Questions tagged [append]
Questions relating to appending assets from one .blend file to another .blend file.
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How can I reuse existing materials, objects, etc from an existing .blend?
I have created several designs for a particular project and they are related, but I don't want to have to keep recreating any similar elements, such as shared materials or textures.
How can I use the ...
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How to Link/Append a data-block using the Python API?
I'm searching a way to append a group in Python.
It should behave exactly like the Append function (ShiftF1) works, all objects should be local and editable. The idea is to append a character (with ...
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What is the differance between Linking and Appending an external blend?
What is the differance between Linked and Appended data from external .blend files?
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How to link/append with a Python script? [duplicate]
I want to append an element from another Blend file by a script. I found the Blender operator bpy.ops.wm.append which should do what I want. However, the API documentation is a bit unclear:
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How to add a custom object entry to the add menu?
Hello I am creating an addon for blender. I have rigged a character, with controller handlers, sliders to control the rig, etc.
I need now to understand how to create a custom 3D menu to append the ...
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How to make a Text File dependent of an Armature object so that it appends with it to other projects?
If you ever used BlenRig, you may have noticed that it pops up a text file in your text editor called "generate_customprops.py". This is a python script that the rig uses for various purposes such as ...
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How to add an object from another scene? [duplicate]
I'm am trying to create a scene in Blender, by adding in another object from a previously created scene that is on a separate .blend file. How can I do this?
I have tried to append an object from one ....
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Change linked object to appended?
I have linked maybe 20 objects into one blender file, but now I want to change it to appended objects. I want to use this blender file in Unity, and it seems the objects get broken if I include linked ...
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Appended group opening in original location
So I appended a group of objects to my level in BGE, but every time I reopen it (the level) the appended groups go back to the location at which they are saved in their own individual files. How do I ...
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How can I import materials from another blender file with python?
I have many files containing different parts of my blender internal material collection. How can I make a script which imports all of them into another blend file?
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How to append many objects without appending materials [duplicate]
Is there any option, to append many objects without appending their materials?
Example: I have scene1.blend with cube object ...
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Append python script for Blender 2.8 [duplicate]
I'm trying to write a script to append an Object or a Collection from a blend file to a new file. Can someone please point what I'm doing wrong?
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Python Operator: Context is Incorrect
I currently am writing python operator whith the task of appending the current scene into a new file and then linking it back into the original file. There is one problem: When loading a new file the ...
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How do i copy material from one .blend file to another? [duplicate]
I have two different files (rigs) which I would like to append one to the other, I did this by appending the object of one. Although now the material of this object is missing. How do i append it?
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Why have my appended objects lost their rigid body settings?
I am working on a scene in which a wrecking ball on a chain crashes through numerous glass cubes.
I created the chain and ball in a different blender file to work more quickly, since the numerous ...
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How can I append an object from an external blender file using a relative path with Python?
How do I append a custom object from an external blender file using relative paths so I can pack the file with the addon? I can append the file easily with absolute path like this but I could fined ...
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How to imitate Ambient Occlusion in Cycles?
I created an object with some basic shading and Ambient Occlusion switched on and thus getting the right look. Now that I need to paste it in my main project (through Append) I need the same effect ...
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How do I append a text in a blend file from within an addon?
Total rewrite of my question
From this post, I've greatly simplified my approach:
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How to Append a world with HDRi and nodes from another blendfile?
I can Append things from another blendfile if they're in Collections or various other groupings, but when I do Append -> blendfile -> World and select the World object, I get nothing appended. ...
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Why is the generate rig button greyed out?
I have appended a Rigify metarig from the Armature category from an older blend file via the File > Append... main menu. In the older project, the metarig's (Re-)Generate Rig button is not grayed ...
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Appending an Object Without A Link
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I am trying to append an object in a .blend file using.
How:
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Append an object without its associated objects
When I append an object, it also appends a lot of other associated objects, such as it's rig, and even the rig's custom shapes. And if I append an armature object (not just the data), then i also get ...
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Coverting an appended object into a linked object?
"Is it possible to convert a previously appended object into a linked object. So as to retain the animation on the appended object after converting or replacing it with the linked proxy version?"
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Why does this action look different after being appended?
I'm trying to import an action from an old project into a new project. When I do so, the animation just doesn't look right.
Here's the action in the old project:
And here it is in the new project:
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Re-import updated CAD model into blender, retain existing surface materials and settings [duplicate]
Good day everyone.
I am an Architect who primarily works in Archicad, Revit and SketchUp. I recently started to learn my way around Blender as I would like to use it as an Architectural visualization ...
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How can I make link group that look like this image, and how to make that group to my local asset so i cant edit mesh, material, texture of it
I'm blender beginner. I have a blend file called "final". And I have the other blend file call "origin".
How can I link the group name beigeBook of the "origin" blend file and add it to the ...
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With python how do I append cameras and lights from another file? [duplicate]
I am trying to append cameras and lights from one .blend file to another, like this:
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Deleted objects appear when Appending model
I've been having this strange issue since I started using Blender, and I cannot find any information about it anywhere online.
The issue is, whenever I append a model into another file, it Appends ...
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Is there a way to append all materials in a Blender files with Python?
What I usually do is assign all my materials to a Cube and append it, and the materials just come with it.
The problem is that bpy.ops.wp.append() require a ...
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How to replace an existing material with one from other blend file with python?
Currently, I'm working on a lot of files imported from Autodesk Maya to be rendered in Blender 2.8 EEVEE. And of course, the material looks bad when rendered. And will be a lot of work to fix all of ...
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How to ID NLA strips for appending elsewhere
I have a source file containing a character and its animated actions. This master file serves as a control repository for the character: All of its actions are kept here, stored as NLA strips. I give ...
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How to append a scene from an existing .blend file to the current .blend file? [duplicate]
I just want to append a scene (named "fred" which is the ONLY scene in the file) to the existing open blend file. Seems like this should be easy, but I can't find out how to do this. So, after the ...
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Problem with appending model after previous linking
Just starting to add external models to my scenes. I first tried linking a model but found that it wasn't really suitable for what I wanted since I couldn't apply changes or edit the model. I deleted ...
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