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Low FPS on Animation Playback
I have a question about animation "best practices": If I want to render my animation at 24 fps, does that mean I also need my animation preview/playback window to run at 24 fps?
Some details: I've created 15 second walk-cycle scene that I want to…
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How to join objects with Python?
I try to do this:
bpy.ops.object.select_all()
bpy.ops.object.join()
in my script. It selects all the stuff like CtrlA but fails on join() (CtrlJ) with the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1,
in File…
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How do you bake ambient occlusion for a model?
I have a model and I need to bake ambient occlusion for it. How do I bake an AO texture?
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Braided hose modeling
HoW could I make braided hose like this, I know I have to use array but I have troubles making piece that should be arrayed.
Here is higher res but I don't need those single threads to be show but just single like in image above.
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Which modules are guaranteed to be present in Blender's Python?
Which modules are guaranteed to be included in Blender's custom Python build?
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How to make a procedural white birch bark material in cycles?
How can I proceduraly create the dark lines as seen in white birch (paper birch) bark?
This is the exact type of effect I'm trying to replicate. Random sized "lines" in the bark, yet they all run the same direction.
You can see in this picture,…
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The easiest way to move an object to 3D cursor
What's the easiest way to move an object to the 3D cursor? The easiest way I know of is copying and pasting the coordinates in the right menu of the viewport. Is there an easier way to do it?
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How to open a .glb or .gltf file in blender?
My question is about opening .glb or .gltf files in Blender. I don't see these extensions in the Import options, although Export allows me to create files with either of those extensions.
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Rendering smoke in Cycles?
I am trying to render smoke in cycles, but the relevant blender manual page is designed for Bender Internal. I have everything set up except for the material.
I imagine you would set up the material nodes something like this:
But the problem is…
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Model as multiple unique thin sheets
I am looking for the best way to make a model comprised of many thin layers, each with their own unique shape and editability, such as this:
Would it be best to model the object first then divide down into layers? Or to avoid having thousands of…
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How can I join the geometry of intersecting faces/planes and then remove parts?
As a small example, I have two intersecting faces, both part of a larger object. Without destroying the textures, I'd like to connect them (so they share vertices) where they intersect. That way I can create edges and delete whatever sections I wish…
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How to check if two meshes intersect in python?
I need to check if two meshes intersect or not. At the moment I have some python code to find intersections of world axes aligned bounding boxes, next step would be to implement check for mesh intersection for objects with intersecting bounding…
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Distance from the surface as an input node for use with volumetric materials
I would like to create a material that has a volumetric component whose local Density depends on the depth of each volume point below the surface.
Can the information "how deep below the surface is a given point" (i.e. the intensity of red color in…
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How to vary the thickness of a Bezier curve?
I have made a bezier tube and I want some parts of it to be large and others to be small.
When I try to set the depth for one of its vertices, it just changes the depth for the whole object. Is there a way to change the depth for separate parts of…
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How to get Python multiprocessing module working on windows?
I am trying to run a script within Blender that utilizes multiprocessing module.
According to documentation it is possible to use it ( see note at the end of "Strange errors using ‘threading’ module" ).
Pythons threads only allow co-currency and…
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