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How to Hide 3D viewport
Each viewport's display options are independant from each other, so you can use that at your advantage.
First, let's hide every object type we have in a viewport using the View Object Types popover:
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How do I change the frame size
Most of the time the camera's clipping values are generating problems for people because they are wondering why something disappears in their scene. This is a good example where it makes sense to use ...
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All objects are black in the render view port
Enable the Lights collection(on the Eye icon) to see them in the rendered view.
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How do I change the frame size
You can also implement the Dolly Zoom effect to capture more of the scene while your near field plane of the camera is still in the same position. This entails increasing the Field of View (FOV) but ...
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How do I change the frame size
You could make your Wall that is blocking the camera a separate object and then uncheck the "camera" setting in the visibility tab. This way you still get the lighting effects of bounce ...
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Preview Animation?
In the top header menu > View > there's a Viewport Render Animation function, you can switch to camera view, choose the Solid mode if the materials and lightings don't matter, make sure that you'...
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navigate in window without navigating the camera
Is "lock camera to view" enabled? (Right toolbar in 3D viewport > view > view lock)
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How to constrain an image to the viewport camera?
If you really want a fixed background image visible in the 3D Viewport (no matter what it looks like in the rendered image, you can go to the World Properties and - instead of using an Environment ...
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Blender not extruding planes properly
Spotted! :) It does seem that if E face-extrusion finds itself asked to extrude a region whose perimeter is entirely made up of boundary edges, it will leave the original geometry in place. Otherwise, ...
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White Diffuse Color shows as Gray in Diffuse Color Render Pass
The brightness of colors and how they appear in general is dependent on the Color Management settings. By default Blender is set to Filmic which has a higher dynamic range, but what you want to see is ...
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Unable to see anything after importing .obj file
The easiest solution is FIRST checking the Dimensions. Select the object in the Outliner and press N then change the dimension to something below 20m (The cube is 2m) but use the Scale field so it's ...
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Problem with a model when selecting
Another possible solution: have you checked if you accidentally changed the Mode of the Box Selection? By default it is set to Set a new selection, but there are also:
Extend existing selection
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Problem with a model when selecting
Although I know you said there is no object that is doing the overlapping, I want to demonstrate something because I don't know how experienced you are in Blender (sorry, no offense) or at least this ...
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Zoom locked to 3D cursor
I'm using Blender 3.x. Click anywhere in 3D viewport, press N. Docked menu pops out. In the View tab, View Lock section, untick Lock to 3D Cursor.
That should be it. You should now be able to change ...
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Viewport Display Material colour and Principled BSDF base colour
Just three steps really :)
Switch viewport shading color to Object
Add Object Info > Color node into your material
Control color through Properties > Object > Color
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Images imported as planes would only display content in the Display Render Preview
Enabling Import Images as Planes Addon gives us two features. We can import image as a plane, or as an Empty.
Plane won't show you the texture in Solid Shading Mode, while Empty will. The fastest way ...
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Quick effects smoke simulation not rendering in viewport together with other animations
I found that there is unfortunately no way to preview quick smoke simulation in the viewport when there are other simulations. The only way is to use mp4 animation previews.
The issue with the smoke ...
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Lights working only in render and not in viewport
You are currently in Local View mode. Since a while, Blender also respects which of your lights are in local view, and skips the others.
Press the / key on your ...
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Z button does not show Toggle Overlay
You need to enable Extra Shading Pie Menu Items under the Edit > Preferences > Keymap tab
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Precision transform (holding shift) is not working at all
I found the problem. Hidden away at the bottom of the key mapping list is the "Transform Modal Map" category. If you add a new binding to that category, "Precision mode" is an ...
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Cycles render is blank in viewport render for previews
You have paused your render preview.
Simply resume it to view it again.
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Edge highlight length of selected vertex
You've enabled the 'On Cage' option in Subdivision Modifier.
This shows the mesh with more vertices, which makes the gradient shorter.
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Can't turn off Wireframe in Viewport all modes (It's a bug?)
Select the object and click button. Then go into viewport display and uncheck wireframe.
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How do I get all of the editting abilities back?
It looks like you've pressed CtrlSpacebar to have the full screen mode, press CtrlSpacebar again.
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