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How to align a cluster of points?
If you have a cluster of points selected like this:
how do you align the points so that they create a flat plane?
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How can I convert an SVG to a mesh?
In Blender, extruding and beveling of SVG imported objects, works very well when they are still bezier objects, but the conversion of a SVG path to a mesh is very ugly, with a lot of unnecessary vertex and edges.
Is there a way to better the…
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Why are the longer edges being beveled more?
I'll preface this by saying I'm very new to Blender - I'm trying to put a bevel on an edge, looks something like this:
As you can see, the vertical side is much longer than the horizontal side. When I apply to bevel to the edge there, the bevel…
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How can I reset my menus?
I accidentally opened too many menus (or windows) and I want to reset them to default. It is really annoying, and effecting my animation. Thanks
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Render not showing UV texture
I have added a texture to a cube in the UV editor and it shows up fine in textured view
But when I render it there is no texture
What have I done wrong?
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How do I convert a triangle mesh to a quads one?
I'm throwing a 3D triangulated mesh into an acoustic simulator. The simulator instructions say that ideally it wants quads. If it receives triangles, it will consider them as a degenerate quad (i.e. A B C -> A B C A)
Is there some automatic method…
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How to rotate source video in Movie Clip Editor - Blender 2.68
After importing my footage in to the Movie Clip Editor, I find that it is not oriented the way I would like.
What is the easiest way to rotate this in Blender?
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Constraint the camera to look at an object
In my scene I have a camera sitting at the origin. I would like to contraint it so that it always looks at the center of a given object. But the camera should not change its position.
I found some answers using a "TrackTo" or "LockedTrack"…
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How to Combine two Normal Maps?
I made a high poly model and then baked its textures onto a low poly model.
Now I want to give another normal map's details to the model. How can this be done?
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How to get perfect UV sphere Mercator projection?
I'm trying to unwrap a UV Sphere and I can't seem to get a perfect Mercator projection. What process should I follow to get a perfect UV unwrap that looks like the black grid lines in this image?:
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Why avoid bpy.ops?
Simple and maybe stupid question:
I was reading this lot of time, that
"you should avoid using bpy.ops, or "instead of bpy.ops, use this and that"...
So why is that? Is that buggy, or what?
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How do texture coordinates work?
How exactly to texture coordinates work? I know they are represented by vectors, but how does a vector store texture mapping information? How does each type of texture coordinates work and what are their respective advantages and disadvantages?
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What's the fastest / most fun way to create a fork in Blender?
Related challenge: What's the fastest and / or craziest way to
model an arrow in Blender?
I tried to make a fork in Blender, but it was so boring I fell asleep.
Is there a faster / more fun way to make a fork?
I'm open to everything: Modifiers,…
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How to merge two edge loops
This is a Q&A so I answer it myself. I searched for an answer to this question for ages and didn't find anything so I'll add this here if anybody else struggles with the same issue.
So, how can I merge two edge loops to one? I do not want to connect…
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What is the difference between the displace socket and a bump map?
Aside from the fact that you can control the bump mapping per shader with a bump node, are there any differences between these materials?
As far as I can tell, they are the same. Is the displacement socket just a convenience thing? Is there a…
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