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Can I (easily) add text to a movie?

In the movie clip editor, I've been able to easily add movies and sound as well as adding special effects using keyframes. That's all great, but I'd like to add some text hovering over the heads of the characters in the film. Up until now, I've…
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How to show to the user a progression in a script?

I'm making an python script which create a lot of object and this could take a lot of time. My question is how to show to the user of my script, the "progression" of the script? For now I print an progress bar in the system console. But you have to…
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Why does Blender use so much memory for large textures?

Using a single 6K texture at only 227kb in size, spikes the memory usage to a crazy 144mb of memory in Blender. It was brought up in this bug report, but closed. Why can image editors (Photoshop/Gimp/Krita) handle such large images but not…
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How can I re-sort the points/indexes of an object in geometry nodes?

I wonder if there is a possibility to re-sort the indexes of a mesh according to a certain criterion? Again and again in Geometry Nodes unfavorable situations arise where the point distribution or their indexes are in irregular order. For example, I…
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Array a Group of objects?

Is it possible to array a group of objects? For example, if I have three objects in a group, (I want to keep them as separate objects) is it possible to easily duplicate them as if I pressed AltD for every single one?
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How to create and animate the water reflection (Caustics) on an object?

What is the best method to create this kind of reflection and how to animate it?
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How to create a gradient texture?

I am wondering how to recreate some kinds of effects (you can easily do in Photoshop) in Blender. I want to create the gradient textures like ones pictured below, should I render objects and blur them in compositor? Or can I achieve it using only…
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How can I add a cube?

I am trying to add cubes to my scene. I'm sure there are lots of ways to get a cube into the scene (but for the purposes of this question, I have no idea what they are) - Are there any ways to add a cube that are easier than using the python console…
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Control Instance Color with Geometry Nodes

I'm excitedly playing with the new Geometry Nodes system, but I've run into a limitation. I would like to control the color of object instances created with the Point Instance node, but I can't seem to find a way to do this. Is it at all…
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Property Panel Custom Popup Menu when user presses hotkey over an input field

is it possible to trigger this kind of menu: in the property panel when I press a hotkey over a button/input field? I want to specifically,when the user presses a specific hotkey when over an input field, call a function that checks if this input…
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How to change hair color along length of strand?

At some point (not right away), I'll be wanting to make a character model which has multicolor hair. Namely, it will be one color closer to the roots, and another color closer to the tips. Is there any way to do this in blender? I would be using…
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How to reverse animate?

For example when I record a rig walking and then I'd like to make it walk backward so how can I do that without much effort
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Can Blender export to the COLLADA format?

Can Blender export to the COLLADA format? I tried going to File → Export, but COLLADA was not an option. I'm using Blender 2.66.1 on Ubuntu 13.04.
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Remove extra geometry from objects

Is there a tool or an easier way to remove unneeded geometry from objects? Mostly when using a "Displace" modifier, on many places there are flat surfaces where there is extra geometry on the mesh, that you would like them to be removed. At first I…
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Zoom in and out without a mouse wheel

I am using blender on a tablet, for those times when I can't plug a mouse into the tablet, I would like to still be able to zoom in and out on the viewport. What ways are there to zoom in and out other than using the mouse wheel? I can't find any…
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