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How Can I Unjoin Meshes?

I used Ctrl+J to join meshes, but now I want to take them apart. Is there a simple way?
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How can I make a hexagonal grill?

How would I be able to create a grill of sorts found on the front of some computer cases such as this one
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How are vertex indices determined?

How does the program decide what indices to assign to vertices? If you create a primitive, are the indices generated randomly, or by some base primitive setting? If you extrude new vertices, will they be the next number in sequence? What happens…
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Good approach to make planks for a barrel?

I'm trying to make the planks in a barrel, without involving sculpting. What is a good method? I thought about an array, but haven't had too much luck. this is what I've got at the moment, but I'm trying to get something like this second…
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How to add roughness to a surface using modifiers?

I'm trying to make a roughened parchment-like material. I don't want to just use a texture, because I want to take a low-angle shot that lets me see the actual bumps in the surface. I currently have the parchment represented using a single plane…
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How do I use Proxies in the VSE correctly?

When I choose a 'Proxy Render Size' in the properties panel of the preview window then it seems that this is all I have to do in order to boost up the performance of the preview display for playing video. At least it is visible that the resolution…
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Create an interface which is similar to the material list box

How can I make a Interface which is similar to the Material-Interface within Blender via Python? It should look like these. Could you guide me to the right direction? I don't think it's in bpy.ops, right? Thank you very much!
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How to Create Dust Floating in the Air?

Quite impressed by all of Gleb Alexandrov's scenes with some amazing dust floating around. (To see what I'm talking about > http://www.creativeshrimp.com/lighting-tutorial-atmospheric-effects-dust-book-10.html) And I started working last night on a…
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Import SketchUp ".skp" files

I am new with Blender. I changed to it because now I am using Ubuntu. Previously on Windows I used to work with SketchUp, and I still have many projects, that I would like to import *.skp into Blender to continue modeling and or rendering. Is there…
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How do I reset UI panel zoom level?

I zoomed in / out of one of my UI panels and I can't figure out how to zoom back out/ in to get it normal size. How can I reset the zoom level of UI panels?
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Save all render passes to EXR image?

I am having an issue with EXR file export that I did not encounter in previous versions of Blender. I used to be able to render a render layer with all its passes and get all the passes included with the render layer with the EXR export; the problem…
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How to refresh loaded textures

I am working on a scene, and using CrazyBump to export Displacement and Normal maps; I want to tweak the textures, but currently I need to restart Blender before they update. Is it possible to refresh them, without restarting Blender?
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Shadows along edges of mesh in 3D View

I have recently started using blender and one of the models I'm working on has dark shadows along edges. I started this model from scratch. I can't remember them being there when I first started the model, but I had trouble joining areas together…
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How can I cast artificially darker shadows?

I want to make certain shadows more prominent (using Cycles) without further illuminating the rest of the scene. Example: I have a simple studio with a bowl of fruit and 3-point lighting. The light looks great so I don't want to change it but I…
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Area Light vs. Emissive Polygon

Both an area light and an emissive polygon can be used to create lights. What is the difference between the two?
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