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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Weird see-throught effect
I don't know how I did it but I pressed a button that made that meshes will get invisible if there is another one around or behind them. Anyone know which button I need to press or if it is anything ...
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Can't visibly select anything in Object or Edit modes. What have I done? [duplicate]
I haven't had this happen to me before. I can manipulate stuff in edit mode, but I cant see what. Neither can I see the select borders in object or any other mode. How can I fix this?
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Colour cannot be applied in material mode [duplicate]
Whenever I change the object from solid mode to material mode to apply colour I am facing issues:
The outline of the object I created vanishes completely. It shows an orange outline only.
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Solid Wireframe, F4 shortcut
I'm new to Blender - and to any 3D modelling software, really - so I started following tutorials on Youtube. In this particular case, the OP says to toggle the wireframe on the solid interface by ...
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Why is my object shaped differently in object mode than in edit mode?
Why is my object shaped differently in object mode than in edit mode?
Here's the model in object mode. (The undesired shape)
Here's the model in edit mode. (The desired shape)
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Can't select any object in edit mode 2.9
In edit mode I can only select the object I click in "object mode". When I click on others objects nothing happening. I always have to switch in object mode if I want to select another ...
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Sculpt not showing in Object mode
I Have been Working on a Photoscan and am trying to clean it up in Sculpt mode. When I Switch back to Object Mode all my changes are lost, everything I did in Sculpt mode are all gone.
For example ...
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Transform Affects Only Origin moves the object in reverse
I have an issue in blender that in object mode when I try to move an object only its origin moves although the Affects Only Origins is unchecked but when I check it the object moves in reverse
i.e. ...
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Wireframe view makes everything invisible when in Object mode [duplicate]
A couple weeks ago, seemingly out of nowhere, the wireframe viewport mode suddenly stopped displaying a wireframe when in object mode, and just made all the objects invisible apart from their outlines....
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All objects are invisble, even in solid mode [duplicate]
I can't see any objects in blender in solid mode it only shows the origin and a orange outline when I select the object. Rendering it in Eevee the object just gets rendered as alpha 0, in cycles you ...
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Objects in entire project can no longer be edited
When I RMB-click on any object in my project, it no longer gets a yellow profile that indicates that it is selected. However, in the Scene panel on the right, it does appear in yellow. I can also ...
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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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Hotkey to get back to Object Mode from Weight Paint
Sometimes, when I think I'm in Edit Mode but I'm actually in Object Mode, I'll hit Ctrl-Tab, and I get switched into Weight Paint mode. Is there a hotkey that will reliably take me back to Object Mode?...
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Selecting an object results in double outline and object doesn't move
When I select an object in object mode the object now gets outlined with 2 orange lines as opposed to just one. Moving the object moves the outline and not the geometry. To move the geometry it ...
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How to set up rig so it automatically switches between object mode and pose mode?
The title pretty much says it all, I remember on one .blend file I tried, it was set so that depending on what rig/object you clicked, it would switch accordingly. How would you do this?
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Object Mode shows odd Jitter on Mesh?
I am working off of the blender 2.83, I started a render and then stopped it to fix a mesh issue. When I returned to object mode I was greeted with this lovely disconcerting sight.
I have done the ...
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Independent Edit/Object mode in splitscreen
When I split screen in two and switch Edit/Object mode, they both change.
How to change just one?
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use one to modelling with numkey view with transparent wireframe
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When I sculpt it doesn't show in object mode
I am pretty new to blender. I am working on this character, however, everytime I switch from sculpt mode to object mode, it doesn't show the changes I made to the object in sculpt mode. I believe this ...
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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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How to change position in edit mode?
The change of position in the modes is still a bit of a mystery to me.
I just wanted to align two character models, but when I switch to edit mode, one of them changes its position. This time, I tried ...
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How to make the Arrow (EMPTY) appear?
I am making a project that would require me to use an empty which is an arrow however when I add one I can't see any arrow on the screen on ta yellow dot.
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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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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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"scale to bounds" missing in blender 2.9?
In blender 2.8 there was a search result when hitting space that allowed me to scale an object to perfectly fit within a specific size, called "scale to bounds" I believe. in 2.9 this ...
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Model moved from original position in object mode
My model appears in the viewport as it should in edit mode:
But down here in object mode:
And when I try to move it, the origin moves instead and this happens:
So it appears that something at the ...
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Array modifier - edit base object
I have a cylinder which I arrange in a grid, using 2 array modifiers: 1 to multiply along the x-axis and a second one to multiply along the y-axis.
I do this twice, and I can't get around why those ...
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What is this orb attached to my object?
I have an orb that just appeared attached to my object in Object Mode. It disappears in Edit Mode. If you zoom in the orb stays the same size and you can see it is attached at a specific vertex. When ...
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Blender problems with getting the center of an object. (Origin to center is not the center)
As you will see in this image, the center of the object is not exactly the center of the chair, since the pivot point is slightly up.
To verify this, I place the cursor in the center of the world and ...
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Why is my object rotating oddly? [closed]
https://youtu.be/ISEo-8k-6gg
I'm trying to animate a treasure chest, so I moved the origin to an edge, and now I cant rotate it properly. I know you can do this, but I don't know how I might've messed ...
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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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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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When I added a plane, the grids are gone
Whenever I add a plane, the grids is all gone on the top of the plane. But if it's another objects, there is one. I'm a Blender beginner and whenever I watch videos adding plane there's grid while ...
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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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Converting Archimesh to standard Blender objects
I initially used Archimesh to create a house plan, including windows. I have since decided that these are difficult to manipulate and have gone back to using native Blender tools. However, some of the ...
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Are there faster ways to switch pose modes? Am I missing something?
Here's the problem I'm having with weight painting;
Typical operation:
Object mode
Select rig
Select edit
Select multiple bones
Object mode
Select mesh
Select weight paint mode
Use a function, like ...
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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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Restore Object Creation Dialog [duplicate]
When adding a new object in object-mode a dialog with settings pops up. I know it is possible to bring that dialog back, but can't remember how?
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Ctrl+M (interactive mirror) is not taking the object's rotation into account
I am having a trouble mirroring a duplicated object in the Object Mode. The problem is: Ctrl+M only mirrors the object's location but not its rotation.
First I created a cube and used Shift+D to ...
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Can no longer select objects by clicking them
So, it seems like I have accidentally changed a selection-setting in a project of mine. I can no longer select objects by simply clicking on them, or drawing a box around them by way of box select. ...
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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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Transparent material acting wrong when in object mode
It's hard to explain, would be the best to show you
In the first image i'm in the object mode when everything is deselected, as you can see i can only see a back fan and some random shape, while what ...
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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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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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Is there a hot key for switching between 3D Object and Sculpt modes?
In the past, I've found the Tab key useful for switching between edit and object modes. But now that I'm getting into sculpting, I'm finding that I need to frequently switch between sculpt and object ...
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There's a problem with meshes in my Blender
I'm relatively new to Blender, but have become pretty good at modeling in the past month. But each time I edit a mesh, a problem occurs.
Let's say, if I wanted to remove vertices in Edit Mode, It'd ...
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Moving Cube in Object Mode leaves Outline of the Cube on Screen
When I want to move my cube in object mode, I see another cube. This seems to be the same cube but in edit mode.
Here are two screenshots, when I tried to move the first cube in object mode.
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Copy and Paste creates random null objects from existing geometry
i have a really annoying and strange copy & paste bug.
Sometimes when i want to copy & paste an object, blender creates random null objects from my existing geometry, sometimes everything is ...
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i cant edit collection, no object in collection
i bring some Blend.file for kit bashing.
however some of collection doesn't have any mesh or material,
so i cant edit.
what should i do?
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I want to unite every piece of this into a connected unified mesh without anything to clean up afterwards
tried bool-union clumps with ctrl J,each one and nothing seems to give me that simple 1 mesh. is there a way to convert this without booling each of the scales?, the bumps are going deep into the ...
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'Context is incorrect' error when using 'bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='OBJECT')' if I'm already in object mode
I'm trying to do things that only work in object mode. This gives me three choices:
I can hope I'm in object mode, and my script will raise an error if I'm not.
I can hope I'm in pose mode (or some ...
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