Questions tagged [packed-data]
Relates to packing textures and other data files inside `.blend` files.
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How to attach all the textures in my scene to blender
I created a project on my computer but as my computer has trouble rendering heavy scenes I send it to a render farm, so it can be faster.
The problem starts when the botaniq assets (the plugin I use ...
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Does blender support packing .vdb files?
Does blender support packing .vdb files? Also should Blender report if .vdb file is missing when you press ...
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Image texture with an alpha channel does not get packed
When I pack my blender project I have a texture that uses an image texture (video) as the base colour (with an alpha channel, making the background of it transparent) and when I pack it, that specific ...
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Make path Relative fails because of copybuffer
I try to setup my scene for Renderfarm so i need to pack/unpuck all Resources and make them relative.
When i try to make Path Relative it has lots of fails.
I used ctrl+c(from old blend file) / ctrl+V(...
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How to pack addons into blend file?
I am using assets and scatter function of botaniq addon and I would like to upload this to a render farm online - which allows me to upload folders as well.
I tried pack all resources which did not ...
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Send blend file with vdb
I have a blend file set up with vdb clouds.
Now I want to send it to someone.
However, even though I packed the file and sent it, the vdb is not showing on viewport. It is appearing in the outliner.
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Blender Unpack deletes image files with duplicate filenames
Inside a packed .blend file, images with same name are shown with different numeric suffixes. These come from files that have the same name but are in different paths in the filesystem.
example:
\..\...
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Does unpacking textures give better performance in viewport and render?
I've gotten used to automatically packing my textures into the blend file, but I wonder if that can make my viewport perfomance slower, (Rendering and not rendering in viewport)
Should I unpack for ...
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I am trying to pack a blend file but i keep getting an error
I am trying to pack a blend file, but I keep getting an error that the path of a particular item is not found. I tried deleting that particular texture and adding it again. Same error.
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store custom data to blender file (json text)
I am trying to write/read custom data in blender files (a json text in this case). For that I want to use my custom addon. But there are some requirements about how this data is stored:
Ideally this ...
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Blender saving baked internal normal image always in .EXR
i am using the addon simple bake for baking pbr maps for objects.
If i use External Data > Unpack all into files to export an FBX with image textures, blender is saving all images as .PNG except ...
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Packing libraries into Blend - again, but different!
so, I'm desperately trying to upload this Blend to Renderstreet.
In order of appearance:
IES won't pack. OK, figured how to integrate the code in scripting area. Not "user friendly", though....
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Why isn't "Pack all into .blend" / "Automatically Pack into .blend" packing materials or images?
Blender 2.92.0.
I have three files: source.blend, destination.blend, and test_image.png.
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Convert files packed in Blend file
A model I downloaded has textures packed that are in TGA format. I want to convert the images into PNG format because it takes up less storage space. Is there a way I can easily convert all the files ...
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unpack/relocate textures to a folder other than ./texture
If I unpack a blender file, it creates a folder called "texture", that is within the current folder. Instead I'd like to default the unpack to a folder the is common across many 3d ...
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'Ctrl+S' doesn't save modified textures ==> lost hours of work
My Blender daily life is :-
Create a texture
Pack it
Save (Ctrl+S)
Edit the texture
Save (Ctrl+S)
Blender crashes ===> I lose all work in Step 4.
(This can also be tested by terminating the ...
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How does selective packing of external data work?
I would like to pack specific external data into a .blend file.
The Documentation says:
A single file can be packed by clicking on the little “gift box” icon to the left of its file-path UI widget.
(...
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Inconsistant behavior when re-linking missing textures. sRGB and Non-Color mismatches
I am having some trouble when re-linking image textures that have single user copies using different color spaces. I.E. A texture being used multiple times in the file, both in Non-Color and sRGB ...
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Packing all linked Files for Render Farm submission [duplicate]
So I want to submit a project to a renderfarm. I have multiple links to other .blend files in the project since this saves memory and speeds up the render a lot. The blend files are roughly 5 GB ...
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How to write bpy.data.libraries avoid packed file with python?
I'm trying to create a .blend file that saves the scene, but I would like the image files to be separate, so I created a script that saves the bpy.data.images image files in a folder next to the ....
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How can I export a model with its textures applied?
I have a blender model that is 7Mb, a laptop with 4 image textures applied to it. I am trying to export it to use in Google Poly.
When I follow this tutorial to export as a .fbx, the resulting .fbx ...
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Packed textures not showing Blender 2.8*
Here's the file (7.5 Mb) https://www.dropbox.com/s/6hkim9hj0ntw013/NiRoadSigns_Full.blend?dl=0
I downloaded this packed Blender file, created in 2.8. When I open it none of the textures show (the ...
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How to successfully transfer one .blend to another computer and keep everything intact?
Okay, here's what's going on. I have one of my biggest animation projects yet that I will be sending to another computer to render. I have packed the image textures so as to make sure that they will ...
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Pack specific external file
How can I pack exactly 1 specific file into the .blend on Blender 2.82?
In external data, I have many texture files. Some I use in all my ...
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Pack rendered images into .blend? [duplicate]
I have a problem: I render images, and if Blender accidentally quits while performing some sort of operation, I lose my rendered data. (If only a single unsaved image).
I have external data > 'Pack ...
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How to use Image Maps with Stock Model
I would like to know how to open a 3D stock model with all supplied image maps in place. I believe the model was created in Blender. I made a quick render and the image maps don't appear to be on the ...
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Can't pack blender file for rendering on a render farm
Still really new to blender, I'm trying to upload a blender project to a render farm as my computer too slow, i am having trouble packing my "images as planes", i click on external data>pack all into ....
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Pack PNG Sequence in Blend File
Can anyone point me in a direction towards learning WHY you can't pack PNG sequences in a blend file? I know that you can't... But it seems like it would be an easy feature to add. Thanks!
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Is there a python command to package all the files in an existing .blend without it being opened?
I was wondering if there was a python command that packs existing .blend files, without having to open them.
For example having a folder full of 3d models with textures, videos , music, inside, I was ...
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How can I make a box like product packet?
I need to design 3D model something like packet of product with just 2-3 sides. I have images for front face and back face of a packet. I just need to assign images only and no shadow or anything ...
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'Pack into Blend' doesn't include .Mov Files
brand new to blender, having jumped ship from Davinci Resolve/Fusion in order to make a music video in a 3d environment.
Loving the workflow so far, but have hit on one big snag straight away.
The ...
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How to get pack project status
I was wondering if there was a way to get the status of the project, whether it's Packed or not in python, and in the case how to get that information, I checked the api but with little success.
Not ...
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Is there a way to pack all simulation results in to one file?
So I have a simulation that I will do on one computer then move to another to do the rendering.The reason is because computer A is faster at simulation but bad at rendering computer B is horrible at ...
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Why can't I display this 3D scan correctly?
I downloaded this model from Turbosquid and I can't seem to get it to display correctly with textures in Blender (am using 2.8). Can anybody suggest a solution?
This is how the model should look in ...
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Is it possible to "pack" a .mdd mesh cache animation into the .blend?
I've successfully loaded a mesh cache .mdd file to create an animated mesh. However, if I choose File > External Data > Pack All Into .blend the mesh sequence ...
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Saved The Image, But Forgot To Pack The Image To The Blender File
I finished texture painting some cargo pants onto my 3D model and saved the texture as an image, but forgot to pack the image to the blender file.
Once I realized this, I went back into the project ...
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Pack external files - with photoshop files?
Ok I know you can pack external images into your blend by packing external data, but I this doesnt really work with photoshop files.
I have several images as planes that link back to .ai files that ...
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How to save blender project without the original files [Unable to pack file Warning]
I'm really new to blender here, and I was looking for an environment for import so I can render a picture of a room from a very specific POV to use in an After Effects project.
So I downloaded a free ...
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How do I get file such as texture out of already packed blender file?
So I downloaded some .blend files, and it came in .blend files with packed texture file (meaning the texture is not in separate files or folder, but packed inside the .blend file).
How do I get the ...
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UV space and stacking UV's on top of each other to share the same texture
Coming from MODO, I'm playing with Nodes and the UV editor. Strange thing I made a UV of a simple side of a cube (a square) but when I imported the image the UV stretched to fit the image. In MODO it ...
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Issue with packed texture images
I've just ran into something annoying when packing textures. As you can see when texture image is packed it is all over the place. This just started to happen today and I'm completely lost as of what ...
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Packing Linked Blend Files with textures?
I'm struggling to get a file packed so that I can set up a render farm at my work, the problem I'm having is that the textures are not packing from the Linked files, everything else is working fine ...
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multiple file package changes in blender 2.7?
In fact I want to pack many add-ons.
I was using some "standard" __init__.py check
but in reality this does not work, then I tried the example of wiki blender ...
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Locally linked .blend file lost - can I recover the model?
I have been working on a scene with a model linked from a local .blend file. This local file has now accidentally been deleted, so I'm left with a model I can't interact with in any way because the ...
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Packed images files are missing... but they are no longer used! (I think...)
I am working on a scene where I have replaced all of my textures and packed everything. However, blender is insisting that I am using a couple of textures that it can't find.
I have been going ...
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Can you texture an object with a camera's render every frame? (animation in an animation) [duplicate]
So what I want to do is animate a texture on an object using a camera's view of other objects in the same .blend file (possibly in another Scene.) As the animated objects under the texture camera move,...
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Embedd color managment LUT into blend file
I have started to use filmic-blender, which solves alot of lightning problems (I think it should be embedded into blender as soon as possible). However, now the blend files are not stand-alone, so I ...
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Creating and packing a 32-bit float image
How can I specify the file type and color depth when generating and packing an image with Python?
I'm trying to generate an image with full 32-bit float color depth and pack it into my blend file but ...
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Unable to Pack File. How to re-pack it?
Similar questions have been asked before, but not quite the same, and no suitable answer found.
I rendered a scene on one computer. Some texture images were on a USB memory stick plugged into "G:...
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