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Cycles Materials Math node with more than two inputs

Are there any mods that allow Math nodes to accept more than just two inputs? I regularly find myself wanting to, say, get the Maximum value from multiple inputs and end up having to chain multiple Math nodes together. While this does work fine, it…
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Create a wire coil

I want to create this: Note that wire lay chaotically, so spiral object not the same thing. There is a cool way to do this task in 3ds max: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAIrlxPUnqM Basically he deform straight spline/curve and then bend it…
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What is the NLA Editor used for?

I understand how you animate something (say bones location and rotation in an armature). Doing so creates an action; that action can be renamed in the Dope Sheet. In the NLA Editor I can create a NlaTrack from that action, but what is that for? To…
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How to extrude inwards without leaving faces?

Here is the image to explain what i want left box shows how i have set loopcuts (green is the face that i am extruding and moving). Middle one is what i want to get. The right is the issue with blender. the red faces will remain. (i have removed…
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Select multiple faces at once

I have a .STL file and all of the faces have been converted to triangles so there are hundreds of long thin triangles. Is there a effective way to select all of the faces in a small area? Something like a circle and when you click every face under…
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How to know which object is using a material

How to know which object is using a material. I know that a material is used 4 time -> picture under: I'm searching a solution with python and I'm blocked here : bpy.data.materials['Y.000a'].users But this function only return the number of users…
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What is an empty?

In the Shift+A Add menu there is an option to add an "Empty". I have tried adding various types of them but they don't seem to do anything. They have no other Interaction Modes (Edit mode, Weight Paint mode, etc.) and they don't show up in the…
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How can I make a copy of a material?

I want to create a new material based on an existing material. For that a need a copy of the existing material as a starting point. How can I make such a copy?
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Why do normals exist?

I know what normals are, because I took physics. However, I have this question: why do they exist in blender? The only use I've ever had for them is negative side effects. They make my mesh render funny. Why doesn't blender simply treat both…
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Is there a way to assign a custom wireframe color for objects?

I deal with quite a few objects with interesting edges, and it's becoming impossible to see which element belongs to which object, when they all have the same color. Is there a way to set custom wireframe colors?
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Use composite nodes in blender video sequence editor

Can you use composite nodes in blender video sequence editor? As in, no 3d elements in your scene, working exclusively within the video editing screen layout? I am currently using Blender 2.76 RC 3.
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save as a video as .mp4

So I made an intro using animation and it saves it as a .blend and I want it so save as a video like .mp4 or something like that. I've tried changing the codec because I tried opening the intro with windows media instead of blend. I didn't try all…
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Is there a way to make particles behave like rigid body objects?

I want to create a scene that has a lot of irregularly shaped objects piled up on the ground. I don't want the objects to intersect with eachother. I started off by creating a particle system that uses an object group containing these objects. No…
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How can I render an edge only mesh as solid lines?

I have a schematic of a raspberry pi that is completely flat, no solid faces, just connected vertices. Is it possible to render these lines somehow, so that it looks like a 2D drawing? Maybe with freestyle?
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Is it possible to paint only on selected vertices in vertex paint?

I'm trying to add some fake shading to a model in vertex paint mode, but I'm having trouble because some parts of the mesh hide the vertices I'm trying to paint. Ideally, since I'm painting the same colour on all vertices, I'd like to select all the…
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