Questions tagged [workflow]
Questions about any workflow in Blender, or just ways to go about doing something.
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Active rigid body bounces at a million miles [closed]
i animated rigidbody to interact with passive rigid body but it behaves so weird
i have screen record uploaded + screen shot of both active and passive rigid body
Screen record : https://drive.google....
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Zbrush Workflow in Blender?
I've decided to swith from Zbrush and start sculpting in Blender instead. I do props for games and my workflow in Zbrush was:
Create a base blockout mesh in 3D software
Split hard edges into ...
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Is it possible to double click a .glb file in windows and have it open in Blender?
I am a game developer and when I'm working, I go in and out of hundreds of different .glb files (sometimes .obj, sometimes .fbx) and it is very tedious to go through the import/export process every ...
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Glass modeling workflow?
So this might be a niche question without a good answer, but I have an awful lot of trouble modeling things that use a lot of transparent materials like environments with lots of glass. It would help ...
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how to get 2d bounding box(x_min,x_max,y_min,y_max values) from IndexOB output of RenderLayer node in Blender compositor?
I'm doing synthetic data generation for AI training. I need to render lots of images a scene, and giving the 2d bounding box value of each object in the image(assuming that all object in the scene ...
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How to save Depth layer with sky?
When I try to save it normally I get white image. Somebody advised to use normalize node and it works. But if sky is present (infinite depth) it doesn't normalize properly. I tried playing with map ...
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Correct Sculpting Workflow for Animating Mouth and Eyelids / Human (and Animals)
I've recently tried to sculpt a Human Mesh. I was wondering, however, to approach the mouth/eyelids part of the head.
I want to animate this mesh and I will obviously Retopo the whole thing. The ...
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Bevel the edges of a cube and then add new face to the top face of the cube breaks the topology
In Blender 4.0.2, on the default cube, if I want to add a face using the Inset Faces tool in Edit Mode on the top face of the cube, then select two edges of the cube and bevel them, I get a nice ...
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how to move objects away from each other by the same distance?
I have multiple objects that I want to align them on the Y axis by the same distance.
How to achieve this?
Closest thing I got to it is using the randomize function, but it scatters them at a random ...
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Transfer UV data from one mesh to another .blend
I want to copy a mesh's UV data (including 3 UV channels) to the same mesh but in another .blend.
Both meshes are identical in vertex count.
Is there a quick solution?
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Help understanding selection functionality or is this wrong?
This is maybe more a workflow question, but I find myself consistently frustrated with Blender with the following workflow. Please follow these instruction precisely to encounter what I'm talking ...
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Question about making a Five Nights at Freddy's character
I'm pretty new to Blender, but I'm trying to create some Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) characters for a project of mine.
My question is: Should I create an endoskeleton first? And then use that ...
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Blender File getting too large after workflow
i'm currently working on a visualisation for an event company.
They want different spaces to be shown to a pending client. For this purpose i've built a file that i can create all these spaces in, but ...
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Cant find "project individual elements"
I tried everything but the "project individual elements" command still doesn't appear.
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Transform tab, increasing dimensions decimal precision
I realized I left out a few details and overcomplicated this. I'm working in inches which only has 1 decimal place in the dimensions tab and I'm trying to add more decimal places.
I'm trying to get ...
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How can I quickly place assets on a grid?
I'm currently learning Blender and have taken on a personal project of building a city to keep pushing myself. I'm currently designing generic buildings and other assets of varying sizes and shapes to ...
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How do I open a new file on blender 4.0
I upgraded to the latest 4.0 version recently but now everytime I try File->New->General it just brings up the last blend file I worked on! I want a new blank file. If I had wanted the last one ...
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3D procedural material workflow
I’m a product designer getting into blender to do product renders and animations and being having issues with procedural materials workflow.
I recently bought Lance Phans’s wood shader and have been ...
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Character all wrong in armature
I made this character for fun but I can't fix it in armature and when I put it in automatic weights and rotate a bone it looks all wrong. I've already tried to fix it in weight paint but without ...
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How do I extrude so that it doesn't deform my object?
I have this object that I'm trying to model but there's that extruded object that I'm trying to recreate. The problem that I keep running into is that when I tried loop cutting the object it becomes ...
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The process of creating a complete character, including animation
I have a simple low poly 3d character.
I would like to use some method to add more polygons to the head area to create more detail to the head area (then sculpting modeling). Which network ...
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Efficiently create a big set of object [closed]
I am creating a low poly forest for my project. I want to use a big library of assets (that I am making).
I figured that what works best for me so far is to create branches separately from the trunks ...
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Custom user path?
I remember watching a Blender Today sometime last year where Pablo was showing off a new feature where you could change the location of your user path, but for the life of me I can’t find that option ...
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Ball squeeze through pipes
I am trying to make simulation similar to this (around 5sec)
https://www.pinterest.es/pin/573997915020314265/
and i have this issue that the ball wont come trough the pipe like on the picture. Any ...
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Way to subdivide beveled face automaticaly
Im beveling simple cuboid and in order to create edge loops after that i must manually reconstruct some of the faces. Im just a beginner so maybe i missed something in documentation. What i want after ...
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Functions to remove extra faces & fix normals? | Marvelous Designer FBX to Blender Workflow
[edit] Here's the project file:
While I realize that the answer may be staring me in the face, I've also sunk a lot of time into this with no real progress.
I'm working on using custom Marvelous ...
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New in Baking. From High to Low mesh
I have followed several tutorials on baking normals onto a low poly mesh.
This is my High Mesh:
This is my Low Mesh:
I am also using a Cage encompassing both the low and high poly mesh:
I turned on ...
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Creating wrinkles on a shirt
I created a base shirt using cloth physics , and have been experimenting a few methods to create wrinkle ( edit mode , procedural nod set up , normals texture painting ) but my results are not very ...
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Move to next/prev marker keystroke not working in Blender 3.6.4
I just downloaded 3.6.4 and have discovered that Ctrl-Shift-[left arrow|right arrow] no longer moves the timeline between markers. Is this something other people have noted, and is there a fix?
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The phenomenon where a model created in Blender does not load in VroidMobile
You've successfully converted a model created in Blender to a VRM file and uploaded it to VroidHub. However, the model isn't displaying in VroidMobile on your smartphone.
VroidHub and VroidMobile ...
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Procedural material orientation
I'm new here on Blender, so I create my procedural wood material and I applied it on four separate objects. I'm wondering if there's a way do give a different orientation on each object for the same ...
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Can you Move an Annotaion Layer to a different Annotation Data-Block
I want to know if there is a way to Move an annotation layer from one Annotation data-block to another
Move this Annotation Layer
In This Annotation Layer
To this annotation layer
Thankyou For ...
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How to model coiled up cables
Blender to the rescue?
After working pretty extensively with Solidworks for 2 years, I was tasked to model some realistic looking coiled up cables for solar panels. SW is definitely not made for that ...
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What is the correct way to make an asset that I use in a scene?
I'm fairly new to Blender. I'd like to be able to easily make assets that I will reuse, while working on a scene. (Assets could be models, but also materials etc.) I want to do this non-destructively, ...
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Why does my AO bake have hard edges?
I'm trying to learn how to sculpt high poly and bake into a low poly game ready mesh. I'm at the stage where I need to bake an AO map, but mine doesn't look like other examples I see. Here's what it ...
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Use Shader, Objects etc. from other Projects [duplicate]
Just a simple question.
Is there a way to save shaders/object in blender?
Or just browse other projects and import stuff into other Projects.
I know i could open a older project, copy shader & ...
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How can I set curve tilt in curve sculpt mode?
I've been updating my stylized hair workflow from using individual NURBS curves, to using the new hair sculpting features. One feature I was not able to find is the ability to change the tilt of ...
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I need to confirm changes made with the "return-key" since I updated to 3.6
Just as the title says, since I updated to blender version 3.6, I need to confirm actions and changes like inserting loop cuts, (un-)parenting, adding crease and bevel values, etc. It is really ...
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Using a blender addon within VScode
I am currently working on automating a data processing pipeline in Blender using Python scripting. To enhance the automation process, I want to utilize the functionality provided by a Blender addon ...
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Redirect edge flow
Beginner's question. I'm working on the low poly version of the model on the left side of the image and I want to understand what's the best way to redirect the edge flow of my model's topology for ...
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Pinching problem
So I have a 3D model with the following problem - one vertex is kind of holding too much topology in once. I am not entirely sure as to how I can fix this pinching issue (maybe separate it, but how ...
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How do you guys deal with Render Slots?
I have been using the addon "Shift Render Slot" for Blender since I first switched from Cinema 4D in 2017. (In C4D there are no render slots, you just get a full history of your renders ...
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Caves for Unreal Engine - convenient workflow
I'm doing a caves for my terrain. I have 2 solution, but none are good enough
Caves are just a simple shapes - later I'm going to improve
The problem is - to merge a landscape and a caves
Solution I ...
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Alpha, Transparency, Blender, Sony Vegas, Workflow, & solutions
I rendered a video in blender as ffmpeg qt mov. File w xlpha transparency.
To make the video file size more manageable, I went with another render of the same file; in Sony Vegas. So I added the file, ...
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How can I organize a shots without duplicating the whole scene?
I need a solution which is close to something called "takes" in Cinema4D,
so every "take" contains the overrides to default object properties, e.g. materials, animations, active ...
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Export stylized hair from blender to ue5 workflow
Good day. I can't find information about exporting stylized hair for anime character from blender to ue5. I want to know how to export it and how to animate it in unreal. I know that I can export ...
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Wanting to export mesh from substance painter to blender
Blender baking capabilities were giving me trouble so i decided to use substance painter to bake high poly details onto a low poly mesh.
Now i’m having trouble exporting the new low poly mesh back ...
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How to create a node group to quickly select a color from a list for semantic segmentation
I have a list with 150 colors, all representing a type of object in a scene (for example: walls, ceiling, grass, cabinet, painting, water, chair, table etc).
you can see the list here
I want to create ...
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How can I recreate this carving onto a new body?
I have a scan I'm trying to recreate, its a wheel rim part and Im a beginner in blender, I can't recreate the carving that I circled in on the picture, I tried using cylinder with array so I can keep ...
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Cinematic renders / scattering / foliage
I'm looking for advice on how i can use some high quality assets and scatter them fairly densely in a scene,
I feel as if I've seen certain workflows in max and other industry software where as you ...
