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I am trying to set up a Minecraft rig mouth that will have more controls and will be rounded, but I am having issues trying to figure out what this guy did here. First, he did what looked like a loop ...

I tried to redefine a shortcut in my addon registration step, but I can't find which one to change. In the user one (...

Is there a way to automatically set selected nodes to use a specific vector input? E.g. If you have a larger node setup with a lot of texture nodes, it can be a pain to go back through and connect ...

I'm using the blender game engine, and I'd like to generate an object each time a key is pressed (i.e. press Space, and a rock will be loaded into a catapult) My problem is that I am using this ...

My scene currently has 2 objects in it from imported gis data sets. The first object contains a series of cubes, think building shapes. The second object contains a series of vertices that define the ...

I'm having massive trouble exporting UV coordinates from Blender. I'm using the following code: ...

How to know which object is using a material. I know that a material is used 4 time -> picture under: I'm searching a solution with python and I'm blocked here : ...

I'm writing a script to make playblast (animation preview) via OpenGL render. I want to start play back rendered frames right after rendering is done. How I can do it? For now my code looks like this =...

Can anyone assist me in getting a part of a mirrored object to move without overlapping into itself? In 3DSMax it consisted of changing the view from global to local and then the whole thing moved ...

I was searching for how to create smoothing groups in Blender, and everybody seems to say I should use Edge Split. But this will actually create new edges, destroying the topology of the object! Is ...

So, I'm currently developing a game with unity for which I created a bird, rigged it, and created several actions for it. I then unwrapped and textured it. But now all the actions aren't working ...

In a scene I linked two groups (object and rig) and appended an action, now I'm experimenting what would be the best workflow to animate more characters in a scene. I would like to have a set of ...

Can you help with inserting of all characters of a font (for example I loaded an Arial font) into 3D Text? For example I created a 3D Text object and I need to insert all characters with Python: All ...

I've modeled a clock and saved it as clock using blender 2.56. I've also modeled a room using blender 2.56 and saved it as room. I've made the clock a group and named this group clock. How do I open ...

When I press I to activate the Insert Keyframe Menu (in the 3d-view/pose mode) a keyframe is created immediately instead of showing the menu. This used to bring up ...

Can I change the color of the last selected face, so that it is the same as the other selected faces? Here, I've selected the left face then the right face. Note the right face is some sort of ...

hello im doing a little project I try to analyse sound from a mic. in the bge. I whant to use numpy pyaudio and audioanalyse. the first two are pretty simple. I have some difficulties trieing to ...

So I just started working with Blender 2.6 and the two books I have don't really discuss how to modify objects other than "here's edit mode..." What I have is two cylinders with one slightly ...

When not happy with the results in an animation the action can be edited again (Tab in NLA-editor). After that the action is displayed with a snowflake indicating that it needs to be freezed again. ...

I have a material that contains several procedural textures. I need to duplicate an object that has that texture applied, and then change one of the texture parameters in the duplicated object without ...

I recently ran a renderfarm on a file with some compositing setup, but I forgot to set the composite output back to the Composite node instead of the Viewer I was temporarily using. Since the node ...

I've been having trouble exporting collada objects from blender, so I stripped everything back and textured a single cube, and exported it. This is a completely trivial model, one cube, with one ...

I have noticed that Blender crashes under certain circumstances. Every time I try to open a separate 3D Window with either Bone or Empty Sphere added to the scene, it just shuts down. Can you ...

I would like to set up a node editor in the way, that the darkest pixel in a grayscale render result is set to black and the offset to the original value is subtracted from all the other pixels. While ...

I saw this tutorial on Blender Nation that deal with creating Minecraft animations in Blender. After following several links, I finally came up with the file and downloaded it. I could edit the ...

When I parent an object to another object with keep_transforms=True The object stays in place as expected, however I noticed that the location attribute of the child did not change. If I zero out the ...

I am kind of new to the whole animation aspect and in fact still in high school. I am trying to make a Minecraft character rig and I want to make some 3D hair. I did not know how to quite make it so ...

With the new website, it seems impossible to find the svn builds. Where can they be obtained now?

Does anyone know how to apply a texture in Cycles that only effects the faces of a mesh that are facing upwards (ie in the global Z direction within an angular tolerance)? This would be very useful ...

Between some keyframes a bar is drawn, when is a bar displayed?

I combined two action strips in the NLA-editor but the forward movement fades in (red curve in the image below) I would prefer to have this linear. Where can I change this behaviour? Action blending ...

Is there a way to make procedural materials like the ones here in Cycles for rocks, sand, landscapes, etc.? Here's an image of what I'm trying to achieve:

How I can do an operation in blender like Autocad's edgesurf? In Autocad, edgesurf creates a mesh between four contiguous edges or curves: Access methods from autocad: Button Ribbon: Mesh Modeling ...

Let say I have blend file called test01.blend, then I want to automatically assign render filepath via python to ...

I created a walk cycle as an action, placed it in the NLA editor and repeated the cycle. For each repetition the character jumps back to the starting position, what are some options to move the ...

Sometimes freestyle renders will have gaps in the lines: Closer up: What causes this and how can I prevent it?

In blender, after I press F12 to render, the view changes. Is there a button or key that I can press to go back to the 3d view?

Is it possible to select all faces of one of these groups in edit mode? I tried my luck with this extension, but i wasn't able to figure out how that works. It just says "No Group" when i select a ...

I read through the conversation on this question: Is there a way to render a single frame using network rendering in cycles. I tried the image stacking method that was suggested and got pretty good ...

I need to export some .blend files into COLLADA. Unfortunately, all polygons are designed double sided. In order to properly use culling within my 3D application, I need all polygons to face outwards. ...

Creating DoF in the compositor is very easy if you have the scene rendered in Blender and the camera depth set right. But what if you rendered a beauty (raw render) and depth pass in another program? ...

I'm doing retopology and find it convenient to turn on xray for the object I am building. However, I now see ngons facing away from me as well. It's hard to navigate. I would also like to set the ...

My problem is converting a path into a bezier, and a bezier back to a Grease Pencil again (or path to Grease Pencil), since I need the handle assistance in Edit mode for those to get my shapes just ...

Regarding my previous question, how to remove background, I wish to do the following: There will be a narration so I will need each object to glow while I talk about them, how can you do this? Please ...

I wish to remove the background of these videos: https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=117AB4E465BB25B0!25610&authkey=!AFwzaPNg8TirZQ8 However, sometimes the camera moves up and other things can ...

When I choose the Subdivide Smooth option in edit mode it looks different from the Subdivision Modifier. Not only is it smaller but also the shape of the one from edit mode seems distorted.

What does the F in front of brush names in the selector stand for? This question may seem a little trivial, but it always made me wonder..

I'm trying to export models from some format (.obj, .3ds, .blend) to ...

What is the easiest way to duplicate an object without it duplicating the animation as well? I thought I could simply change this in the user preferences by unchecking "action" but this doesn't seem ...

How do I toggle in and out of wireframe mode with my keyboard? Is there a hotkey for this? I'm a beginner (obviously). I thought I could find this in the "view" menu, but it either doesn't exist or I ...