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How to animate a tesseract

Tesseract, an interesting analog of a hypercube type. How to animate it like this?
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How to render as only wireframe in Cycles?

I need to know how to render a object on Blender Cycles but only as a wireframe, for example, like this: Also, it is possible to vary between the smooth wireframe object and the polygonal wireframe object? Thanks in regard.
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Stadium Seating Letters

I'm trying to add letters to stadium seating, to make a custom version of the title sequence of Ted Lasso. I modeled a simple version of a seating block, but now I have to add the letters to it, and I'm wondering what the best method would be to do…
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Cyclic orbit animation

I'm trying to make one object orbit another. But I want it to repeat, rather than stop at 100 frames. It seems there is no option for this. Is there a way to make this happen?
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Is there any way to measure angle between edges/faces, or change the angle so that the mesh changes according to the angle we input?

These features are available in some CAD software packages. I haven't come across these features in Blender. Are they available as built-in features or add-ons? I want to be able to build a model, return later on and edit an Edge or a Face such that…
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Undo cursor move?

How can I undo when I move the cursor, Ctrl-Z doesn't work? I would prefer a keyboard shortcut, but any method will do, although I'd like to avoid scripts if possible.
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How to create a bent spring?

I found and followed a tutorial from youtube to create a spring but I found that it can't bend. I want to create a jack in the box so I want the crown to be able to hang down to scare someone. The model doesn't have pose mode and I can't use bones…
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How to animate A curve segment?

How can I animate the position of a Bézier curve segment as shown in the images below?
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Considerations for using .blend files between operating systems

I'm creating a (fully packed) .blend file that contains textures, cycles materials, UV maps, multiple scenes, rigging, and fluid simulations. The OS I am working on to create it is Windows. However, I must send this file to Blender (same version,…
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How to assign a specific weight to vertices? (instead of painting it)

I was wondering that in the weight painting mode, how can I set a specific weight for a certain group of vertices instead of painting it over them?
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How to save the render result within Blender

Is it possible to render an image and have blender remember it, so that next time I open the file the render result will not be blank? I am not talking about saving to an external file. Specifically I would like to render an image, close blender,…
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Piping cream through a piping tip

I would like to simulate piping of a cream through a piping tip. I modeled the piping tip as you can see. I added a soft body to the cylinder, and then I set the piping to collision. But for some reason it doesn't go through instead it stops…
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How to make a realistic snow material in Cycles?

I have looked at many snow shaders, but haven't yet come up with one that looks good. I have many examples of not so good looking snow that I have tried to make. I have looked at these materials: Youtube tutorial thread on blender artists about the…
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Objects disappear when looking through camera

When I go to camera perspective, there are parts of my object that I can't see. I tried adding and deleting my camera a lot of times and positioning it so that the objects I would like to see on my camera view will be seen but to no avail, I still…
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Can I use Cycles materials with Blender Internal?

Is it possible to have a mesh coloured and textured in cycles and then have it displayed in internal? The only reason I ask is because I am building a log cabin and want to put some windows in. When I have done glass in cycles (Nodes) it looks much…
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