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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How do I Fix this blue color and ramdomized coloring on donut icing
I am currently learning blender as a beginner with blender guru tutorial and I came up with an issue with random color on incing on second donut and also there is some other issue also persist with ...
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How fix the issue so I am able to see boolean text in Solid and Material because all of the modifiers was already applied including boolean? Pls help?
I can see engraved (boolean) "barbie" text on heart necklace in wireframe but not solid and material view in Blender 4.2.1.
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Render viewport image different from final render image
New to Blender. But I plan on making a scientific journal cover. I tried to create a test image following videos of YouTube but I keep getting a final rendered image that is very different from the ...
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Visibility viewports\renders togglable option for specific collection of animations
I have a set of POV hand animations (4, to be precise). One animation is called unsheathe, wich is basic unsheathing animation. I also have Sword object with sword armature (a single bone). So i've ...
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How can I Align an existing Object to the 3D Viewport's XY Plane?
When adding a Plane object, it currently aligns with the world’s X-Y plane at the 3D Cursor's location and can be aligned to the X-Y plane of the active 3D Viewport using this method. This method only ...
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Can't change keymap for "View Roll" in Blender 4.2
I am trying to remap "view roll" (originally Shift + Numpad 4) to (4).
To be clear, remap it to "4" in the main section of the keyboard, not in the numpad section.
I saved the ...
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How do I zoom in on a location without an empty?
I'm currently limited in my zoom ability in the viewport. I would like to be able to zoom in on the cursor indefinitely but instead I place an empty there and zoom in on it. The smaller the scale of ...
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Shading issues along seam in 4.1 but not 3.6
I recently decided to make the move to 4.1 and imported a mesh that was created in 3.6 over to 4.1. In 3.6, it doesn't have any shading issues at all, but in 4.1, there's some really odd visuals ...
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blender 4.2 viewport looks very off for low poly models
When I load models into blender 4.2 they look very washed out with no detail which is making it difficult to work on.
Below are some examples with default settings of both blender 4.2 and blender 3.6....
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Blender: How to change the viewport color for a line or curve [duplicate]
Viewport colors seem to apply only to faces and, hence, not to 2D curves. Is there a way to change the color of 2D curves (bezier, mesh, NURBS) in the viewport?
My application requires extensive 2D ...
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Disabling Multi-View/stereoscopy in viewports
When using Multi-View to render many cameras—oddly exposed under "Stereoscopy"—how do I make it so that the viewports aren't showing red/blue? I'm not making a stereoscope, I'm just trying ...
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MacOS - How to assign CMD key to Pan shortcuts?
Just trying to assign more familiar shortcuts for viewport panning that work better on a MacBook without a three button mouse.
Using the Macbook's trackpad, I can assign...
OPT + SHIFT + CLICK = Pan
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Extruding a face causes glossy or seemingly smooth-shaded faces where there shouldn't be
I was practicing in Blender 4.1 by making some simple shapes and texturing them. An example is this slab shown in material preview and solid mode. I noticed when extruding one of its faces, the ...
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Object shows wireframe in Render Preview Mode
Some Object shows wireframe in Render Preview Mode. How can I avoid this?
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I'm only able to view the axis of selected object in the viewport when move tool is activated manually
Currently when I select the object in outliner I have to manually hit the move tool in the toolbar to display the axis of the selected objects:
Is there a hotkey shortcut to active the move tool as ...
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X-ray mode stopped working in Material Preview in a specific file
I have a specific .blend file I'm working with where X-ray mode seems to no longer be working in Material Preview, in Edit Mode. When I turn it on, all it does is make the edges of the mesh kinda ...
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How can I get info report to show up before subprocess call?
How can I ensure an info message is displayed before a subprocess call in Blender? When executing a script from the 3D Viewport using F3 and running the operator, ...
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Is there any short key to bring view to 3D cursor?, Like the dot (.) for selected object viewing
If we far away from origin and set origin to world center how to get there quickly?
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Guidance on creating a rotating string of cylinders
I'm new to Blender and already trying to achieve super technical stuff! lol! Take a look at the DNA looking strand of rods in the hero image of this website. https://www.neoculturalcouture.com/ I'm ...
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How to Make Modal Code Run All the Time?
I'm very much a noob at this, both coding and blender, so sorry in advance. People have mentioned it before, sorry again, I followed a bunch of guides and I'm just trying to get stuff to work.
Anyway, ...
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How do I select faces vertices or faces that are visible in the 3d viewport and unobstructed by other faces of any mesh in the 3d viewport
Title kind of says it all: how do I select faces vertices or faces that are visible in the 3d viewport and unobstructed by other faces of any mesh in the 3d viewport
I am trying to get the viewport ...
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Object moves in opposite direction from the axes
I am currently working on a model which requires an array of the same object following a curve. In order to have the array of objects facing the appropriate direction along the curve, I had to apply a ...
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Compositor in Viewport : footage and render misalignment
I'm trying to add elements to a footage. To be able to align the elements in real-time, I'm using the viewport option Compositor > Camera. My issue is that the footage and the render don't align ...
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Integration of Mapbox key in blender for the 3D building
Can we import 3D buildings from Mapbox direct into blender or there is any other way to import buildings. I am not talking about OSM. I want to import mapbox buidlings
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Timeline can't be set to start in a negative frame
I enabled the option 'Allow negative frames' in the Preferences, but it's not working. I can only set the current time to a negative frame, but not the timeline start.
What do I do? I suspect there ...
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How to keep text always facing to viewport?
How to keep texts always align to viewport? I mean viewport, not a camera.
Just like this
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is there a way to lock the viewport render resolution?
I'm checking shots in the viewport render but they look slightly different to the actual finished render. all the settings are the same, that's not the issue. it's because the viewport render uses ...
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I can't find the add-on, Add Mesh: Extra Objects on Blender 4.2 [duplicate]
I'm very new to blender, just downloaded the software an hour ago. I have blender 4.2 downloaded. I'm trying to follow a simple tutorial on youtube but I can't find the add-on Add Mesh: Extra object ...
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How to add color/texture to eyes?
I have a model that has eyes but no eye textures/color. I'm wondering how to add color to the eyes, like the iris and white part, without having to model a completely new eye.
Thanks in advance.
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Why Isn't My Object Showing [duplicate]
I don't know why but it isn't showing the object, I hid it to make something else, but when I unhide it, it doesn't show up, why? Is there anyway to fix it?
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Fill a face with only 2 sides known
I am farily new to blender.
Is there a way to fill in a face with only 2 edges as shown in the diagram.
I understand that blender cannot guess what shape I want from only 2 sides however in this case ...
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How can rotate along the vertical axis of the window
I want to use the middle mouse button to rotate and check the model I have made
When I drag the mouse from left to right, I find that it rotates along the z-axis of the global coordinate system
How ...
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Add text information directly to the viewport for 5 sec
I am trying to add text information directly to the viewport so that it would be displayed for 5 seconds after the button is pressed and then disappear. I have not been able to realize this using ...
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How can I rig human-looking face onto a 3d FLAME mesh talking head?
Noob question here as I've just started working with Blender and 3d models:
I'm currently working with Blender 3.4.1 and I'm using Python script which runs blender on ...
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Why can't I move my camera while in camera mode?
I just started a new project and for some reason when I'm in camera mode, there's no square/rectangle to show what would be in the rendered view and I can't move the camera in camera mode. I can move ...
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What is wrong with my view?
So I'm having issues with my view. When I try to zoom in, the view doesn't go through objects no matter how far I zoom toward my selection. I have no idea what to try, nor what to ask to get hints (...
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How do I increase the vertex size in the interface?
In one video I saw that one person has his vertex much bigger than usual, how can I do the same?
In video:
Me:
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How to change location and rotation of view in blender evenly
From Orthogonal view (eg. hitting 1 on the numpad) I want my view in Blender (not the camera) to change the position in terms of location and rotation so that it rotates both along a fixed radius and ...
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Left Mouse Click reverts to Top Orthographic View
I'm a beginner on the steep learning curve. I'm working my way through a tutorial and have reached a road block. When I got to the section on shading of the tutorial, every Left Mouse Click switches ...
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Clipping in Eevee Rendered View
I've found this issue just today. When I enter rendered view with Eevee, my viewport just starts doing this. In material view I get this weird green...volume? around my scene This also happens to some ...
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why my ball rig file not show in viewport after linked or append it?
As a beginner in blender, I downloaded a ball rig file to practice ball movement and bouncing. However, I am unable to linked or append it to the blender viewport. I am seeking guidance to solve this ...
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How do i view quad tessellation in viewport?
I'm seeking a method to visually inspect the tessellation lines of each quad in my mesh directly within the viewport. Blender typically applies a smoothing algorithm upon face creation, but this ...
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How to select only individual vertices in Edit Mode?
Feel like I should know how to fix this but I'm stumped. In Edit Mode, when I select part of my mesh and delete the vertices, some of the back is also deleted.
I didn't select the back when I was ...
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Missing zoom/hand/camera/perspective gizmos
Said gizmos are missing in the 3D viewport. I can see the gimbal gizmo, and everything is on in the Viewport Gizmos submenu. Any way to bring them back? I’m using Blender 4.1 now, but I also have 3.1 ...
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gaps in mesh in render view? not in viewport shaded view [duplicate]
gaps in mesh assembly in render view in viewport
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Show/Debug Normals from an "Object Info" node - use those normals as input for a displacement GN network
Is it possible, in a Geometry Nodes network, to retrieve the normals from
a given Geometry "Object" different from the Geometry that holds the GN modifier.
Currently, I have made a "...
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Why is it a struggle to zoom into smaller objects?
I just shrunk a few objects to their actual real-life size- two donuts and a countertop. The screen isn't frozen and everything else seems to work just fine. I can zoom in or pan around the large ...
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When I right click, the selected object disappears
I am pretty new to blender, so I don't know if this is intended or not. Lately, whenever I press right click, the object selected disappears or unlinks. This is pretty annoying since I want to box ...
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How do I get out of active object mode?
I don't think it's actually called active object mode, illustrator just kind of does the same thing and that's what it's called. I was working on a single curve in my scene, then accidentally hit ...
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Oblique object Numpad view problem
I have an oblique object that is NOT in the center of the 3D viewport. How can I have a front, side and a top view with Numpad 1, 3 and 7 like with an object in the 3D viewport center ?
(Not a period(...
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