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.fbx export why there are no materials or textures?
This is a frequently asked question.
TL;DR
Most file formats just don't support exporting textures, let alone full blown material definitions or other application specific features. Also historically ...
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What image format encodes the fastest, or at least faster? PNG is too slow
TL;DR If you want to work in a scene referred workflow you should use OpenEXR. It's also the quickest to save, especially for large renders. I'd recommend to use it with the ...
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Can Blender render animated gifs?
I created an addon that allows you to render or import animated GIFs with Blender. The addon is called Bligify.
Render GIFs
Import GIFs
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What does the compression setting do to a PNG?
No, the compression slider does not affect the image quality.
PNG uses a lossless compression algorithm called DEFLATE (among some other things), which is the same as is used to produce .zip files.
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How do I get blender to stop creating so many files?
Any file with ".blend" and then a number is a backup file created by blender. This is not related to Save or Save As, which act the same as other program's implementations of them. Every ...
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How do I split a movie file in Blender?
Imho, just seeing how many answers and comments you got, should say something about why more detail are needed :) but, since currently the blender manual seems to be somehow missing examples and more ...
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.fbx export why there are no materials or textures?
When exporting to .fbx, you can't export materials, you'll have the surface color, but not other settings such as glossiness and reflection, for textures, yes you can, but you have to use blender ...
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Can Blender render animated gifs?
You can convert a .png sequence to gif with ImageMagick.
Assuming you've already rendered your animation as a .png sequence, install ImageMagick and open up a terminal, go to your output directory, ...
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Import 3D XML in Blender or convert it with another tool
Import Citygml Model
Textures applied to Zuidplein model.
I've merged all the scripts into 1 for convenience, would envisage splitting them up if made into an addon.
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PNG animation render, saving images without a file type
In the Render panel in Input, check "File extensions"
(They are saved without a file extension, which is not the same as a file type.)
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2.8 & 2.81 - WebM / VP9 Encoding error: Additional information: g_timebase.den out of range
The WebM/VP9 Container and Encoder only worked after I had selected a Dimension preset. Then afterwards readjust the render scale percentage and frame rate.
Does this solution make sense? No. But it ...
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is there a way to automate render file names and avoid accidental overwrites?
The following add-on generates a unique file path from a given directory and the current timestamp. It modifies both the output path (Output Properties > Output) and every base path of File Output ...
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Import 3D XML in Blender or convert it with another tool
io_cityGML_basic
Here's a basic importer of this kind of .xml. I think it's fair to say that xml files can be whatever you want them to be, in this case it is a 3d ...
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How to import a .max model into Blender?
This is an older question, but there don't seem to be any truly satisfactory answers yet. The suggestion to use 3DS Max to export to .obj or ...
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Is there any USDZ exporter for Blender?
You can export to a regular usd file, abc, fbx or obj (...
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Can Blender render animated gifs?
You specified you wanted an in-house solution. As it was stated that's not possible outside of addons that introduce outside elements. You can go the other route though and download the ffmpeg library ...
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How to import a .max model into Blender?
I use max converter to OBJ using this site https://anyconv.com/max-to-obj-converter/
tried several times, for simple 3d model it should work, the conversion sometimes takes a while like 3 minutes or ...
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Can I change the format of an animation while it's rendering?
no, this isn't supported, and likely wont be (does any software do this?).
You may want to render images and encode after.
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Is it possible to save CMYK renders from Blender?
CMYK is a device-dependent color model. This means essentially that if we don't know the device where color will be reproduced, the values expressed in this model are meanlingless, as they aren't ...
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Export from Blender to Maya preserving Materials and Crease
Unfortunately, FBX is the only serious option currently (maybe with Collada, but that format is not much supported/developed nowadays…).
FBX can support edge crease (...
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Import/Export Rhino's 3DM format to/from blender
I have successfully imported a 3dm file into Blender on manjaro linux using following plugin : https://github.com/jesterKing/import_3dm
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Change Default Render Output to JPEG with 98% Quality
Open a new project and change the output format to JPEG 98% quality in the render settings panel:
Then, from the File menu, choose "Save Startup File" (or press CtrlU). That will make your ...
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Script for save camera position, to file
From the text_editor templates > python > operator_file_export.py . Changed the write_some_data function to export matrix_world location of active object.
Just using ...
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Is there a way to bake an array animation?
If the software you want to export it to supports alembic (i know for example that fusion does), you can use this fileformat. It was just added to Blender so it only works in the newest Versions. ...
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How to import ".off" object file using python code
You are under a misapprehension that you can not use the import OFF addon you posted.
Get the name of the operator by mousing over the import menu ...
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How to render voxels?
While there are several file formats used for voxel data, they are used for volumetric data, such as smoke and fluid, which I doubt will help you.
As you have the data in numpy, I would suggest ...
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Does Blender no longer support Make Human file format?
The MHX1 format is extremely old and has been deprecated (in favor of MHX2) for many years. MHX1 should not be used, and no modern version of MakeHuman supports it.
Contrary to MHX1, MHX2 is an add-...
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