Questions tagged [empty]
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Filling space inside cookie cutter
I'm trying to 3D print a cookie cutter but it has a space in it, I want to fill it but I don't know how, I'm a beginner, it has so many triangles that I don't know what's the best approach.
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Two "identical" projects - one adds a -90 rotation to an object on creating FBX, but the other does not. Why? Is this a bug?
I am attempting to create FBX files from a Blender project for game development. However, I have encountered an irregular behavior I cannot explain and it is causing problems. I am not clear if this ...
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Blender renders, but the saved output - and render window - is empty; can't render more than HD
It's a simple scene, two spaceships, an animated camera, sun and 18k HDRI from TrueSpace (blender addon); 580k polys. It was working great before, but during a long render - Cycles GPU - to RGBA 16bit ...
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Sometimes camera rotates with targeted empty, sometimes not. Why?
I have a blend file where the camera, constrained to an empty, rotates when I rotate the empty. This is what I want to happen. I have another blend file where the camera will not rotate when I rotate ...
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Parent with empty groups problem. Cloth
To make the simulation easier when adding the pants, I moved the character's legs a bit in pose mode. Then, with the whole rig selected in pose mode, I hit ctrl A and "apply selected as rest pose&...
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Lost faces creating first donut
Hello not sure what I did or how to bring it back, but this space was empty when I went to start manually sculpting the drips. After saving and loading back into blender the area is filled but no ...
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How to set texture interpolation for Empty Images?
You can change the texture interpolation for images used as textures for objects in the Image node under the Shader Editor.
Here you can change it to various interpolation method, in this example I'...
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empties_to_bones [closed]
With Blender 3.4, Windows 11 I have an imported model with some empties that could have been attachment points and I'd like to use them (for building object), I found this plugin but even after ...
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How do I Parent a Camera to a Empty with only one axis as a constraint?
As you can see in the above example, the create parent with transform is making the camera move in all the rotation and location keys, I want the camera to move only specifically for the Z axis of the ...
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How do I make empties following a path follow the entire mesh when its location is changed?
So I am currently trying to model a 3D printer from the reference https://www.3dwasp.com/en/giant-3d-printer-bigdelta-wasp-12mt/. I modelled the support on which the arms are mounted with geometry ...
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Empty as parent for armature
I need to change the height of the game character and to avoid deformation, I am trying to do it according to this post, but it is a little unclear to me.
So could I please ask for clarification:
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Rotation animation of empty object and the keyframes seem to be the problem
I'm trying to animate an empty object that should rotate to create an animation only with the keyframe and the empty need to do a full rotation for the animation but every time I try to put 360 degree ...
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How do I animate my object with empties without breaking all of my other animations?
I am having an issue with this model. It has to be a functional technical model (meaning all of the doors and flaps must be able to move). I have done that but now that I need to animate moving the ...
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Stretching + array with object offset = bug?
I created a torus, stretched it (X=1.3), and added an Array modifier (n=5) with an Object Offset (an Empty that does nothing).
The effect is that the stretch is applied to the original copy. it's ...
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Proportional editing controllers for animation
Is there a way to make controllers to deform some specifics vertices like they would act in proportional editing? ( no shapekeys )
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How do i add multiple control for this geometry node
I was looking around and found this cool geometry project from RSN 3D's youtube channel, and i wanted to ask that can you make both empty effect both cube at the same time?
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How to get and enumerate all the object.empty_display_type in python?
I would like to build a enum function that returns me all types of empty_diplay_type that exist, I am aware of the ones that currently exist, but I am creating a property that needs to change the ...
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Assign coordinates from a list to objects
I have a list with Z-values and a number of sub-collections in the Blender tree. My idea is to create an Empty object in each of the sub-collections and assign the corresponding Z-values of the list ...
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Why is object origin stuck to 3D cursor? How to get it unstuck?
Why is the origin of this empty stuck on the 3D cursor? How do I get it unstuck?
Setting the origin to geometry doesn’t fix it. Thanks. Blender 3.2.2, Windows 11
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I´m appending a collection to my scene, but it comes out empty
I´m appending a collection that has a rigged character on it. It shows up in my new scene, but it is empty. I have done it before with the other characters. How to fix it ??
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Directing empties with geonodes
There is a cone and two empties. How to make, using geo nodes, so that the base of the cone is attached to one empty, and the top is always directed towards the second empty? Something like "...
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How to re-align objects with the array modifier
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I'm following a tutorial on YouTube(https://youtu.be/3cjrRLbEtXo) where I'm supposed to create a gear-like structure on a castle.
In following the tutorial, I'm supposed to apply an Empty, and then ...
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Moving a texture with UV warp modifier and an empty
I asked a question with an old account about moving eye textures and got an answer about using empties and the UV warp modifier. I cannot seem to find the question itself, so was wanting to know if ...
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Parent an empty to an animated geometry node object [closed]
I would like to parent an empty to the glass of a window created and animated procedurally. Unfortunately I know really little about geometry nodes and I don't understand how I could parent an ...
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Empty object is invisible
Im using an empty cube to act as a target for an animation, but for some reason when I opened my project, all my empties had gone and i don't know how to fix it. Any tips?
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How do I animate instances from their pivot point with one empty?
If you create instances of an object with a particle system, how do you then animate them from each origin point (pivot point) with one empty?
Here is a plane, parented to an empty placed at the ...
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Don't understand Array anymore. No clear circular array around empty. Size Problem
Rotate Empty with 360/6 to get a 6 spoke rim, but the elements are everywhere with increasing sizes. I didn't activated it. Where does this come from?
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Why does this code behave differently as a script than when entered on the console?
I have a grid, (subdivided plane) open in edit mode. If I run the attached script by pasting it into the python console, it creates an empty, adds a hook to the grid, and makes the empty the hook's ...
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Alternative ways to add rotation to an object?
I baked a rigid body simulation of a ball falling down the stairs. The ball's trajectory is ok, but I want to add additional rotation to the ball. The simulation is baked to keyframes. It would be ...
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Why are the Emptys moving forward faster?
**In this animation, the Emptys move faster than the rest for an inexplicable reason. Sorry, I can’t upload a video. If anyone has an idea how to fix this, I’d be very happy to. **
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Mirror Modifier, cant move my object closer/over axis. Clipping is not woorking
I mirrored my object (rings on the bottom of the object) on a empty object that i placed right in the middle (Only way to creae what I want I think). So now I want to merge the Area that is on top but ...
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Make instances rotate outwards according to proximity using geometry nodes
I have instanced some grass on a plane, and i want an empty (or mesh, or whatever works) to go trough it, while folding, or rotating grass away so it makes a path. Ive been trying to do this with ...
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Mirroring Blender 3.0 is not doing what I want it to do? How to get them into the right place?
I want to get the bed legs from the left to be mirrored to the right.
Whenever I try the legs don't get on the right spot
Whenever I add a mirror modifier and click Y then they are in the middel of ...
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Can you turn off object visibility in a separate window?
Just for the sake of modeling something, I wanted to have two Blender windows, each on separate monitors and have one show the model and empty references images and the other to only show the model. ...
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