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Selection Error
Ever since 2.8 was officially released, ive had a problem whenever i select something that isnt a mesh object (cameras, bones, curves, metaballs, text, etc) i get an error message that pops up. as far ...
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Sculpting Performance Workflow
I'm new to Blender and using it to sculpt a character. I have been using Dyntopo for the majority of the mesh up to the point where i got to maybe 1 mio vertices, where I have started to subdivide the ...
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from photo to 3d image
my question is, can you take a single photo en convert it to grayscale relief or 3d? for example i have a photo off my kids and i want to create a file so i can get a sort of 3d effect that i can ...
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Array Modifier Causing Objects To Become Hollow in Blender 2.8
I am new to blender and trying to model out this grid object, then trying to cut a bevel into the side with a boolean modifier. The problem I'm having (which I cannot find an answer to anywhere online)...
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Curve vs. Mesh modeling
I am working on a tree-like structure that could be created by either a mesh object or a series of bezier curves. Assuming that I can create the object either way, what are the pros and cons of ...
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How can I find a mesh's position when affected by a constraint?
So basically, I have a mesh that is moving via a constraint. However, because it is a constraint movement, I can't find the position of the mesh. So, is there any way I can find the current position ...
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Having trouble 'throwing' rigid bodies with velocity
I'm trying to throw a sphere with a horizontal velocity in a similar way as in this video https://youtu.be/TFseMPGRz1Q.
I have the initial location keyframed on frame 1 and the new location keyframed ...
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My mesh looks fine in Blender, but is messed up in Unity Game
I created a mesh that looks correctly in Blender but when I import it to Unity it looks really bad.
Specifically, the mesh is a walking character (with rig and animation), which has some clothes on (...
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How can I set a parent of an object in the BGE using python?
I have two objects
A a box
and
B a sphere.
I want to make B A's child.
how can this be done in the BGE, using python?
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How to make emitted particles disappear when they hit a surface?
I'm wondering, how to make emitted particles disappear when they hit a surface? Is it even possible? The Boolean modifier (Difference mode) doesn't seem to work...
My question came after watching a (...
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What's the meaning of the colored edge? [duplicate]
I've made a classroom scene in 3dmax and exported it(*.fbx) to import in Blender.
After importing it, when I edit it I found that there are two kinds of edges.
Picture's here.
What's the meaning ...
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Keyboard and Mouse not working in Blender
I recently opened the first build of 2.8 for Blender and for some reason none of the keyboard keys work, nor the mouse. I can click all the side menus and different buttons but hitting hotkeys does ...
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Tool already edits when using shortcut keys
I'm sure this must have been thought out, but I find this behaviour really off-putting...so, let's use bevel as an example. In the supplied gif, I am first activating the bevel tool using the ctrl+B ...
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Something's wrong with the UV map
The UV is not Unwrapping into perfect circles. Nothing but mere twists and turns and distort. Can you help me?
SOLVED: I figured out what I did wrong. I used cylinders instead of circle. No wonder ...
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How can I set the number of samples per View Layer?
In 2.79 I used to create several Render Layers in order to optimize rendering time. I sometimes use a sphere with an emission shader to simulate the sky. It doesn't require many samples to be rendered ...
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How can i create a realistic water material with foam in cycles for a water simulation
So i made a water simulation in blender and applied a simple water material with a glass shader ior 1.33 and roughness 0.1 However it doesent look really good and I would like it to have some foam on ...
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Face that doesn't exist is being rendered
I'm not sure if this is the right place to be posting .blend files and asking people to help figure out problems with it, let me know if it's not allowed.
I am making this fire extinguisher, and I ...
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blender 2.80 linux executable crashing
I downloaded fresh Blender 2.80 for Linux64, but it is crashing on my Debian Linux (with Nvidia card), see below. Any help, please ?
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Is there any way to augment the previous render? [duplicate]
I rendered my scene with 1000 samples and it is still looking grainy. I would like to pass another 1000 samples on top of this render result. When I start a new render Blender starts rendering the new ...
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How to reset the GUI - without using the menu...?
Picture says all... The GUI is extremely small - how can I reset it??
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Weight Painting in 2.80 in edit mode
I jumped from 2.7 to to 2.80 and I am having trouble with the new weight painting workflow. What I would like to do, is to weightpaint specific vertices and faces in edit mode while seing the color ...
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How do I disable the coloured lighting in the viewport in 2.8? [duplicate]
When shaded in Look Dev mode, there's a kind of coloured lighting so the darker faces are yellow and the lighter faces are blue. Is there a way of disabling this so the shading is more greyscale like ...
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2.8 msi install error 2753 [closed]
Tried to install 2.8 from .msi but I am getting an error 2753.
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Activating 2 or more bone layers at the same time with one button
We can make a button toggle a bone layer( but possibly other types of layers such as protected layers) with code like this:
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How to script a gizmo that would be transformable(move, rotate, scale) independantly from the object it would originate at?
I am looking at the documentation and the gizmo samples that come with Blender(Text Editor's Templates>Python>Gizmo...)
but I am currently struggling a bit trying to understand how this new gizmo ...
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Is it possible to make reflections in (UP)BGE?
I'm working on a game and would like to know is it possible to make a reflective surface for stuff like mirror and high rise windows (via textures).
The image is from LEGO: Marvel Superheroes how to ...
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How can I use vector displacement like this streamer?
When I see Youtube video, the streamer's displacement material rises highly enough.
But when I try same thing, my displacement material do not rise like his.
Below my work
How can I raise brick ...
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Why do I have a strange kink at the edges of the tiles?
I'm using Blender Render, a 90° FOV Camera. My Tiles are 512x512.
But when rendering, there is something strange happening at the edges of the tiles. Does anybody know something about it?
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How can I constrain a bone to follow another bone from the same armature?
here's my question, simply and straight:
How can I make a bone follow (location and rotation) another bone from the same armature? Imagine a character with hand resting over the hip, I need to move ...
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Why blender is not registering its website on brave rewards?
I was trying to send blender some fund but my brave browser said that blender website is not registered for brave rewards.
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Blender 2.80 system Req + GPU req
Can someone please let me know the minimum system requirements and GPU requirement to run blender 2.80 and eevee smoothly?
Also please let me know the optimum system requirements for the purpose of
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Circle on Edge with bevel modifier
How do I get this to work properly with bevel edge modifier after I extrude the circle upwards it "kinks" in that area. I tried to quad that area but it doesn't really want to work as I intend it. I ...
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How can I follow through?
How can I follow the path? or the model should be through away. I tried follow track constraint and follow curve modifier also. None of them working. Curve modifier is not working because it is rigged....
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RX580 not supported in Blender 2.8
I have a Windows PC with RX580. Just installed 2.8 yesterday. Eeviee seems to be working perfectly, while Cycles can render only on CPU. In the Preferences the CUDA tab says that no supported GPUs are ...
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How to loop an animation in Animation Nodes?
I would like to loop an animation such that the final frame becomes the same as the initial frame. For instance, I would like to loop the following animation:
If repeat time rate of 45 frame, ...
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What's the use of tool, 'Sort Elements'?
Because I'm not good at English, no matter how hard I read Blender manual, I don't understand the precise meaning of the tool, 'sort elements'.
What's that tool?
There's no tutorial about that ...
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Blender 2.8, missing keymap settings
after installation of blender 2.8 I cannot click on anything in the 3D view and the outliner tree structure. Besides all shortkeys are not working at all.
In the Settings of blender 2.8, the whole ...
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Does Blender2.8 havea Zbrush-style cursor for sculpting?
I mean that cursor of ZBRUSH thats projecting on the mesh .
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How to separate hollow cylinder into rectangular cubes
I have a hollow cylinder shown below. How do I cut them into rectangular pieces? I tried the seprate by loose parts but it doesn't work since all objects are in a single mesh.
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Baked Normal Map Not Appearing on Mesh
I've been continuing that Blender Anvil Modeling tutorial, and I've gotten stuck on the part in which I'm supposed to bake a normal.
I sculpted, and created a high-poly model, and then tried to bake ...
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2D Animated Face, Is posible to drive the x-uv offset on Blender
So I wanted for a lot of time to do a model with an animated texture by face for a game and I stumbled with this video:
2D Eyes Maya to UE4
On it, they achieved the thing I'm searching for in Maya, ...
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Blender Hair Simulation is making a Wall
In Blender 2.8, I made a grassy area and used hair simulation to create the grass. The only problem is that it seems to have created a wall on the edge of the plane. I have also noticed that as I ...
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2.8 What happened with the Edge Loops?
The Edge Loops selection function used to be in the Edge menu (ctrl + E) but now it's gone, and I guess can only be accessed from the bottom (now top) bar > Select > Select Loops > Edge loops.
This ...
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Removing distant vertices/keeping close vertices
I have a very large map of vertices imported into blender
I want to keep the areas where there are many vertices close together but remove all the random dots here and there. I couldn't find any ...
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Bone Parenting and Constraints
I set up a spline IK for a tail rig and set up control points as well.
The only problem I have is that when I set the Child_of constraint to the control point in order to get a smooth flow, the ...
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Another world inside of a portal issues
As the titles says I'm having issues creating a portal that has another world in it. I tried the following guide to the letter:
Creating the Minecraft End Portal in Blender
but it isn't working. I was ...
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MixRGB vs Math for greyscale
I'm currently using Blender 2.8, but this applies to 2.79 too.
In the shader graph when using scalar/greyscale values is there any difference between using the Math node and MixRGB for the operators ...
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How to change position of rigged bones using python in pose mode?
I am new to Blender and I have been trying to execute this following code which is supposed to change the position of currently selected Pose bone (rigged) in pose mode :
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Python scripting: How to hide from viewport all child objects linked through parent
Update:
Let me ask a slightly different way, since I may be over-complicating things.
If working from the UI there's an option to do this:
You can Shift-Click to hide parent and children objects. ...
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I can't understand Inverse Kinematics
So I am relatively new to Blender, and while figuring out the process that is rigging, and applying Inverse Kinematics to my armature, I came into contact with a weird problem, Normally, inverse ...
