Questions tagged [objects]
Questions related to any kind of object. (mesh, text, curve, etc.)
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How to remove this protruding mass inside a self-intersecting object?
Inside view of the object with the protruding edge that I want to remove.
Outside view of the object. The tubular portion intersects the body and results in the protruding mass that I want to remove.
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Apply Follow Path animation to an object?
I have an object with it's own skeleton that is parented to an Axis that follows a curved path using the Follow Path constraint. I want to apply this animation to the object so it can be independent ...
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How can I make a baseline animation in Blender?
I have these eleven objects:
I want to add a baseline animation on the entrance of each object, the final result should be similar to this:
It would be great to add the animation once and then apply ...
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How do I reconcile this Duplicate Object? [duplicate]
I don't know how I got here...
Somewhere along the way in my project I have ended up with a duplicate of my main hero object, and I can't figure out how to delete the duplicate without deleting the ...
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Deform cylinder face into triangle
I have a disc with a triangular hole in it.
I want the things that fall into the triangle hole to go into a smaller cylinder that goes below, like a funnel.
Is there a way I can deform the small ...
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Select all meshes with similar dimensions
I have a large number of meshes similar in overall shape, but with slightly different dimensions, and completely different orientations and locations. For this example, do the following (or enough of ...
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Make the inside of a complex object "thicker"?
Note: Mostly a blender beginner.
I printed out a scale 3D object at a 1:150 scale, and the walls of the object became so thin they were brittle. Most of the object was OK, just the "bucket" ...
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Aligning the faces of two models
I have two models, for simplicity let's say an Octahedron and an Icosahedron, and I'd like to move the Octahedron so that a particular one of its faces aligns with a particular face of the Icosahedron,...
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Distribute circles on sides of a curve
Part of what I want to do for a project is to distribute circles on the sides of a curve similar to the photo below. It's a proprietary tool in Maya.
How can I do that in Blender?
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Assign different materials to different object copies
I'm trying to create two different copies of an object with different colors. The code below will create them but they always end up with the same color (1,1,0,1) (yellow).
How can I get ...
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Straighten a curved cylinder?
I have a model I made some time ago that mainly consists of what is essentially a detailed cylinder shape. When I initially made it, I modeled it with a baked in curve for a natural shape, but my plan ...
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Rotating several planes on their x axis by the same angle
I created 5 squares from planes.
I placed four of them around the fifth, forming a cross.
The question is: how can I rotate the four squares along their respective axes at the same time so that they ...
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Transparent object still shows detail inside
I'm trying to make a semi-transparent milk box that shows the pink liquid inside but not the actual detail of the box itself. I'm currently using a simple transparent and pricipled bdsf shader mixed ...
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How to edit a custom bone display mesh whose object has been deleted
I did the following:
Add a Circle named "BoneIcon"
Assign Circle as the "Custom Object" of several bones
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When pairing armature to object the obect "jumps" away
I made an armature/bones in rigify and tried to pair it to the object and the object jumps away when pairing and is not in the object. What do i wrong? I guess it has to do with the black line at the ...
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Problems With Blender Mirrored, Extruded Plane cutting into a Cylinder
I'm currently having issues with a design I'm working on, and I can't figure it out. I've always had issues with Boolean modifiers, but I've always found ways to get around them.
I'm making a lid for ...
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Error when retargeting Animation to Human mesh
I'm using Rokoko plugin. Does anyone have a solution to this error?
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Image is darker in render than in viewport
I used sunlight for the image. Still, the rendering is blacker, but not in the viewport. Some objects are black and some are normal. Attached are both views. Please help me to figure out the problem.
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How do I make the eyes symmetrical?
My model has two shaded separate object eyeballs inside the head. The one on the right is ok but how do I get the left one to match the opposite on the x axis?
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Making colours of a colour ramp noisy
I have a nice gradient texture going on for a project I am working on. The nodes in order with their outputs are as follows:
Texture Coordinate: Generated
Mapping: Vector
Gradient Texture(Linear): ...
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I want to make a duplicate object into each independent object [duplicate]
I have a circle of replicated objects, but I want to have each independent object
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How to bend a cylinder into a semi circle
I am wondering what is the best and EASIEST method to create a mesh for part of a hand rail which has a semi circular bend in it. The hand rail is round so I will use a cylinder?
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Numpad not working?
What up Blender users,
So I recently updated Blender to 3.40...and now my numpads 1-0 are not working. However numpad 1-3 works in edit mode.
I've tried resetting in the preference and I've also tried ...
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How to batch export multiple meshes into separate .ply files?
I have looked into batch exporting scripts and they seem to come in every format except ply. I'm having trouble understanding how to edit the template batch export script blender provides to export ...
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Object Invisible in render - Blender 3.3.1
I have been making a cupcake as you can see below:
But when I went to render it:
You can see that a part is missing in the middle.
So far I have done these to try and fix the problem:
F3 -> Clear ...
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Automatically apply Matrices4x4 transform on Objects
I'm working on a reverse-engineering tool, it extracts maps from a game, and the game actually stores the positions of objects instances using Matrices4x4 transformation.
I would like to know how I ...
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Is spline cage modeling technique in blender possible?
I saw this technique for modeling cars in Cinema 4D and I wonder if it is possible to achieve in blender. I tried to snap meshes to curves in blender but it doesn't seem to work
here is the video ...
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How to give an object the same shape of another that has a different number of vertices?
Basically, I have 2 premade human models, one of them is the original model, and the other one is an edited version that I sculpted some details on. For some reason, the edited version had a different ...
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Where can I find "Use Nodes" checkbox for Light objects in Shader Editor?
I'm using Blender 3.3 and I can't find the Use Nodes checkbox for Light objects in Cycles. Where do I find this checkbox in Cycles?
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(FIXED, thankyou) When Loop Cutting and altering the form of model, there is a another model above it. How to fix please?
Here are the basics:
Mode: Edit Mode, Modeling
Modifier: Mirroring, Axis X, Clipping, Merge 0.001 m
Methods: Loop Cut via Ctrl + R, Loop Cut via the tool, Knife shortcut/tool
When: resizing S, or ...
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Mountain object resizes and moves in animation
I have created a mountainous snow scene for an animation I'm doing but I must have had auto-key on when I resized some of the landscape because when I run the animation you can see the mountain moving ...
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Error activating the Molecular addon in Blender 3.0
I just started doing the particle exercises and for that, I need to use the Molecular addon. I use Blender 3.0. I downloaded the addon and installed it. The problem appears when I want it to activate ...
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How to resize an object to fit inside the hole just made with boolean difference
How can I resize my Empire logo to fit inside the hole just made with Boolean (Difference)on the box?
I have made a few attempts with the measuring tool and shrinking it down, but it seems to not ...
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Iterate through a scene and return the location value of all objects and append to a created JSON file as a Set or Dict
I am trying to iterate through a scene and return the world space location data for each object in the scene. I want to zip this data into a dictionary with name, x, y, and Z being the keys and the ...
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Select and join specific objects into one in python
I'm making a plugin to extract meshes from a game.
Actually, it extracts well the vertices and indicies/faces of each mesh.
Blender version: 3.2.0
Addon target: <...
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Why do objects sometimes have outlines in Render Preview?
Sometimes in 3rd-party Blender files, objects will have black outlines in Cycles Render Preview. I want the outlines to go away, but I can't figure out how. What's causing them? Thanks. Blender 3.3.1, ...
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How to make christmas lights? A tapered coil of balls or a wrapped cone?
Three years ago, I first tried to create a string of Xmas lights using a tapered coil. It "worked", but the results were ugly (and incredibly difficult to texture.) The texture was applied ...
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Texture getting stretched on sides of the shape
I followed the following steps to create the shape and apply the texture
Imported SVG
Converted to Mesh and cleaned shape
Extruded on the z-axis
Applied PBR from poly haven also tried to apply ...
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I'm not sure how I would get these 2 objects to mesh cleanly so I can sculpt over them without the edges at both ends
I've tried using new face from edges, but my edge counts don't add up between the objects, so they end up jagged.
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My model used to work so fine, but now only its bones move, not the mesh itself with it!
Here's a image to show u what actually my problem is:
Didn't change any settings, except the textures.
I got the same model in another blend file that works so pretty fine but this one not! i really ...
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Why can’t I select an object to change material?
I have appended a car into my scene, and when I go into the outliner, my object is a collection (pic 1), and when I select it, all of my options to edit the material and such disappear (pic 2). Why is ...
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Shrinkwrap not projecting onto mesh?
I'm basically trying to shrinkwrap this eye onto this face:
Unfortunately, after choosing project, and the axis accordingly, the eye failed to project onto the model. It's as if I never shrinkwrapped ...
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Alt H Brings Object Into View - Weight Paint Makes It Disappear
I've Made A Thread On Reddit Too....
Video In Thread....
It Seems Like I Used To Need A Script To Fix This Issue....
Link To File:
Is My Object Merely Off Screen....??
Alt H Bringing It Into View....
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Getting the direct objects contained in a collection
I'm using collection.objects to ask for the objects in a collection, and it gives me the whole object hierarchy. How do I get just the root of the hierarchy? So for ...
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Copy/Paste objects between files *without* parent?
A while ago, Blender changed the behavior of copy-paste between files, and I want to know if I can get the old behavior back. Basically, when I use the copy/paste function to copy an object from one ...
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Changing one particle in the particle system affects all
I made a large structure with small spheres using the particle system function. Changing the source object changes everything, which is expected. But Now I want to just change one of the spheres to be ...
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How to export only visible vertices?
I'm completely new to Blender. I imported an object and hid the vertices I didn't want with the Box Hide feature in sculpt mode. Now I would like to export to a .stl file only the visible vertices, ...
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How to connect a Field Node to a Group Input Node? Geometry Nodes Question
My question is quite basic: In Blender, you can connect certain sockets to the Group Input Node, which will then allow you to directly change the Geometry Node's settings (Since they are also ...
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How to deal with a flat but "distorted" surface
I have a selected flat surface as shown on the right picture. Now I want to create this flat surface which should fit the main area.
When I connect the edges from the geometry and turn these 4 ...
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how to make gaps of light between objects?
It is necessary to make gaps of light without separating the objects of the clouds from each other
