Questions tagged [blend-files]
Blend files or .blend files are the zip like archive or format in which Blender stores data.
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How do I organize a character's modular equipment for a game engine?
Say that I want a character with many modular sets of clothing and weapons, I don't want them all to be loaded in at the same time as the character they're attached to in Godot (as I believe it would ...
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Did I break my .blend file by moving it? Can I fix it?
EDIT: See update below, posted based on results of two comments received.
I finished Part 5 of the donut tutorial v4, and I think things looked pretty good:
Original file location, Viewport Shading =...
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how to save my file in (fbx) [closed]
dears,
I got a problem when I tried to save my file in (FBX)
I need help plz.
LINK:
https://workupload.com/file/bJAQB8AsysQ
NOTE: must of converted the website that convert Blender to FBX doesn't work ...
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opening files from blender 4.0 to 2.79b
I mainly use the newest blender version (4.0) but my school uses 2.79b and can't update from that. What can I do to open files from the newest version to 2.79b
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How do I import materials, assets, textures to asset browser that are not .blend files?
I have a huge folder of materials I collected over the course of my blender journey and I want them to appear in the asset library so it's easy for me to pick them and apply. But they are not .blend ...
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Why the project file getting bigger and bigger [duplicate]
I have already tried to purge and clean. but the file still contains a lot of textures that belong to no meshes and there's no way to sort all those files at once but to delete them one by one. and ...
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The size of my blend file is larger than expected (>1 GB). How can I make it smaller?
I tried a lot to decrease the file size even compressing the file, decimate method, but things didn't worked well. Even remeshed it but it created a problem of less detailing in the sculpting. Anyone ...
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Library Override Rig Only
I'm linking a character to a new file and I will be posing/animating it in that file. And that character will be duplicated many times and posed differently (like an army for example).
My question is: ...
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Appearing of unkown file name in autosave recover
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I saved my file today with name riot face making.blend but i found i did mistake so i thought to recover the yesterday progress. So as soon i opened recover autosave i saw a file name copybuffer....
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Blender file not opening
I encountered an issue with a Blender project I was working on, where attempting to open it resulted in a gray screen with the Blender logo in the top left corner, followed by an eventual crash. I ...
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When trying to open a .blend file created on Mac on Windows, Blender always instantly crashes
When I try to open a .blend file on my Windows, one I've created on my Mac, it opens up and a grey screen appears shortly. In the top left corner you can read the file path but then Blender crashes ...
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How to edit multiple external reference paths
I have a large directory tree of an old project created by someone else that has been moved around.
Now there are many blend files with broken absolute links to textures, alembic caches, render output ...
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How to attach all the textures in my scene to blender
I created a project on my computer but as my computer has trouble rendering heavy scenes I send it to a render farm, so it can be faster.
The problem starts when the botaniq assets (the plugin I use ...
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How can I set the color/material of an object added/appended from another file?
It is not possible to set the color of the object added from the file. What am I doing wrong?
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Cant find backups of .blend files from months ago
So a couple of months ago I modeled a realistic human model but ended up redoing it in the same file, but looking back I wish I had the version of the model from 3 months ago, but in my autosaves ...
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Why in blender when I try to open a specific file it crashes? [closed]
If I open any other file and append an armature from the specific file, blender closes immediately, but I can import all the other object from the file.
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Can anyone tell me the best alternate to Geolayers addon for Aftereffects in blender
I want to animate maps as it is like in this video created using Adobe After effects and Geolayers Plugin.
Maps with Malaysia highlighted
I have searched through Youtube but failed to find the right ...
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is there a way to collect all filepath-information within a blender-file?
After a crash of a HD with lots of blend-files I only have files with no names and structure.
I've got a little programm to check if it's a blend-file, made with this class: https://formats.kaitai.io/...
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Get access to images paths with external text editor (SublimeText for Example)
I want to quickly manipulate images paths in blender files with SublimeText as lists.
Maybe I can open blend. files like Zip Archives and edit data-blocks as simple text files?
Maybe I can quickly ...
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Blender 3.5 file crash after increasing subdivisions
I cranked up the subdivisions on a mesh in my scene and the file totally froze up - now any attempt at opening it will crash Blender. Is that scene just not workable anymore or is there a way to solve ...
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Putting huge blender folder from pc to external harddrive [duplicate]
I'm almost out memory on my computer. I just bought an external harddrive. I have a huge gb blender folder on my pc. is there a way to put this file on my external harddrive without losing all the ...
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Best practices for collaboration [closed]
We are working on an internal project with several people on a Blender file. This file serves as a template for a rendering pipeline in which various parameters, objects, etc. are adjusted during ...
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Imported .FBX file won't pack as resources
I downloaded a Free Wheat.fbx file and imported the content into blender.
I have toggled the Automatically Pack Resources on.
I try to save the file as a blend file, but it gives a warning that an ...
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.fbx imported in Blender won't show up in rendered image [duplicate]
I imported a .fbx Lavender plant and vase into blender. I scale it up and go ahead to render. In its rendered image, only the vase is displayed, the plant itself is no where to be found.
What I have ...
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Why do my Blender files automatically import to Unity
I am making a game in Unity, and I am using Blender to make the 3d models. However, whenever I save one of my 3d models, even when it is unfinished, it gets imported to Unity without me doing anything....
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Orphan/lost data when renaming a property
I'm registering a property to the grease pencil:
bpy.types.GreasePencil.old_property_name = bpy.props.PointerProperty(type=MyCustomClass)
I've decided to refactor/...
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Refactoring a type (PointerProperty) and rename (old) data in .blend files
I have a little question.
I registered this property in GreasePencil:
bpy.types.GreasePencil.old_property_name = bpy.props.PointerProperty(type=MyCustomClass)
I ...
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Blender API - Use data-block name as if condition
I'm trying to make a python script that searches for an existing camera data-block in the scene and creates it if not found.
I've gone with a rather simple code:
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Mantaflow Fire Sim Apply And Move Blend
I have created a Manataflow Fire sim and have identified the frame I want from the sim. I need to take this object and import it into a different blend to incorporate into an animation.
The issue I'm ...
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Set property/value across all sculpt brushes?
I have purchased a set of 80+ sculpting brushes. Their quality is degraded (distortion) because the falloff is set to "Smooth" instead of "Constant," and their strength value is ...
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Bug for export my project
Good morning,
One of my Blender project bug. I don’t have access to my main menu and therefore can’t export my project. Can you help me?
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Open a Blender 3.5 file in Blender 3.4 and earlier
Is there any way to open a blend file made in Blender 3.5 in older versions of Blender? I'd go the FBX route, but I want to preserve the rig.
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Blender file increases dramatically, when bending complex objects
My project consists of complex objects, it visualizes architecture. When one of the complex objects I join (CRTL+J), the Blender file increases dramatically from 500 MB to 2.5 GB.
Can anything be done ...
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Is Blender 3.4 unable to open or save blend files with a different extension than .blend?
I'm using 2.93 on a regular bases, our unity workflow relies on the fact that we rename .blend files to .uniblend in order to avoid unity to import them while still being visible in Unity explorer.
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How to create this object?
anyone know how to create this object using Blender. I tried several times but it's too hard for me. Please help me
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Thanks, moonboots! I watched your tutorial. It's really helpful. Thank you ...
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blender foundation properties folder how to change location from C/Drive To another [duplicate]
blender foundation properties folder how to change location from C/Drive
hi i am currently facing some storage shortage issues on my SSD (128gb) of my laptop as i can't upgade it anytime soon in the ...
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I need help with the "File format not supported in file" Error please
I've been working on this blender file for a while now and I wanted to do more work on it. I opened blender but an error showed up when I chose the file I've been working on. It said "file format ...
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Odd Vanishing Visual Glitch (Both in Viewport and Render)
I was prepping a render for a customer which involved this Mass Effect scene. But recently I updated my graphics drivers and PC and now even when I redownload the scene I still have an odd glitch.
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How do I move IK models from one blend project to another?
I have two different models using IK and I was wondering how to transfer one model to the other's blend project without losing IK constraints.
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Blender file keep crashing
Somehow one of my blender files won’t open after crashing.
I keep getting this message that says blender quit unexpectedly every time l tried to open it.
I check the file size. It's only 107MB and l ...
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Fill Irregular Area
I have searched similar problems but I was not able to figure it out. I am trying to fill this area. Ideally, I want there to be a small indent so you can see the outer area is raised compared to it.
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Swap a linked object with a new version in another file [duplicate]
I have some modelers who have been updating several files, they've been keeping iterations of the file, so we have several versions with minor changes. I'm trying to now update them in the linked ...
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blender won't load file
I've been working on a character and everything was fine last night but this morning when I try to open the file it gets stuck loading, I've checked my Activity Monitor and the memory pressure etc is ...
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Why is the element type in the list data_from.scenes changing to another type?
I have the following script. What exactly is happening in the background, why does the element type in data_from.scenes[0] change from ...
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Force shading to a specific mode when opening a file
If you save and close a Blender file with the shading mode set to Material Preview, once you reopen the file the shading mode is still set this way. In the case of complex scenes with lots of ...
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Is there a way to get feedback on the size of different files used in a Blender project?
I teach Blender in an art class and students have often difficulties knowing why their file is getting so big, in terms of project file size.
It's often because they download materials with a lot of ...
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Is there a way to extract brush textures (alphas) from a .blend file? [duplicate]
https://www.blendswap.com/blend/20195
I downloaded the rock brushes from the link above to use in blender. I would like to use these same textures in ZBRUSH as alphas, but I cannot figure out how to ...
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Nvidia GeForce MX110 [duplicate]
I'm thinking of getting a laptop with 4gb VRAM GeForce MX110, I want to know if that works with blender. And how long does the BMW benchmark take for anyone with a similar GPU?
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Impossible to locate missing files
I have a broken links in my blend, i tried to use the "find missing files" operator, however it systematically throw an error messages about missing jpeg or .blends, not even used in this ...
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