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Applying opencv distortion parameters to camera or setting custom projection matrix for render

I need to set a camera and render images with that camera. I have rotation and position data as extrinsic parameters and focal length, shift values and radial and tangential distortion coefficients as ...
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Normal Map Problem (Inverting Color?)

I made this model in Blender and Textured it in Substance Painter. While in Substance I didnt see any problems, but when exporting it to Blender and applying the maps i got weird artifacts and color ...
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Image sequence texture: no preview?

I have a material assigned to a few test objects with an image sequence as a texture. If I view the scene in render preview, and scrub the timeline, (or render a sequence,) the texture behaves as ...
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How to batch import images as brush textures?

I have a folder with some b&w images that I want to use as brushes textures while sculpting. Is there a way to automatically load these images as brush textures, or do I have to do it one by one?
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How to add a range of separate images to VSE without merging them in one video strip?

I press Shift+A, choose image, then I see the menu for browsing images. So if I select several pictures and add them, Blender will join them in one video-stripe, but I want to avoid that. I want to ...
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Render crops image from compositor [duplicate]

I made a 3D tracking, and noticed that after rendering the image is cropped. I got the camera through the 3D tracking. Why is this happening and can we fix it without making new 3D tracking? Here is ...
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How to move or slide an image in VSE

I would like to know if there is a way to make an image move or slide to another point using the video editor.
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time offset in blender compositor?

I want to subtract the current frame from a previous frame, I have a image sequence and I want blender to subtract the current frame from the frame with an offset of -4. If I am on frame 5 so blender ...
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Change background color in Image Editor for transparent image

I'm rendering an image with a transparent background, which will eventually be included in a figure with a white background. In the Image Editor, blender displays the transparent regions as a grey/...
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How can I align a texture and material based on the same image?

I am trying to model an "inflationary multiverse", inspired by this picture from Quanta Magazine: To do that, I am trying to create a bunch of bubble universes expanding out as part of the ...
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align reference image with orthographic camera

I've got my scene set up as shown below. The camera is set to orthographic and both camera and reference are rotated to [60, 0, 45] degrees. It seems not to line up with the 3D world, however. (note ...
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Glitchy-looking transparent alpha channel PNG when imported as "Image as Plane" in Cycles [duplicate]

I'm following this tutorial, and when I import the reference image I get a glitchy plane: (the one on the right is the Image as Plane, while the one on the left is an Empty with an image) I have ...
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VSE: How to Speed up the Preview of Image Strips?

The Issue Is there any way to speed up the preview of image strips in the video sequence editor? Unfortunately, the preview in the VSE is very choppy and indicates that it runs at only a few frames ...
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How can I resize a displacement map in cycles?

So I followed a texturing tutorial by Blender Guru that shows you how to add bump-, specular- and displacement maps with nodes in cycles to make your texture look more realistic. I used my own texture ...
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Extract Texture from a 3D blender model

As part of a project, I want to convert a 3D Model into a 2D image, my goal is to extract the texture from the model using blender. I know UV unwrapping goes by the following steps: Import object. ...
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Why is the Mask size mismatched in the Compositor?

I masked an image in the UV/Image editor masking section. I then used that mask in the compositor for background replacement. However, the mask size seems to be different. Why is that? Here's a ...
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Removing alpha from PNG image with set alpha node gives pixelated result

I am making a node group, and I want to remove the alpha from an image. I added a set alpha node and set the factor to 1, but this gives me a crazy result as you see in the screenshot. I 'm using a ...
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How to convert image textures to different formats?

I used Blender to export a 3D model in X3D format. However, textures are automatically exported in TGA format. In order to print multicolor models in Shapeways (https://www.shapeways.com), the ...
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Render from pre-calculated data set?

I made a physics simulator and have a pre-calculated data set of point positions for each time step. Can I programmatically render each frame individually with the data, output to an image with ...
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How to scale an image with python

I'm writing an addon and I want to save two sizes of every rendered image. One is the original size which blender saves anyway. The other one is a scaled down version of that image. How do I scale an ...
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How to get if the image texture node material lost image path with python?

I was wondering if there was a way to get the simple information. For example on the broadcast node in this case it has lost the image link, how can I get this information in python? This is the ...
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Batch Generate Previews Not Working

Even for the default cube, when I go to File -> Data Previews -> Batch Generate Previews, it seems that it's doing something. Then I save the file but when I try to append the cube to another project ...
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Loading an image to a texture from a python script file

I made a plugin to use on blender, installing the plugin will display a panel, and I wanted to display an image on that panel, so I create a texture in the script file with type 'IMAGE': ...
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Image textures on planes are distorted

I added a texture to a plane. When rendered, the texture on the plane is all distorted. I'd like for the texture to fit nicely on the plane. In case I haven't submitted enough information (i.e. ...
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How to map an image on a texture?

I'm very new to Blender and I'm just learning textures. When I take an image like this and place it on a plane: and render it I get a visible line in the final image like this: I'm so new I'm not ...
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Uniform Texture Page Repeat

I am looking for a simple way to repeat part of a texture page uniformly over a large model. On the right you can see my texture page which I am using for multitexturing. On the left you can see the ...
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Converting a mesh to voxels

Is it possible to convert a mesh into a voxel image? This operation would make white voxels inside the mesh, and black voxels outside the mesh, and would either: write a standard 3D image file ...
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UV map not applying to certain faces

As you can see, certain faces are not being textured, despite the map covering them. On the UV view there are vertexes which are unselected, but selecting them manually makes no difference - they are ...
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What does the "View as render" option in the background image settings do?

What does the View as render option in the 3D view background image settings do? The Blender wiki does not mention it, and I have not been able to find anything about it.
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While in texture paint, make uv map edges visible (Cycles)

i'd like to see the uv map while texture-painting. But the uv map in the uv editor shows only if the 3d view is in edit mode. I've seen in a tutorial that the map can also be visible in texture paint ...
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Copy RENDER OUTPUT (image result) to Windows clipboard?

How possible would it be to include a function in the Compositor, UV Editor and Image Editor that can "COPY TO CLIPBOARD" whatever image they have active? The image editor "Copy to ...
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Is there any way to replicate/recreate Levels effect in Blender Shading Nodes?

I'm trying to make a normal map generator in Blender and I need to add Levels-like node. I'm using this tutorial about generating normal map from four pictures (https://dreamlight.com/how-to-create-...
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Black Borders on Reference Images

I'm getting black borders on all the reference images I add and it's making things difficult to work with. Anyone know how I can get rid of them?
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Background image not visible: What am I doing wrong?

I'm trying add a background image to my scene in my Python script. It runs without errors, but I can't see the background image. Can someone please look at my code below and tell me what I'm doing ...
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Why is blender using so few resources

Right now I am doing the final render on my light-saber and previously when I would render objects with around 1000-3000 samples depending on the complexity it would take maybe an hour but now blender ...
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Error attempting to import image as plane in blender internal

I selected File > Import > Images as Planes, and chose a 700 kB png from the file system screen that pops up (in Blender 2.76). The first time nothing happens, on later tries it gives me the errors ...
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Why blender is not saving used Images

I was wondering if someone could explain me why blender is not saving images when I save the project? I know that this is treated as external data and it's not really big deal to save it manually but ...
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Rotating a single image texture for multiple instances

I have a node setup for a single image texture (actually its a set of images) tiled floor. For variance I grouped the spec, normal, occ images then rotated them randomly using the Object Info. The end ...
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Drawing in Blender

I'm a completely new blender user (just finished the beginer tutorials) and basically it's my first attempt in the world of CG creation and animation. One of my first goals is to create some 2D ...
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Using 32bit tiff for displacement

I am trying to import a heightmap from the UK's GIS data. The downloaded height map is in a 32bit .tiff file. When trying to use this Tiff file for a displacement modifier I'm getting some really odd ...
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'image as plane' is always low quality than the original image

How can I render 'image as plane' with the same quality as original image? The quality of image is always blurred and has a faint color. This is how I did it. (*Increased the resolution of the ...
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Volume rendering an image stack in Blender Game Engine

I'm trying to create an interactive scientific visualization tool using the Blender Game Engine (BGE). One of the things I want to include is a volumetric rendering of an image stack. An image stack ...
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How to create realistic blinking/shining stars in BGE?

How to create realistic blinking/shining stars in BGE? I recently heard that the blender team actually removed the stars option but not sure what or where I can get or see this action. My intent is to ...
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Can I sculpt images as planes?

I'm new to Blender, and I'm trying to figure out how can I distort images or videos 3-dimensionally. I'm importing an image or video as 'images as planes', going to sculpting mode and trying to sculpt ...
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Can Krita and Blender be linked?

I have tried to look for myself but have not found the information I'm looking for. I've seen that one can use the digital painting software Krita in connection with Blender. But I do not remember ...
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Which kinds of post-processing effects and algorithms could be used to try to imitate images like this?

I am not sure if that is the right place to ask that, I just had no better idea. The thing is, I have a model on blender of a soccer player. And I want to create renders that imitate these images as ...
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How can I convert empty images so that they would show in the render?

I've made a noob mistake and set up a whole scene with empty image objects. Is it possible to convert them so they would show in the render? I know I can delete everything and start importing ...
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How to read a pixel from an image texture with Python

My Python script needs to read RGBA values from a specific pixel of a texture bitmap. How can I do this in Blender?
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Why is the default image format for saving renders is in PNG?

I have been using Blender for a while now and I notice something that seem unusual at least to me. An obvious format is JPG because it's very common despite its flaws. EXR is pretty much the opposite ...
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Image blurred background to remove black bars

I am using the Add Images as Planes add-on and I would like to achieve the effect here i.e remove the black bars at render and replace it with the image blurred in the background. Does anyone have ...
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