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How to lock the view to prevent rotation of the view camera?

I was wondering if it was possible to lock the view (similar to quad view), so that the view doesn't change if I accidentally bump the middle mouse button. Is there a setting I can change or a script that can do this?
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Rendered image looks pixelated

When I hit F12 to render an image and zoom in it is quickly pixelated. How can I render a higher res display? I have looked through the settings and couldn't find a solution.
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How to copy/paste X, Y, Z coordinates in one step

Is there a way to copy and paste all 3 coordinates from the Properties (N) menu in 3d view? I can do it one at a time, but not all 3 at the same time.
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Cycles hybrid rendering

The Cycles render engine can render both on the CPU and the GPU. I often render over-night so I do not need my computer to be responsive. Is it possible to render with Cycles using both the CPU and GPU? If not, are there any other workarounds that…
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Black artifacts when looking through many transparent objects?

Using v2.73, cycles and a very simple scene: an array of cubes, no big deal. If I set the shader's material to transparent, the cubes in the foreground do become transparent but those far away in the back do not disappear completely and this…
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Convert Cycles Hair Particle System to Mesh Object

I'm hoping this community can help me solve a issue. I have created a cycles hair particle system to render grass. This is successful in rendering and works great. However I want to convert this particle system into a whole mesh (A patch of grass)…
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How to show render-stamp for arbitrary values?

Is it possible to take arbitrary properties and display them in the render stamp as some other software do. (Click the image for larger version)
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How can I keep low resolution textures pixelated?

I have a problem. I am going to make a minecraft animation in blender. But when I put a minecraft texture on a 3d cube that is 16x16x16 it is very low resolution is there a way to get the texture in a better resolution or is there a way to make…
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How can I subdivide this plane into even squares?

I have a plane that has a scale of x: 100, y: 5, z: 1, and I want to split it into squares that have a scale of x: 5, z: 5, but when I do subdivide, I get a result like this: When in reality, I'd rather have something like this: How can I do…
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How to visualize a value resulted from math node?

How to visualize a value resulted from math node,or just to know it. I tried the way of scaling this value to the scene size and then pick the color and get the value but I want more effective way to do this.
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Where is the startup file stored?

I need to reinstall Blender but I want to backup my startup file first. Where is this data stored?
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Is there a way to switch the mesh selection mode by a shortcut?

Is there a shortcut for switching between these three modes?
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What's Wrong with Quaternion Rotation in the Game Engine?

Steps: I created two identical objects, and animated them to rotate 360 degrees. I used euler for the first object and quaternion for the second. In the Viewport they rotate the same, but in the Game engine the second object is rotated…
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How to scale along the local axis of an object?

I have an object which is rotated and not parallel to any axis. The picture shows how it looks if I scale four vertices along the y-axis. How can I extend the vertices along the local axis of the object?
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How To Reduce Noise In Cycles Render

So this is my first try with cycles and I was wondering what can I do to make the image clearer?
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