my model in viewport "Material Preview", and I noticed that the mesh has sharp edges which is odd since it has "Shade Smooth" on it. This also effects the textures ...
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Why is camera view not visible in layout tab
I have scene like this, and if I press the view camera (numpad 0), it displays an empty screen. Please any idea how to solve it? It works in the shading tab, but not in the layout. In the layout, it ...
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Is it possible to view a shape throught a specific shader in camera view? Real time, eevee, no comp (kind of shader holdout)
The pupil is in front of the head. Is it possible to make it visible only in the white part of the eye according to the camera view? Like a kind of shader holdout inverted and limited to mask the ...
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