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How can I organize the outliner with groups?

When I learned the basics of Maya awhile back, they taught us that we could organize and clean the outliner window with groups. Anyway, it doesn't seem that I can hide multiple objects into one grouping in the Outliner in Blender. Is there another…
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How to make foam with bubbles (beer, bath)

My goal is create realistic foam. I mean really realistic foam with bubbles, no only SSS shader and done :-). Use particle system's is not enough, because bubbles overlaps and black artifact's appear. Any ideas? Some reference images and something…
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How is the vector transform node used?

The Vector Transform node has been a bit of a mystery to me. I would presume it would be useful more for procedural textures, but I have no idea how it should be used, or where it might be most useful. Unfortunately, the manual does not have much…
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Clean up vertices/edges with no faces

Is there anyway to cleanup vertices/edges in edit mode? I have been deleting some faces from a mesh but it seems to create a few loose vertices/edges. Update for clarity: So I have a mesh like this: And I delete some parts of it and end up with…
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What are the practical differences between beziers, nurbs and paths?

I know that Beziers, Nurbs curves and Paths have different controls: Bezier handles have control over tangents, and the curve always touches the control point. Nurbs curves don't touch the control points, they just bend towards them. The curve…
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How to zoom out of the backdrop in the compositor?

The Backdrop Image in my compositor is too zoomed in because my image is high res. How can I zoom out?
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How can I generate camera shake?

I would like to generate camera shake in either a render or in BGE. How can I accomplish this?
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Low Poly Water Effect

How would I achieve this low poly water effect using cycles? But the closest I've gotten would be this:
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How will multiple GPUs improve Cycles' rendering performance?

I have an NVIDIA Titan GPU and I'm able to add another card, but I wonder whether Blender will benefit from more than one GPUs? Should I do it as SLI or should I just do it as an added card? I just need some help in understanding how Blender will…
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Using Blender for plotting graphs?

While gnuplot is serviceable and matplotlib is a popular choice for Python developers, I wanted to use Python for plotting some simple graphs (matplotlib had some issues installing on my system, with one of its dependencies). While I could spend…
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Arrange selected vertices in a Circle

How do I arrange selected vertices into a circular formation quickly? The other answers does not have the same title as my question. My question is direct and simple for younger beginner to search for results.
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Emboss text onto curved surface

I am fairly new to blender and I am trying to do something which I am assuming is fairly straight forward with no success. All I'm looking to do is emboss some text onto the curved part of a yogurt pot. Image attached below. What is the quickest and…
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How can I make my gear simulation in the BGE work?

I have the movement and rotation restrained properly, but the simulation is not behaving like it should. both objects are rigid body objects. How can I make my gear simulation work?
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How do I rig a BB-8 robot?

I have made a BB-8 robot from the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, now I want to rig it so the head will stay on top when I move the body. Here is some reference footage of what it looks like moving. How can I create the lag in the head…
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How do I select specific vertices in blender using python script?

I have created a plane and have applied loop cut and slide twice horizontally and once vertically( using python script). With this done, I intend to select the top two corner vertices using python script. The image of the model can be viewed in the…
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