Questions tagged [object-mode]
Use this tags for questions about operations performed on objects when they are in object-mode, rather than any of the other modes, such as edit, sculpt and weight painting.
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Why can I no longer "direct" select an object in OBJECT MODE? I can no longer select the object I am trying to select with my cursor. Blender 4.0.2
I am new here.
Recently (a few days ago), if I want to select an object, the object I am trying to select is NOT selected. However, the largest object in line with the cursor is selected. NOTE: All ...
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Is it possible to display vertex normals in object mode?
I want to preview how vertex normals will look like after WeightedNormal modifier without actually applying it. Is there any way to do that?
I am aware about Y.A.V.N.E. addon but it hasn't been ...
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Render not showing active changes in movement of object I've tried almost everything
Basically I finished everything in the scene but the final posing and rigs won't show up in the render. The specific problem is the hand, it keeps going behind the phone after I move it and adjust is ...
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Scale group of objects to size
I'd like to scale up a few text objects to a certain total X dimension, keeping aspect.
Selecting all allows scaling as group, but this only affects scale factor and as such does not allow an exact ...
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Realtime auto keying framing on the timeline don't work as expected on blender 2.81
Hello blender masters.
I'm trying to track and save on the timeline the facial movements of a character using OPEN CV and two custom python scripts that I found here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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How to switch directly from Sculpt mode to Object mode?
How do I make it so when I press Tab in sculpt mode I go to object mode?
I press Tab in sculpt mode and it goes to edit mode. No matter what I do Tab is a combo of edit mode and any other mode. To go ...
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An object won't move
Tested in Blender 4.0 to 4.2.
Object mode
Trying to move a door object and I can't. I can rotate and scale though.
Any other object would move normally in that model.
Checked:
transforms scale ...
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duplicating an object and keyframing without affecting the original object
So I duplicate an object and start animating the duplicate object. The original object then inherits the same keyframes from the duplicate object. When deleting the keyframes from the original object, ...
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Assigned material only shows up in Edit mode?
quick question. I've assigned a material to the rim of the windows in the picture in Edit mode, but in Object mode they are overwritten. Why is this happening and how could I prevent this?
Window rim ...
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Extruding a face causes glossy or seemingly smooth-shaded faces where there shouldn't be
I was practicing in Blender 4.1 by making some simple shapes and texturing them. An example is this slab shown in material preview and solid mode. I noticed when extruding one of its faces, the ...
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What is the short cut key for ''Object Menu'' under Object Mode
I can not find the short cut key for this menu, but I would like access to it.
I have checked the section under the properties key map but can not locate the options to assign a short cut key.
Is ...
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Duplicating object aligned with and on faces
I'm trying to duplicate the cube in the image on the center of the faces of the torus facing inwards. I've tried a few things with curve deforms and array modifiers but couldn't get anything to work. ...
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select an object in blender using python command
I'm having problem in working with various objects in blender. I'm writing a code to change the vertices of a object; but, it does not work when there are several objects at the scene, the problem is ...
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How to select objects by face count
As in the title, we need to select objects that have a given number of faces or greater / less than X number of faces. I got the solution delivered by ChatGPT and tested in Blender 4.0, so I'm posting ...
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Blender image textures are only visible when in texture paint, but disappear when in any other mode
I found some questions similar to my problem, but the answer hadn't clear for me as a new Blender user.
I made a cylinder to create chimney model and UV unwrapped it with an image in the UV editor. I ...
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When I press numbers on the keyboard, the collections are hidden
I think I clicked something and now when I click 1 or 2 in object mode, the collections in the outliner disappear. how do I fix it and what did I click? for example, I press 2 and my entire collection ...
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When looking from specific angles, I seem to be able to peek through clothes. (Or they seem slightly torn rather)
When I use the numbad buttons (1,3 or Ctrl 1,3), I am able to see very small openings on the clothing on some specific spots, these are only visible when looking from this specific angles.
It looks ...
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Can you undo all edit mode deformations so the mesh returns to its original shape?
The image shows what used to be a cube after i randomly moved its vertices in edit mode. I would like to know if there is a way to just reset edit mode deformations and set the cube to its original ...
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Can't see any object in Solid mode, material mode except the selection silhouette but can see in render mode
As I open Blender I can't see the default cube or any object in solid mode and material mode in object view but can see in edit-view as in the image, I can only see the selection silhouette. I made ...
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Undo going too many steps in Blender 3.4
I have been having a problem recently where my Ctrl + Z undo has been going too far. Often I will hit undo once and blender will delete roughly an hour of work. It deletes objects, materials, ...
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3D cursor not moving
I don't know quite what happened. I was modeling and I suppose accidentally clicked on something, and now the 3D cursor (The thing in the middle with the red ring around it) stays in the middle.
I've ...
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Why does my mesh get distorted when switching from edit to object mode?
Whenever I create adjustments to a mesh in edit mode (covering body with clothes for example), when I switch back into object mode the mesh distorts weirdly as shown below and shoots out in all ...
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Defects in Blender 4.1 [duplicate]
Display Issues in Blender 4.1.1
Hello everyone,
Can you please help me understand why these defects appear on my model? The model is intact and undamaged. This issue is not only with this model but ...
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toggle Object Mode <-> Pose Mode by script code
I want to toggle Object Mode to Pose Mode by script code, because I usually run blender in Object Mode but sometimes I need to add some keyframes while I run blender. that is why I want to toggle ...
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Object location different between Object and Edit mode
For some strange reason, the mesh between Object and Edit mode are in completely different places.
Here, the model is aligned with the armature
But here, the mesh is way off.
I've applied ...
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Rigid body physics only applied correctly in edit mode
I'm confronted with a weird problem in blender's rigid body physics, where the simulation is only applied correctly if the active objects are in edit mode. My test scene: one simple cube and two ...
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Why can't I move my camera while in camera mode?
I just started a new project and for some reason when I'm in camera mode, there's no square/rectangle to show what would be in the rendered view and I can't move the camera in camera mode. I can move ...
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Particles do not appear in object mode but do appear in vertex paint and weight paint modes. Also not possible to render
I create a model of a coffee tree using Mtree Mesh addon and I´m trying to add some particles attached to some areas of the branches (as fruits). I use weight paint to do that and works well in ...
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How to link object data whilst keeping the location and rotation of all objects
I have a pretty hefty frame structure that I need to optimise. This was created by arraying a single smaller section of the frame along a curve, then arraying the result 32 times around an empty. ...
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Is there anyway to do Rotations to Deltas but only on 2 axis?
I'm trying to have the X axis not change while, the other 2 are put at zero but I'm not sure if this is possible though? Any ideas?
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How do I auto hide other object while editing a selected object
i've been working with almost 30 iterations, and i want to be able to compare them in object mode, but hiding and unhiding some object are annoying because i also have other boolean happening. what i ...
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Unable to select object at the beginning, so have load factory setting all the time
I am unable to select object at the beginning, so I have load factory setting all the time.
Here I attached my loading screen.https://youtu.be/4ICLWBlc-JE
Also I can't select Scene Collection at this ...
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Object Disappeared in Sculpt Mode and Edit Mode
I did one sculpting for 3 hours, and then I don't know what I pressed, but it disappeared. It is shown in Object Mode, but not in Edit Mode or Sculpt Mode, and it's not hidden either. Could anyone ...
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Texture paint not staying in object mode
On blender 2.7, I created a model and i was texture painting using an image (that i previously used made using UV mapping). I've done this before and it worked but this time the texture I want is only ...
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Nothing Happens with fluid simulation
I was learning from CG Geek's animation tutorial from this video at 8:45. When I played the animation, nothing happened at all to my creation, no signs of high viscous water trickling down the sphere.
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Does it matter to deselect faces before going back to Object Mode?
When editing geometry, faces are automatically selected and can still be selected when going back to Object Mode. Does this have an effect on memory or performance? After completing geometry edits, if ...
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Some objects are only selectable in the outliner
I've been working on this model for a while, and suddenly, some object/assets i add are not selectable in the viewport. I can only select them in the outliner. The happened with a random selection of ...
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Blender 3.0.1: Can't Move Objects in Object Mode
I know this has been asked and "answered" elsewhere, but still...
I'm using Blender 3.0.1-2 in Arch Linux, and I'm unable to transform an object unless I'm in edit mode. The only exception ...
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Hide element in Object mode?
I'm trying to do snapping in Object Mode, but the model has a lot of vertices that are close to each other (very dense). I have trouble picking the correct vertex as a snap reference. I thought about ...
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How to delete a part of a mesh of a multires object?
So I have imported a mesh with multires already on the mesh and I have deleted a part of the mesh in edit mode but the mesh still appears unchanged in object mode.
This is the mesh in object mode.
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How do I make a smooth shaded mesh not look weird?
I'm someone who wants to try and make a game and modelling is one o the aspects I'm trying to learn. I'm new here in blender and I don't know a whole bunch yet. But I'm trying to cut a shape of a lego ...
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Undo (CRTL+Z) will always Switch me to edit mode!
I'm using Blender 4.0 and Blender 4.1.
If I'm moving something in object mode, or posing for an animation in pose mode; If I press undo (Ctrl + Z) The program will switch to Edit Mode and not revert ...
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How to Scale Translation of Multiple Objects (without affecting object scale)?
I have the following three objects, equal distant from each other (from world center) along the XY plane. I want to move them away from each other uniformly, as noted:
I want to essentially 'scale' ...
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Why does the edit mode no longer remember the shading mode?
About a year ago, I was able to have edit mode remember that it should be in wireframe mode. That is, I could do something in edit mode, then switch to object mode using the tab key (and the display ...
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Mesh dissappear in object mode using rigify
What I did before was rigging the tail using rigify, and then merging the rig with the body rig (the body rig is not a rigify rig).
The tail still mesh still appear some times after that, however when ...
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zoom issue in blender [duplicate]
I am new to Blender and have been doing tutorials through Blender Guru. I am working on the chair tutorial and have encountered a problem I've never had.
For some reason my mouse is not able to zoom ...
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Objects Viewable on wireframe, Rendered and Material Preview Not visible in solid mode though
Sorry I don't really know how to explain this I was rescaling some objects and I scaled it down 1000 times. Some context I am designing a product and I tried to do some mesh editing. The objects scale ...
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Can't see through objects with X-ray mode
I am having an issue with X-ray mode. When I am in Material preview viewport, I turn Xray on and objects don't display as see-through like default settings.
But if I switch my workspace to UV editing,...
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How to wrap one object around another?
I've been trying a couple of different ways to get an object that has depth to wrap around a boot as a sort of strap. I've tried shrink wrapping a plane then adding depth, tried to shrink wrap ...
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How to fix transforming an object and its gizmo together in Blender 4.0?
My issue is that I can't transform an object and its gizmo together. Does anyone know how to solve this issue (in Blender 4.0)?
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