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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How can I prevent the occasional Zoom In / Panning from breaking?
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but occasionally (usually in Object Mode) while I'm Zooming In or ...
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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 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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Circle Select permanently selected
I am a Blender newbie and just can't get ahead now. Unfortunately I somehow selected the Circle Select and now I can't get it to go away. I have already tried any buttons but I can not get it back Box ...
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Why my feet bones don't want to be moved in object mode?
In pose mode the feet can be moved normally.
But in object mode, the foot bones stuck.
There's a constraint - child of, in the foot bone. All xyz location and scale tranforms is disabled. Only the ...
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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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object and cursor moving in opposite directions
I am an absolute beginner with Blender. I have a weird problem for which I can't find a solution: when I grab, the object moves in the opposite direction with respect to the cursor. If I press the ...
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Scaling Bezier Curves in Edit Mode vs Object Mode
If we create a bezier cruve ([shift]+[a], "Curve", "Bezier") we get a slightly curved curve with two nodes along the x-axis.
If we enter edit mode, select ...
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Object wont rotate on local axis
I am trying to rotate the cylinder on the bottom of this thing 90 degrees, but it wont rotate correctly.
This is what happens when I try to rotate it 90 degrees in either the X or Y axis
I want the ...
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Switching from object mode to edit mode screws up my curtain
I'm trying to create a curtain by following this video.
After I create a grid, rotate it, pin the top vertices to the grid, create the hook from these vertices, add cloth to the grid and then finally ...
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Proportional editing change size problem
can anybody tell me please how can I change "proportional change size mode" on blender 3.5 to older one. I mean until I apply a proportional size that suits me(L-mouse button) it won't save. ...
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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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Why does part of my object not scale properly between edit and object mode?
I have created a bird and am extruding the wings from the side of the body. I have a mirror modifier set up so I can just work on one side. But the extruded shape does not stay the same when I switch ...
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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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Locked Camera View
I have locked myself into camera view/am restricted to viewing my sculpture from the camera viewport only, and am unable to exit this mode despite following the advice I have found on this subject on ...
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Object Mode Vertex Snapping is not working as intended
Instead of snapping the two triangles together it offsets it like this, how do I fix this? I am hovering to the closest vertex which is the bottom one and it keeps off setting the position rather than ...
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"Shortcut rotate" and "rotate option" in toolbar rotate object in diffferent directions
System Versions:
Blender Version: 2.93.9 LTS
System: macOS Monterey, Version 12.4
If I rotate using shortcut R with the following parameters:
Angle: 10 degree
Axis: Y
Orientation: Global
Blender ...
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How do I make my sculpture pop up when I change it to object mode?
I've been recently using Blender and I'm new to the program. I've been following a tutorial on sculpting. I create and object and I'm try to change to object mode. However, when I do It reverts my ...
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join multiple objects together depending on the distance
Is there a way to select many objects and join only those that intersect or touch each other.
For example, I have a scene with houses and chimneys (seperated objects) and I want to batch join each ...
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Unable to add bone in Object Mode
I'm trying to add bones to my two sphere objects, but even though I'm in object mode I can't add any bones. When I mouse over Armatures, I do not get any options to add bones at all. Can someone ...
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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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How can I show the X and Y axes over this plane?
Image 1: Plane somehow hiding the axes
I'm a newbie and I'm following the famous donut tutorials by Andrew Price aka Blender Guru. At part 6, Level 1 he instructs us to create a plane, but in his ...
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Filter objects by name without their parents
When I type object names in the "search bar" in Outliner, it shows not only the matched objects but their whole hierarchy:
I don't want to know what's their parents and parents' parents. I ...
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Glitchy lines coming from the pencil strokes
There are these weird glitchy lines coming from the end of the stroke while I'm drawing. They also connect the two last strokes I put down between each other. Because of that, when i switch do Object ...
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can't rotate, scale, grab only cube in object mode
as I write in the title, I can't rotate, grabe and scale the cube in object mode in blender 2.9. When I try to grab the cube, the origin (the little sphere) moves but not the cube; I try to unselect &...
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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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Adjust local space scale to fit object size
I have an I-carrier that I want to have in a certain dimension. I thought about scaling the thing in object mode and then applying the scale. However when I do that, the size of the object in the x-...
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Default position of new stroke changed
First image is where the default stroke appears in grease pencil
Second image is where the stroke appears now.
I really need help to reset this position. All new objects are appearing in the new ...
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Additional vertice on Object Mode
I just started with Blender and found some wired problem - on Object Mode I see a vertice, that i cant notice in Edit Mode. I have no idea why it happend and how to fix it.
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Intersection split
What is the best variant to join these two pieces together. In rhino is possible to make clean Boolean union. In blender this is not clean way. Is it chance to split in the intersection and then join? ...
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How do I make this connection look smooth?
I can't make these connect smoothly even though I have done the same thing multiple times and it has looked smooth. The meshes are connected properly. I have tried moving vertices in the mesh, and ...
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Why could this graphical glitch happen in Blender?
I am using Blender for about 3 hours today, and I used it while live streaming.
Note that my CPU usage is mostly at 100% because I have a low-end PC.
And after that time I have encountered this:
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Why does my appended object start to distort when I move it?
I'm appending a tree into another scene. After I try moving it to set up my scene, the branches start to distort. What am I doing wrong?
http://g.recordit.co/rJuzSYSsHw.gif
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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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Undo/Redo not working in object mode and Weight Paint mode on MacOS
I am facing an issue in Blender version 3.6.5, where if I make any changes in Object mode or Weight Paint mode, it cannot undo or redo to the changes I made, and on many occasions, it crashes when I ...
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Viewport shading and gizmos dissapeared after 4.0
In the layout tab, object mode and edit doesn't show the viewport shading, gizmo and overlays.
Sculpt mode works just fine.
I don't know what or why happened.
It started after i updated to 4.0, ...
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Why does my object tilt when I go from edit mode to object mode?
I'm completely new to Blender and was trying to follow some Youtube tutorial. I was working with an object in Edit mode and when I go back to Object mode it rotated a bit. What might have caused this ...
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set AssetBrowser region height on keypress
I cant seem to find a way to set an open region height in Blender using Python. I'm trying to set the height of the asset browser on keypress.
Is this possible through the Blender API?
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Can only select the entire vehicle model when in object mode
I am fairly new to blender. For some reason while in object mode I can not select individual pieces (bumper, hood, ect) of the vehicle model. It will only let me select the entire model or the wheel....
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Crash randomly when switching to Wireframe mode
I would like to know why do I randomly get a crash when I switch the display mode to wireframe on any file?
I tried to disable some of the add-ons but it still persists
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The items of Object mode tool bar
Why is the number of items in the toolbar in the Object Mode different? I followed a beginner tutorial of Blender, and I found that the number of toolbar of mine is 9 while the blogger's is 11, and I ...
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Cannot join objects without rotating view first
Here's a weird one: When I press Ctrl+J to join two objects (in Object Mode), nothing happens. However, if I then rotate the view a bit and press Ctrl+J again, Blender joins the objects for me. This ...
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Orthographic View Alignment on the Y-Axis
If I create a cube, move it away in the x direction, and zoom all the way in toward it (i.e. from either left or right), its center is still aligned with the origin:
Same with the z direction. But if ...
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In Blender 3.3.0 the origin of the object moves outside the object when I have the cloth modifier on, I can't move, how do I fix it?
Cushion
deflated cushion when I try to move it with G for Grab
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I can only select one object at a time where as before i could select muliple
I have 5 different objects in my collection currently. Before this setting triggered. I could select any part or any object (multiple or one at a time) then edit the number of selections I made using ...
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2D animation - how to revert changes?
Total first-timer here. I’m trying to make an animation using multiple layers within one stroke object. Suddenly all of the lines from each layer are orange, the same thickness and visibility ...
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Let the edges appear in object mode as they do on the edit world (manga style)
I've been using blender for a while now and I've always wanted to know how to make the edges of the edit mode appear in ibject mode. It can give a bit of a manga style. I've seen that you can add the ...
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Mirrored object ‚overcuts‘ in object mode only
I accidentally did something that makes my mirrored model look like it’s overlapping with its mirror, but only in object mode. When I go into edit mode, the model looks normal and doesn’t over lap. It’...
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Sculpting problem in edit mode
I can't see my sculpt in edit mode but it gets displayed in object mode and sculpt mode.
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Why are there white circles after removing animations?
Recently, I was trying to animate some of my objects. After removing the animations, white circles appeared close to the previously animated objects. What are they and how do I remove them?
