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What is Ambient Occlusion?

What is Ambient Occlusion and what are some of it's uses? I see it is used in creating what might be called "shadow catchers" in the following node tree setup:
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How to make VSE render faster?

I'm putting together a video from the VSE. In the sequencer window it is rendering and scrubbing at near realtime yet during output it is taking around 3x longer. The frames are taking 0.13 seconds each whilst the CPU is only utilised around 20%. I…
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Animate winding a ribbon/rope/cable around a cylinder?

Actually, it's not so simple as the title suggests... :) I might be asked to animate something like this - https://youtu.be/1A3vaJaNDLY?t=132 Here's a still from that video: It's the process of doing helical wrapping of carbon fiber a ribbon around…
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Merge multiple meshes into one single mesh?

Is there any addon that will allow me to merge multiple different meshes into one solid mesh? I've spent a great deal of time constructing a fancy window frame, but I made it out of multiple individual meshes.
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Physics are not simulated past a certain frame?

I've set up the physics of a swinging wrecking ball and set the animation to run for 240 frames. This was not long enough for the entire "swing" of the ball-and-chain. I'm unable to reset the timeline, but I can set the end frame to (say) 1000…
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How to understand the math behind Andrew Price's embedding his beer within his glass

I just watched the Blender Guru video How to Make a Beer in Blender and stopped at the point where it advises us to make the liquid slightly larger in diameter than the inner diameter of the glass - approximately half way between the inner and outer…
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Error: modifier cannot be applied on multi-user data

I couldn't apply a Boolean Modifier to duplicate linked object and object array. I got this message in both case: modifier cannot be applied on multi-user data Why couldn't I apply the Boolean Modifier, and what do I have to do so that I can apply…
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Do .blend files store information on which version of Blender they were created in?

I'd like to know if a .blend file contains information about the version of Blender it was saved from. I have couple of old files and I'd like to open them in version of blender they were originally created in.
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How to model the bottle threads?

The picture show the threads I want to create on the highlighted object. Problem is I don't know how and tutorials really haven't helped much as most of them seem to be about creating a bolt. So I was hoping I could get some help on how to do this…
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How to create piles of snow on a mesh?

For example on tree branches like this: Image from Wikimedia commons
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How can I make a more realistic glass shader?

Here's a sample scene: A room with a window, a point light to project light into the room, an HDR environment outside the room and a nice Image by Rembrandt that should be somewhat reflected on the glass: Using a standard glass shader on the…
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How can I delete a UV unwrapping to start again?

I unwrapped everything automatically and it endend up being really bad for painting. How can I delete the unwrapping and start again?
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Stars background in cycles

I'm trying to make a short animation in space and I need stars as my background. I found this nice tutorial, unfortunately it was made in blender render and doesn't work in cycles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb4ryQMvRi4 Can someone tell me how…
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Creating a single vertex on the cursor position

How do I create a single vertex (not connected to another vertex) on the cursor position?
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What do glossy distribution models do?

In Cycles, the glossy (and anisotropic) shaders have a Distribution option. Since I don't really know the difference, I have always left it at it's default (GGX). So what is a distribution model, what's the difference between them, and how do I…
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