Questions tagged [system]
Use this tag for questions targeting the interaction between Blender and the underlying operating system.
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Assign Field on a Particle System Slot
I wanted to know if there was a way to assign a Field to a Particle System Slot,
I have 3 different Fields and I would like some to act individually on 3 different Particle Slots on the same emitter
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Why does Blender keep freezing?
I'm still quite new to Blender and I am trying out all kind of tutorials out there but my Blender keeps freezing the moment I go a bit into more complex projects.
I tried 2.8, 2.91, 3.0, they all ...
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Blender Install crashes at end and window pops up The specified path K:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Micosoft|' is unavailable
When trying to install the program it crashes at the end with a popup message
blender Setup
The specified path
'K:\Users...\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft' is unavailable.
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Using two different GPUs for display and rendering
In the GPU Rendering manual https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cycles/gpu_rendering.html
it states that when rendering heavy scenes on the GPU it is best to have two different gpus: One ...
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How to I make two objects spiral together, such as in a binary star system?
I am trying to make a simulation of two stars colliding. I can't seem to figure out how to make them spiral together, the way stars would.
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How to override where Save Versions (.blend1) files are saved to
I see via this question:
How do I get blender to stop creating so many files?
That we can alter how many files are saved, and can turn off the feature.
My problem is that I still want the feature, but ...
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Crash by autosave
I'm on 2.93.2 LTS, working on a large Archviz scene.
Autosave is set to 1 minute, which is probably why that darn thing is so badly responsive, plus my prior lack of knowledge & thought about ...
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how to make sure that the forcefield does not affect particle system
I'm working on a project which uses forcefield for soft body, but it is also effecting my particle system. how do i make sure it does not impact the particle system.
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How to specify a scripts directory using Python or Environment Variable for all users?
At our studio the art team is using Blender and I am trying to figure out a way to specify a shared folder as a source for scripts/addons so that everyone has access to the same tools.
I was able to ...
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I'm experiencing severe lag and long delays for pretty much all actions
So I just installed Blender today, and the problem didn't start till about 2 hours into my first donut tutorial attempt. At first everything felt fine and responsive, but as I got further along ...
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I'm trying to add a hair system but every time i try the hairs go off along the axis and at weird angles any help?
zoomed out shot of a simple plane with a hair particle system
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Are my CPU temperatures okay and safe while rendering? [closed]
I have been rendering quite long animation with my laptop and decided to check the CPU temperatures. I render on my GPU, but the processor (intel i5-8300h) is much hotter. Most of the time the ...
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Issues setting units to 0.01 meters
When I set the scene units to 0.01 meters several issues appear, and I hope there's a simple solution.
When set to adjust origin, the origin access icon is ridiculously tiny (this would be a ...
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Blender lags with 40,00,000 faces
Blender lags with 40,00,000 faces in my Laptop with 8 gb ram ryzen 5 4600h cpu , gtx 1650. What must be the reason ? Is it my Ram?
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MacBook Pro 2020 +eGPU +RX5700xt +Cycles Problem [duplicate]
Yesterday I received the Razer Core X with an AMD RX5700 XT Graphics card to use with Blender 2.92. Unfortunately, Cycles will not recognize this eGPU in the Blender System Cycles render device ...
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Blender using C:\ -s storage even if it doesn't have any ties to that disk
I wanted to export an fbx file to a lots of obj files, and needed to unwrap it, but the unwrap crashes Blender because of lack of storage in the C drive.
Blender and all of its folders (even the temp) ...
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Issues opening files created in 2.8 in 2.83
Today I uninstalled blender completely from my computer after using 2.8 for a long time. i kept all the files and even opened the files on another computer in the same version (2.83) that i installed ...
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How can I prevent Blender from making a dump when crashing
Blender recently caused a severe problem with my operating system (OpenSuse 15.2) when it crashed, leaving a huge data dump, which caused my whole system to freeze or crash thereafter, whenever it was ...
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Particle system puts everything on a circle around object ? Tried with Geometry nodes too, the same
New to blender I try modeling a tick .. I'm about to put hait on the body but it doesn't work.. when I add a partcile system (or geometry nodes) everything is added on a circle around the object.. ...
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Duplicate particle emitter
How to duplicate particle system, please clearly explain how to do. And I will show a pic of the particle emitter to change the name of the 1st step so I want to duplicate the 1st step so I don't know ...
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How does python bundled interpreter work, and why am I getting thees crashes?
I have experimented quite a bit with extending the modules that come with the blender bundled python. It is confusing to me, and seems not well documented anywhere how it actually works.
A folder ...
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How does Blender take advantage of normal RAM vs GPU VRAM?
I tried searching but could not find a definitive answer on blender stackexchange.
I'm looking to upgrade a rendering Rig, and the RAM is a bit old... I know for most of my work I use cycles which ...
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Blender closes/crashes everytime I open and close a window
Since yesterday blender constantly closes/crashes everytime I open and close a window.
So far this happens on every window I have tried (e.g. file output path, file import, viewport windows, image ...
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How to setup your system python for use with Blender
I found lots of material on how to make Blender use the system version of python. Essentially: delete the python folder of the install, and Blender looks for a system version, where on some systems ...
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String systax misinterpretation [closed]
I'm trying to get the path to my addon on the cpmputer with this command:
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2.8 to 2.82+ update issue
So ive had 2.8 for a longgg time. I have literally hundreds of projects that ive created in 2.8 and linked and appended back and forth with other files. I have tried a few times to download the newer ...
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After crash, images appear as black sihoettes and all text dissappears
I had several instances of blender running, and they all crashed at once as I started a render with a procedural materials.
Now, when I load:
All images in viewports are black silhoettes.
Text and ...
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Blender 2.91 menu highlighting and background is a half triangle with a half transparent triangle - how to turn off?
I just installed Blender 2.91 and now the menus all have triangles in the background with half of the menu and menu items highlighted by a triangle and the other triangular half of the menu is ...
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What Particle/Face means/does?
I'm fallowing a tutorial about Hair. And in the Tutorial, he alters the value of the Particle/Face property in The Particle System but don't explain what it does.
And I'm not noticing any difference ...
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Where I can find the filepath to a texture used in the Image Textue node?
I'd like to edit the textures coming along with a packed blend file. I already did the 'unpacking' and set the paths to absolute using *External Data -> Make all paths absolute. However, I can not ...
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Blender 2.9 does not recognize my GPU
Until now until Blender 2.83.4 my GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12288 MB is recognized via CUDA. With Blender 2.90 and Blender 2.90.1 no GPU is seen, also not under CUDA. What is wrong?
I'am therefor ...
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Blender lag, freeze but i have a good config
I'm a Blender beginner, and i have a lot of lags and freezing, even sometimes completely frozen, temporarily (which is rare).
My computer specs
GeForce GTX 1050
Ryzen 7 3750H Radeon Vega, 4-cores 8 ...
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Poor Undo Performance: Blender 2.9
I'm having issues with Undo locking up Blender on the first undo action following some action.
This happens whether I remain in one mode, or on one obj. Basically say I rotate a joint and I don't like ...
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Grass Particle System is Sideways
Whenever I do Grass tutorials, or try to make grass in Blender, I always have a problem with the Grass Orientation.
The Grass particles are always rotated sideways. I try to change the Rotation ...
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An rendered image containing emissions particles, when zoomed in get's very pixelated
So I have created a Christmas scene where there are houses and particles all around the house which is made by particle systems and emission.
When I render it and zoom the pic all the particles are ...
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Why does undo move back more than one step or not work at all?
I have the latest version of blender (2.83.2). I have issues with undo.
When I press Ctrl+Z it doesn't move back one step instead it may return to first step in the first project or doesn't move back ...
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Particle System water ripple effect not visible in final render. why?
I made a lave animation effect by using a particle system with a lava plane as canvas and another invisible plane as emitter brush which emits cube to impact with the canvas plane and animate the ...
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Blender 2.8 dosen't recognizing my graphics card [duplicate]
I have GeForce GT610. I saw the settings of Nvdia control panel and add Blender for CUDA support but Blender 2.8 is not recognized my graphics card.
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Particles of a particle system react not as an own object
I have an ATM and would like the money to fly out from it.
I have made the cash box into a particle system.
The money flies out of the cash box, but it flies downwards, because the bill also flies ...
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Blender stops responding temporarily when adjusting sliders
The Blender application frequently stops responding temporarily when I attempt to adjust value sliders in the UI. Once it starts responding again I can adjust sliders normally however, five minutes ...
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System requirements
I have a laptop with 4GB RAM (hp i3) Intel graphic card of 2gb. I have downloaded blender 2.82. Is it ok to use that in my laptop? I am going to use only Eevee engine. Will using blender cause a ...
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Blender crashes constantly since v2.80 on Linux when using Nouveau driver
I started using Blender at v2.80 and it is constantly crashes ever since, after approximately 2-3 mins after startup. I use Arch Linux with nouveau driver. Blender ...
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Layout is weird and there is multiple ones that is the same/wrong spot
What did I do here...I accidentally added new things (IDK what it is called but the picture shows).
How do you get rid of this and bring it back to the default layout? With no extra stuff...I have no ...
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Blender doesn't use system resources optimally
let me just preface this by saying I am new to Blender and have a very minimal knowledge pf it as of now.
The problem happened as I was following along with a tutorial and while doing a cloth ...
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Blender keeps on saying "Not responding"
So, I am trying to make something.
Whenever I try to press something, blender freezes and says "not responding". Like every two seconds. I cannot use blender if this keeps on happening.
I feel it's ...
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I wish to enroll for the course, but I need to know, first, what would be the computer configuration required to run and work on Blender, effectively?
I wish to enroll for the course, but, before that, I need to know what would be the ideal computer configuration required to run and work on Blender, effectively?
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Node wrangler not working blender2.82a in Mac OS
I am using Mac Book air as my device and I am new to Blender.
Node wrangler shortcut like Shift + Cmd + Left Click or Cmd + Space bar doesn’t work as they coincide with the system shortcut eg. Cmd +...
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Raked sand/gravel
First time posting but long time lurker :) I'm trying to do a zen garden and I'm stuck in finding a way to model the raked sand/gravel surrounding the stones.
I'm not a pro and so far I've modelled a ...
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'Toggle System Console' is not in the window tab
v2.82a mac osx high sierra.
Anyway to turn this on elsewhere?
I've tried the search menu and check earlier versions.
Thanks
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New Linux system for Blender
I have just received my new Linux computer, I am coming from MAC background and I am having a few problems.
I have a AMD 3970X with Nvidia 2080Ti with 64Gbs Ram but my system lags and Blender crashes....
