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Convert particle system to animated meshes
I've started trying to make a 3D model that I will end up exporting to an augmented reality app but I've hit a problem in terms of the particle system. The app wants the 3D file in .dae(collada) format which blender allows, but it doesn't seem to…
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how are the math node operations in cycles calculated?
How does the math node do calculations with a specific operation:
the usual operations of add,subtract, multiply and divide are quite understandable and are(empirically) very similar to some of the operations in MixRGB node. But, how do the…
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How do I create a freeze-frame effect with video editing?
I am using Blender 2.76b.
None of these suggestions have worked for me:
Doing a hard cut. I am doing this multiple times to leave a gap, which I want to fill in with the freeze frame
RMB to grab the right arrow, which I want to extend
Press g and…
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How do I parent another object only to a specific bone?
I have hands model which I rigged, now I want the gun to be parented to the left hand, where the problem occurs as left hand is the same object with the right hand, so by parenting the gun to the bone, in the end the gun is parented to both bones,…
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How to easily organise your Blender scene?
When making complex scenes there should be some kind of "folders" (i.e. like in Adobe Photoshop, layer management) in scene outliner, that can group objects together - but this feature seems not present.
Is there some addon or way to manage scene…
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Post-processing Lightsabers in Blender
I've been studying JamesVillanueva's lightsabers for a while now, and have tried to recreate the effects in Blender. The trouble I'm having is with the blade in the compositor. Keep in mind that I'm also trying to animate it.
First off, this is…
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The Boolean modifier is not working
I'm trying to model an M16, but it's not going so well when it comes to the magazine of the weapon.
Next to the magazine is a mesh. I want to cut holes in the mag with that mesh. But the magazine just goes invisible or connects with the mesh when…
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How to curve my mesh
I'd like to curve my object, but I'm considering two options.
The first one is to make the object up with lots of vertices, like a sphere can be. The second is to apply some kind of modifier curve to a straight mesh, as I've understood there is such…
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How to select objects based on materials?
Is it possible to select all objects that have a particular material assigned to them?
E.g. if I have many objects that use the same material and I want to select them for Copy to Selected, how can I do this?
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Need a way to do a "loop cut" on a triangle fan
Need a way to do a loopcut- ish thingy on the blue line
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how to copy drivers to multiple Objects?
I want to copy one driver to all selected objects at once, but the "copy to selected" function copies solely the current value of driver, and not the driver itself.
Is there a possibility to copy also the driver to all selected objects?
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What does static/dynamic BVH do?
In the render properties panel, under the performance rollout there is a setting for static vs. dynamic BVH. I am simply wondering what this setting does.
From the Wiki:
The raytracing acceleration structure used is a bounding volume hierarchy...…
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Which is faster: A math node tree or an OSL shader?
In terms of render times for Cycles materials, which is faster? A material node tree containing many (~20-50) math nodes or a single OSL shader script node performing the same calculation.
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How can I make a plane always look at camera?
How can I make a plane always look at camera? Like in old videogames, like Doom or Wolfenstein, this kind of software used static images that always looked at the camera, is this possible to make on Blender Cycles?
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Need some help baking, "No active image found in material"
I followed the guide here: How do I bake a texture using Cycles bake
I unwrapped my UV, created a new image, created an Image Texture node and selected my new image with that, and hit bake. I then receive the error in the title. Here is a screenshot…
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