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How to take an assest I made and group it together to Appended in another project?
all I am very new to blender. I have been googling but cannot seem to find anything. I made a dumpster for scenes to use in the future. I parented it to an empty, but I cannot figure out how to group ...
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Dynamic paint Displace not rendering
I have been trying for the past couple of hours to render an animation with dynamic paint displace, but while it works in the viewport, it does not show up in the render. These are a few things I have ...
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How can Blender automatically update a 3d model from a changing network file
How can Blender automatically update a 3d model from a changing network file?
I have a networked drive that has a 3d model, let's say an ".obj" file, that is being worked on by either multiple people,...
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How to create a raw white rice material?
I'm looking for a very realistic material for rice. I've tried just turning up the subsurf, transmission with various IOR settings, messed around with mixing translucent shaders, tried using layer ...
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Passing variables in IntProperty constructors ignores changes in the variable when creating more instances using CollectionProperty.add()?
Sorry if the title is unclear.
I'm working on an addon which involves a UI with a list of IntProperties. I need to be able to add and remove elements from that list on the fly, and I want the min/max ...
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Bezier curve taper not working
I am trying to make a wine glass, exploiting its axial symmetry.
I have a bezier curve spine (a line) which I have bevelled using another bezier curve ...
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UV editing problem
I'm new to 3d animation and blender.
I'm following the blender donut tutorial of the blender guru.
However I face a problem when I try to UV unwrap my mesh.
Could someone explain whats going on?
I ...
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How to dynamically load a .dat icon (toolshelf icon)?
Using documentation here 2.80/Python_API/UI_DESIGN, I've managed to create a custom .dat tool shelf icon for use with an operator in my addon. The icon will display from my addon when registered from ...
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Objects invisible in any view except Solid [duplicate]
In any blender scene, objects look transparent or invisible in all views except solid mode. Is there a setting i should check? This has happened ever since i had blender and i couldn't fix it
The ...
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Is there a way to duplicate objects betwenn two objects?
Is there an add-on or other way to duplicate specified number of objects between other two objects? Modo has this function and for 3dsmax I have a script: https://youtu.be/A1rFqZxpxjc
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Rigging a leg that stick on the floor
I'm learning how to rig and for my little project I want to rig a leg (a robot). I have a rig for hip to knee. Another one from knee to heel. Then one from heel to the start of toes. And the last one ...
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Object rotates when Copy Location Constraint enabled
Blend file
I have a character that picks up an object using the Child Of Constraint, turns and then releases the object at an Empty using the Copy Location Constraint. When the Copy Location is ...
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Mechanical roller animation
I am making animations with rollers that move cubes. Here is a video I already made. I animated the cubes by hand...
link to youtube video
I am wondering it is possible to use physics to automate ...
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Not able to apply the most simple screw modifier possible
Add curve
Rotate as displayed in picture below
Add screw modifier
Tried other axis, got a dome instead of a ring
I want the result on the left but got the one on the right instead.
https://youtu.be/...
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Exporting UV Layout with only outlines
newbie here.
I have a very specific question. I’ve done a ton of research and didn’t find anything useful. So, as the Title suggests, I’m trying to export UV layout without all the edges inside of the ...
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How can I add color to the hair particle system considering I have a vertex group that it's dedicated on the right side of his head?
So, I thought I could assign my vertex group to that material and therefore my particle hair system will react to that behavior. Can someone enlighten me about how to this correctly? My hair is ...
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Boolean affect UV
I use substance painter to paint textures and apply it into blender. Everything was good until I use boolean modifier to punch a hole. The punching hole process is an animation, so I cannot use ...
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How to move points along their rotation in geometry nodes?
I would like to do something like this: randomly rotate points, place object instances, move points to new positions by a set amount BUT in the direction of current rotation, (and then repeat).
But I ...
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hooking cloth to cloth
I want to pin two cloths together like the beginning of a second rope.002 to the end of a first rope.001. If I use a hook (pin rope.002 vertex group "top-end" to rope.001, it seems ...
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Where is Point Cloud?
Just downloaded version 2.92 for Mac. I am unable to find the Point Cloud option in the Add menu. Am I missing something?
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Why this error appears “GPUTexture: Blender Texture Not Loaded!”?
I am performing a material removal from an object, via bpy.ops.object.material_slot_remove() into Blender 2.91
So far everything ok, so immediately after that ...
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Trouble weight painting character
I tried my best to rig my first character, but every time I try to weight paint something seems to go wrong. The automatic weights are ok but need some editing. However every time I try to do that I ...
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Need Python support (Blender API): How to find all occurences of one “thing” in the hole Blender file? [closed]
I need to find all appearances of a certain "thing" (anything with a name) in a blender file. I start with haveing no Info about that "thing" and no name. I have no clue how to ...
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Is there a difference in doing Anaglyph 3D directly in blender instead of using other apps?
I am working on an anaglyph (Red/Cyan glasses) 3D animation for work. After doing some brochures in Photoshop I can get the image to really pop off the screen.
However when I try those same ...
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Retopologizing this mess?
I sculpted this based on my beginner knowledge (forsaking any complex sculpting knowledge that might discourage and keep me from getting to the end), but now I want to paint and pose the character and ...
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Can someone please help me with the shading?
I'm a beginner to Blender and I have a shading problems.. I can't see world theme in backgrounds.I use blender 2.83.2 version
First photo my pc:
I want the see in the second photo..
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Copy RENDER OUTPUT (image result) to Windows clipboard?
How possible would it be to include a function in the Compositor, UV Editor and Image Editor that can "COPY TO CLIPBOARD" whatever image they have active?
The image editor "Copy to ...
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Background Image Setting Equirectangular is missing
For some reason, a previous saved blender project managed to give me the Background image option called 'Equirectangular' to successfully show the image. However, having recently started another ...
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Render settings are not applying
Why i have 40 Path Tracing with low render setting?
It seems like the render settings i make are not applying anymore.
What can i do solve this? I want to regain my old render settings with 1 Path ...
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I have a shadin problems pls help me [duplicate]
I'm a beginner to Blendre have a shading problem
I can't see world theme in backgrounds & world screen looks black when the blender enters the shading section.2.83.2.
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Why do I get a 'Failed to set value' error when trying to add a 'Copy Location' constraint to my rig?
I'm trying add a Copy Location constraint but it doesn't work. I am making a metarig like in the video but if I press enter its cast nothing happens.
I tried picker thing I get this error:
Blend file ...
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Locked track Camera error
Locked track object to camera x axis is very strange
When camera is on z axis(rotation) x axis of cube turn up
Is python can change it?
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Issue with Volume Absorption inside Glass
first time posting here and very new to blender, Im following BlenderGuru's latest tutorial and I'm having some issues with volume absorption, this is of course not a job, I don't have a deadline, so ...
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Merging vertices and other tools ignoring SubSurf in 2.80
I'm trying to connect two shapes in blender but whenever I try to connect the vertices, whether it's through merging them individually (alt + m), using the bridge tool, or through Remove Doubles (now ...
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How can a Curve take over the Tilt from another Object?
There are actually two Questions.
The best Way is to explain it Step by Step:
1: A Surface with many Faces that are uneven among each other.
2a: A Curve is divided into as many Parts as there are ...
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Problems with set up Wacom pen middle click button…it is impossible to rotate view
My Blender version is 2.83.1
my Operating System is MacOS 10.15.5
Wacom Drivers 6.3.39-1
so...if I try to set up the first button as a middle click for having a rotating navigation control on my pen ...
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Knife tool perpendicular cut
While working in maya for a long time, i'm slowly start to explore blender and adore it tools, but when i start using knife tool i couldn't find an option that been used all the time in work, and it's ...
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How to make a car door hinge upwards?
I have arrived in Blender animation hell and I need help.
I'm trying to make a car door open by hinging it upwards - the problem I have is that the edge where the car door and bodywork meet is not ...
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Adding cloth displaces mesh geometry
When I add a Cloth modifier to an FBX-imported mesh ("thread004"), the mesh suddenly jumps to a new location distant from its origin. Is there a way to prevent this? The "thread004&...
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Viewport performance worsens the longer Blender is open [closed]
Problem: As Blender runs, viewport performance degrades. This performance degradation is irrespective of complexity of scene.
This issue is affecting my work on my laptop, which has modest specs, but ...
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Inverse Kinematics Small Issue
Any recommendations to keep the bendy bones from snapping like that when moving the IK Target (red bone) up and down?
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Hiding Entire Panels and Other Elements from the UI
I'd like to hide the vast majority of the user interface. The users of my addon are biologists who are often quite intimidated by computers, so I'd like to limit the confusion on the screen to just ...
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How do I apply time remapping?
So, I have an animation which should be at half the speed that it originally was. So I time remapped it. But when I did this, the animation did what it was supposed to do, it played at half speed. But ...
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bpy.data.images[“ID”].save_render(“XXX”) changes color space
I tried to save a baked image using
bpy.data.images["Image Id Name"].save_render("C:/path/to/file.png")
but this always changes the colorspace and I couldn't ...
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How do you show and hide the grid? Viewport overlays dimmed out
I imagine if I close and reopen blender it fix it.. But I'm curious to what I might have done.
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Moving textured pipe along path
i need to animate a cable being moved trough a machine, ive tested ways to do this with the curve/bevel and playing with the start/stop of this, problem comes when i have a texture on it as this ends ...
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Snap two nearly identical objects exactly together
I have two objects that were originally the exact same object. I duplicated one, and then made changes to it, rotated it, cut it, etc...
I'd like to overlap it with the original (both objects ...
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Armature Uneven deforming with Modifiers?
I've had a very vexing issue for some time now and I can't seem to find a fix.
I have an armature set up with a mesh (mostly done) but some parts of the mesh deform entirely out of sync, and this ...
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Blender + OSM: A valid directory for data in the addon preferences isn't set
Im having difficulties using the OSM plugin for blender.
I installed and activated the plugin but I get this error:
A valid directory for data in the addon preferences isn't set
Thank you