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How can I get a Depth of field render pass?

How can one make a render pass with black and white data to display depth of field based on the Settings > Camera dof settings? I want to blur or defocus in the compositor, similar to the way it is done with the Z pass but with a more accurate dof…
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Worms crawling under skin

I wanted to create a scene where you can see a worm crawling underneath the skin of a person's belly. I've tried it with the tools provided in Blender like the deform modifiers (mostly I tried with Cast modifier, warp modifier and partially the…
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Texture vs. Material vs. Shader

I'm working my way through a Blender online course. Sometimes the word material is used, other times it is a texture or a shader. I feel like all three of these words, while related, have a difference specific technical meaning. Can someone…
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How do I 'pan' the camera around an axis for an animation?

I want to be able to have the camera rotate around an axis, while still remaining pointed at the center of said axis. The camera should pan around the model in a circular motion with the model always in the center of the view. How do I do this?
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Import STEP file to Blender

I'm trying to import a STEP file to Blender, but it doesn't work! This is how I do: I open the STEP file in Freecad and I select everthing, then I export it as a .stl file, but when I import the file into Blender, I only get parts of the object and…
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How do I copy a property from an active object to selected objects?

I have been using the Copy Attributes add-on to copy some properties from active object to selected objects. This add-on is not enabled by default and must be explicitly enabled. But its a very useful workflow enhancing tool. There is a limitation…
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Randomly populating procedural shape (or Image Texture) in Cycles

How to take a shape or Image Texture and multiply it with random Location, Rotation and Scale along object: Background I have created my first procedural shape on my own from this function: $(x^2 + y^2 - 1)^3 - x^2y^3 = 0$ (big yay for math…
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How to properly denoise renderings?

Since the Denoise feature was added to Blender I only use the default setting with it and it really does the work. But sometimes the denoise is noticable on some of my renders. How can I overcome the blurred effect? Denoising for me is a big help…
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Can you change the render seed for each frame of an animation in cycles?

When Animating using cycles, the noise always looks like it is stuck to the screen, is it possible to change the render seed for each frame?
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How to copy object(s) to another layer

I am building a model for a game and have decided to copy part of it into a separate layer. How do I copy one or more objects to a different layer?
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What's the fastest way to turn a triangular face into three quads?

What's the fastest way to turn a triangular face into three quads?
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Constrain to any 2 axes during transform?

I want to be able to lock my translation/scale operations to two axes at a time, say xy, xz or yz. It currently takes two operations (one for each axis). Example, say for a cylinder, I would like to reduce the radius. I currently have to scale on…
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How to create clear plastic? (Cycles)

I am trying to make a clear plastic material. Here is what I have. I am looking for something more like this. (but darker) Everything I try looks more like glass than plastic. I have tried messing with just the refraction node and with the…
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Custom fresnel curve

When it comes to recreating the shading of metals like chromium with such extreme reflection curves it's obviously inaccurate using one averaged reflectance curve. Also eye-balling the values appears impossible so it becomes relevant creating…
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Shader nodes are missing?

I have blender 2.69 and I've been following a tutorial on how to make text. The only problem is when I go to add a glossy shader in the node editor it does not exist. Neither does the shader category.
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