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What's a good strategy for designing a room with multiple objects in it?

I'm getting into blender and am at the point now where I can model simple objects and do some rigging without too much trouble. Now I'm trying to figure out the best strategy to model an entire apartment, but am finding it much more difficult than…
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Modeling hexagon pinhole lens for 3D printing

I'm trying to model and 3D print pinhole lenses / glasses but I'm having some trouble creating the hexagon shape with array modifiers. The lens shape I'm trying to get is below. I was thinking of using the array modifiers because it will allow me…
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Depth Pass to Point-cloud (with AN)

How can I translate Depth pass stored in EXR into a colorised point-cloud? (similar to seen in visualisations of deep-data / deep-compositing) Result seen by Camera should be without distortions = each pixel of original image should be represented…
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Can Cycles do a Gooch Shader?

Now that 2.68 has introduced a toon bdsf, is it possible to recreate the Gooch shader? Insight, links, or a nodes screenshot would be great.
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How to create a puffy looking mesh?

I want to create a mesh that looks like this sheep: How could I go about achieving a look like this(I'm talking specifically about the puffy body of the sheep)? I tried using multiple spheres together and using a single sphere and sculpting it…
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Controling compositor by python

I've been looking at the python code loging of Blender. But in there things get loged as mouse clicks. What i like to do is combine a few images into a larger one using compositor, but i need control over compositor by python script. The problem…
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What do various property highlight color overlays mean?

I have downloaded a free model for my current project and spotted those different colors on Scale, Rotation, Location, and other properties. What do these different colors signify? What is the meaning of various possible color overlays on UI…
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How do I get a glowing line via textures or materials?

I've created objects that use the Halo material but it has a vertex glow. How would I make a whole line glow without dividing my surface into an absurdly large number of vertices?
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Tips for making Mesh Rigid-body collision shapes more stable

Using the Mesh option in Properties > Physics > Rigid Body > Rigid Body collisions as the collision shape often makes the simulation unstable (objects jittering, falling through other objects, flying out of the scene, etc.) This still can happen…
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How to use Subsurface Scattering in Principled BSDF

The Subsurface Scattering in Principled BSDF is a bit confusing: Where can I find some material presets? What is the difference between Scattering Color and Radius?
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How to stop Blender from making the CPU overheat?

Apparently my CPU or GPU overheats when Blender renders more than a few minutes. The computer suddenly powers down, taking down all running apps, email I'm writing, etc. This is almost never a problem with still scenes, which finish soon enough,…
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How can I store and retrieve a custom list in a blend file?

I am trying to create a script that will allow me to generate a list and store it in the blend file. The list starts out blank and then strings get added to the list, resulting in: ["test1","test2","test3"] I create a PropertyGroup Class for the…
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How to add keyframes for multiple objects at once

I've got about 200 objects for which I want to insert location/rotation keyframes. Is there a way to add a keyframe for all of the selected objects?
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Can blend files be queued for animation rendering?

I would like to be able to render several files one after the other, when I am not using my computer, e.g. at night. Is there a way of doing this?
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Objects in outliner grayed out

I have been using blender 2.79 and recently downloaded 2.8. I was modelling a scene in blender 2.79 and when opening it up in 2.8 most of my objects are greyed out. Everything is enabled in the viewport, nothing is hidden. One object is still…
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