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how to use BMesh to add verts, faces, and edges to existing geometry

I've puzzled about this for a while, but haven't found an answer I understood. This snippet below does add geometry (3 verts and a face) but it also generates an error, Does going to object mode make the data reference in bm be cleared? if so, how…
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How could I animate a plane into a pipe and then a pipe into a torus?

I need to create an animation demonstrating UV wrapping. I want a rectangular plane to smoothly roll into a pipe (open-ended cylinder), and then the pipe to bend into a torus. How should I approach it? I know I can use Curve Modifier for both…
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Matcap materials as a material for render?

Is it possible to use Matcap materials as an actual material for a model so that I can render with it? There are certain parts that I want to apply specific Matcaps textures to but I want to actually use them to render and not just for sculpting…
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How do I center the view at the origin without moving the 3D cursor?

The shortcut I have always used to center my view is Shift +C, then Alt + Home. This moves the 3D cursor to the origin, then centers the view on the 3D cursor. However, in some situations, I want to center the view at the origin without affecting…
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How can I add text in a non-english language?

How can I add text with non Latin characters? I'd like to get text in other languages like Arabic, Russin (Cyrilic), Japanese, Chinese, Malayalam among others, but I get rectangles instead of Arabic letters.
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How to flatten a non-planar face to a targeted plane?

Let's take a non-planar quad here for a simple example, how to only move one vertex on it, to finally make it planar while keeping the other three vertices still?
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Can someone explain the layer system?

I am really confused with the different uses of the terms "Layers" and "Passes" in Blender. Can someone please explain how they work in Blender. I know about Render Passes like AO, Diffuse and so on, but there seems to be a confusion with…
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How to create a Nebula in Cycles?

I'm trying to create a Nebula walk through using Blender but my final art is unrealistic. I would like to create a realistic nebula without Image backgrounds... I used particle System and clouds, but the isn't realistic. Any suggestion? Or…
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Rendering with wireframe

I'm making figures to illustrate some details about how meshes work. I'd like to render my scene normally, but overlay all of my meshes in wire mode. The only solution I've found which works is giving a duplicate mesh a wireframe material, which…
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Is it possible to recursively instance object particles?

I have a seed object with some particle hair strands. I've specified this object to be instanced in another particle system, then specified that object to be instanced in yet another particle system. To clarify: I have a cube with hairs…
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Differences between dissolve and delete?

Does dissolve works the same way as the delete operator? And what does dissolve and limited dissolve mean?
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How to create a mesh programmatically, without bmesh?

I do not want to use BMesh this time. I want to create a mesh programmatically, for this purpose I created this short script to see what I do wrong in my importer script. In this script I try to create a tetraeder. First I create the mesh, then…
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Importing OBJ with MTL and Image not working properly

I'm trying to import an OBJ file that has associated MTL and PNG files. There's a similar question here, but the answer is not very helpful, I just see a big blob. These are the files that I'm trying to import. Inside the textured meshes folder…
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Add object constraint to a number of selected objects

I have a large number of objects, and I wish to add a Track to constraint to each object. When I select the group of them and then add the constraint, it is added to only the active object, of course. How can I add the constraint to all selected…
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Multiple smoke flows in one domain, with different colors

So I want to mix smoke with different colors in one domain object, I've found tutorials about that topic with Blender render engine, but not how to do that effect in cycles. I can define the smoke color in the node setup of the domain, but how can i…
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