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Do EEVEE samples have any effect when rendering?

Do EEVEE samples really matter when rendering? Can't really see a difference except for render time
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How to make objects draw transparent/wireframe in the viewport?

I have several objects in my scene. I want all the objects to be visible so that I can see how they relate to one another, but I want to focus on just one. To do this, I'd like to make the other objects translucent and non-selectable. I know I can…
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How to unwrap multiple objects?

I've built my first 3D model using 2.71. It consists of several meshes including cylinders a cube and a plane and I've animated one of the parts. I'm ready to use the UV/Image Editor to export a texture map. I've expanded the 2nd view panel,…
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Weight paint in cycles nodes?

I'm trying to use weights from a vertex group in cycles nodes to change the transparency of the mesh. But as far as I know this is still not supported. Is there any workaround that I could use? This is what I want to achieve: As you can see, I use…
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Voxel data in Cycles

Is Cycles able to render voxel data from an external file? I can create the volumetric effects that I'm interested in by plugging a texture node into volume absorption and volume scatter shaders, then into an add shader. What I'm lacking is being…
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Is it possible to make a modifier with a python addon?

Is it possible to make python addon as a modifier? I just would like to make some deformation modifiers. But I know only python.
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Align an object to a specific face

I usually face this problem when I cut objects to make them printable in my 3D printer. As you may know, you need your object to have a nice base to be printed. So I usually use bisect to cut an object to different pieces. As in this example: and I…
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How to quickly do a clay render?

Sometimes, I find that it is useful to do a Clay Render for my model, where all of the materials render with a single common "clay"-like material (see example image below). In the past, I have done this by: Selecting all of my objects by using the…
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How to model the curly cable part of the phone

Hello. I am a beginner in Blender. I started modeling this phone and when I got to the curly cable part it was a real challenge. Could someone guide me on this.
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Increase or decrease vertices in circle after working with it?

Is it possible to change the resolution of a circle after working with it so that it has a greater or fewer number of vertices? If this is not normally possible, but there is a workflow that keeps it editable, that also counts.
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How to split node connections?

In a tutorial a guy split a line like this: I have try left click and right click but nothing works.
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Archipack window not showing anything

I haven't tried Archipack previously but anyways, after going like this: and when I click on Windows it shows up this black patch in middle of the viewport: I tried Wall and it worked well as it added a wall type mesh, but in this case windows…
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How does anti-aliasing work in cycles?

As far as I understand, cycles anti-aliasing in cycles (per default), works by sampling around a specific arc/vector determined by the camera position/rotation. This explanation and my experience lines up with the answer…
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Scale and Rotate Stopped Working

I am using Blender 2.80 beta. In Object Mode Scaling and Rotating objects stopped working. How do I enable rotating and scaling again? The button that is referenced in Blender 2.7x does not exist in Blender 2.80. The odd thing is if I create a new…
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Emulated Numpad Mapping - Numpad Period?

By trial and error I have found that in Blender v2.7 on a laptop with emulated numpad set, \ represents Numpad / (forward slash). Which key represents Numpad . (period)?
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