Questions tagged [groups]
Prior to Blender version 2.8, Groups were a means of organizing and instancing multiple objects, which could be manipulated as one. Use this tag for questions pertaining to Groups in version 2.79 and earlier versions of Blender. For more recent versions, see the [collections] tag.
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bpy.ops.group.create(name='Leaves') does not create the group named "Leaves"
I am trying to use an old script to generate random trees.
The Blender version is 2.79b and the whole script can be seen here:
https://github.com/tduboudi/IAMPS2019-Procedural-Fruit-Tree-Rendering-...
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Geometry Nodes: Make all Groups single User at once?
Is there a way to make all the groups in a geometry nodes set up single user at once?
I don't really understand why they keep being linked to the original ones when you have already made the Set up ...
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Ungroup with changing transform
When I delete the group, my character loses the group rotation and scale, so how do I take my mesh out of a group without losing the transform? And ⎈ Ctrl⎇ AltG makes my mesh disappear
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Remove button from Edit mode in Materials dissapeared
I dont know if im missing something but the remove button that appears in-between assign and select doesnt show anymore.
It might be something simple but i dont know what happened.
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How can I group many animations under a single name?
I'm quite new into animating in Blender, so I'm currently very confused about how to do simple things. I need to program something in Javascript and I have to animate a car being roofless. The thing ...
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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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I can't group several objects into one, I used to press Ctrl+G it turned out not now [duplicate]
I can't group several objects into one, I used to press Ctrl + G it turned out not now, how can I solve this problem?
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selection group
Imagine I have 10 objects in my scene.
I keep needing to select object 1,6 and 9 to do something.
Is there a way to name this group? Say 169.
I dont want to group/parent/put in container. This "...
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Node group and using multiple geometries / objects
I'm trying to create an object cutter node group then add it to my asset manager.
Example: you have two objects and one object is used to cut out a hole from another
one.
I can get the nodes to work ...
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How to gradually hide/unhide a group of objects?
I want to gradually hide/unhide a group of objects (ctrl-j). For example, I have 2 nested spheres with a radius=1cm and radius 2cm. Both have different materials. Opportunities I have found so far.
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select vertices in a vertex group
I have a problem, I use a mesh of about 230,000 vertices and 500,000 faces, it contains vertex groups, suppose you have to query a vertex group database and this returns some of them that you want to ...
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Parent specific objects to empty with python?
So basically i have a few cubes in my scene, i want to parent all the thin cubes to the empty in python, i know i would start with a sort of detection system in python to detect which cubes to select,
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Why do all the objects get the same color?
I try to give different base colours to my objects but when I define a base colour for one object, a couple of objects get the same colour at the same time. made a new material for those ones to ...
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Add a GroupNode to all objects except 1 specific one with Python
Does anyone have a clue how to do this?
In python code i have a button that selects all my objects in the scene except 1 object named ‘PLANE’.
Those objects have all a material (Principled BSDF and ...
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Is there a way to replace an object with another one AND its children?
I want to replace several objects with a group of objects each. So I tried it with a parent group and linked the data oft the parent with the objects I want to replace, but it only links the data of ...
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A single node that affect multiple meshes
I have a lot of meshes of hair ( with their own node setup/uvs/textures/materials ) that forms a complete haircut.
How can i make a node , like a color ramp , that will affect all these meshes at the ...
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Why do my grouped material nodes not appear as a box? [duplicate]
In this tutorial, when the user groups some material nodes (at around 8m25s), they appear as a box which he can rename.
When I follow this step, my whole node background goes a shade of green. The ...
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How to add more objects to an animation group?
I'm new to animating in Blender. The issue is I've created a simple space ship object and animated it. Working great! I then used Random Flow mesh generator (great 3rd party addon!) to create ...
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Is there a way to fill tiny holes leftover when joining meshes together?
I merged/joined some planes when transforming them with the polytool. I saw that this 2 tiny holes were left. Is there a way to fill them or get rid of them?
edit:
Here is the file: https://drive....
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Blender 3.0.0 - How to use a vertex group in geometry nodes?
Does anyone know a way I can utilize vertex groups to limit the instancing in v. 3.0.0 ?
Here is a thread explaining nicely what I'm also trying to do. The thing is, 3.0.0 Beta apparently removed ...
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Checkered Texture from Nodes
Greetings dear 3D artists!
I am trying to create a checkered material from groups of nodes. I am using the following groups of nodes:
'Checkers V2.0' - Generates checkered material.
'Grid' - Generates ...
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How to rotate many objects around their individual origins?
I have got about 500 planes in my scene that were generated by an addon. But the addon generates them in a horizontal orientation, whereas I need them in a vertical orientation. One object, or two, I ...
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How to get back parent with empty
I have a big empty parented to all my model, There are several small empty for window door etc. I forgot to select the small empty and parent to big empty. What i did is i selected my complete model ...
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Dope sheet doesn't color channels anymore
When having bone groups with colors would make these colors to show up on the Dope Sheet keyframe channels like this
This is what it's meant to look like, But now everything is a single color
I took ...
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Put Node Groups into Premade Categories
So I was making node groups the other day, and had a thought... "Hey, could I put these into one of blender's premade categories?" I searched far and wide, climbed mountains, ventured ...
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Group visibility doesnt toggle inside visibility?
how come turnign off visibility on a group doesnt turn off visbility for the things inside it?
This happens often and is really annoying
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Pros and cons of seperating meshes into objects and ways to switch between [closed]
I got confused recently where I couldn't select a mesh in edit mode unless the object was selected.
I'm working on a map with a lot of separate meshes, so it's a chore to scroll down to the ...
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Do semi-complex material node groups considerably slow down Blender?
I've put together several node groups for the purposes of color correction, falloff, and other various utilities. I'm wondering though what kind of impact this will have on my scenes if my materials ...
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How do I designate objects as parts of different material groups and different vertex groups? [duplicate]
Thank you for taking the time to look at my question. I have a robot figure that is split up into a collection of various objects. Some of these objects will make up separate vertex groups that will ...
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How to mirror actions from a object to another in real time?
im having some trouble with trying to mirror my actions into another object. So basically imagine Cube 1 and Cube 2 side by side, what i want to do is to when i change any form our scale of the Cube 1 ...
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How to take an assest I made and group it together to Appended in another project?
all I am very new to blender. I have been googling but cannot seem to find anything. I made a dumpster for scenes to use in the future. I parented it to an empty, but I cannot figure out how to group ...
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Merge bezier curves without deformation?
So I've been working on the hair of a character, and I need to merge all the hair strips together. But whenever I do that, everything is deformed after doing so. I have tried applying rotation and ...
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How to add a modifier to a collection(group? linked objects? IDK) which it has modifiers inside
I'm a beginner to blender and I'm trying to make a cnc model using some different objects which have mirror modifier inside the group(e.g. the bars).
And now I want to add an array modifier to let it ...
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CTRL+J Changes my imported svg file
I imported an SVG file and when I do ⌃ Ctrl + J it changes my images, it crops it. The image that says "Just Play" is before ⌃ Ctrl + J and the cropped one is after.
Why is this happening? ...
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How to make node disappear
It seems to make the value node disappear while connecting it to group input. I've tried different combinations and have node wrangler on but I'm not sure how to get it. I'm also unclear as to exactly ...
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How to Stop Join From Creating Doubles of Objects?
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I am trying to import a Collada model with many individual pieces to Blender. I have thus far successfully imported the model, added color to the individual parts, and I am now trying to ...
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Object glitching/dissapearing in render [duplicate]
I have completed my animation but I realised when I render it that one of the propellers blades starts to glitch. On some frames it is in shot and some it is out of shot and this is really strange. ...
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Bending a group of objects?
How to bend (or add any other deforming modifiers to) a group of objects as at one solid object? Just for example this car animation (URL attached). It is good to keep wheels and lights, interior, and ...
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Move/rotate all objects contained in a collection around the space
I have modelled a car and I have arranged all differents objects parts in nested collections under a main one called "Model". Now I need to move all the car in the space I know that I can ...
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What is a python command to create a node group or shader node tree from the nodes in the currently active material?
Essentially what I am trying to do is create a script that can make nodes into groups or shader node trees (unsure exactly what the difference is) based on which nodes are told to be selected at the ...
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Move collection including invisible objects
How can I move/transform a whole collection of objects, including invisible objects? I have invisible objects to facilitate boolean modifiers.
The popular advice to move a collection is to select all ...
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Pivoting multiple objects around Cursor doesn't change individual object orientation (2.8+)
Following the Blender Guru Wrecking Ball tutorial and ran into a hitch at 4:47 with Cursor Pivoting.
I've successfully snapped my Cursor to the selected object, selected Transformation Orientation: ...
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grouping objects with modifiers so it behaves like one object
Grouping objects with modifiers so it behaves like one object.
Is it possible to make a such grouping?
I made shoes for a character that I want to animate.
The shoes are composed of several elements (...
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Add a created group in a node tree exploiting python [duplicate]
I have created a node tree in a different blend file, and I just need to add it as a group exploiting a script. In the following figure there is the "manual" procedure.
I have tried to add ...
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Why doesn't Blender have groups that allow you to transform grouped objects all at once?
I'm a long-time 3DS Max user recently converted to Blender (refugee from the monopoly and now financial oppression practiced by Autodesk). So far, I love many of the features in Blender more than Max ...
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What is this hierarchy of an empty and a collection, and how do I get to the mesh inside?
I got some plants from here and they are gorgeous. However, I ended up moving some files and the textures broke, so I diligently went back and fixed them one by one. The last bit was doing the stems ...
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How to apply modifier to collections
Good morning, everyone,
I'm currently on a project to make a small LEGO animation on Blender. I wanted to make a city with LEGO buildings as below.
The problem is that these buildings are built ...
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Rotate a group of 6 objects to align 3 points (each on a different object) on a plane
I have 6 rectangular blocks that I want to rotate as a group so the bottom 3 vertices (each are on a different block) end up on the same plane; in this case the global X-Y plane. How can I do this?
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How to force a node group input field to display a slider?
I have created a couple of node groups with some "group-inputs-sliders" (The one called "Roughness" in the bottom picture). I would like it to have the blue-bar slider like the blender native ones. ...
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Animation node - sorting a collection of objects from their size
Could you please help.
I've got a collection of objects, I want each of them to appear ( every 10 frame animation) in the viewer. Starting from the smallest to the biggest.
Dear Leander
Thank you, ...
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