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How do I use nodes to combine two images when both have transparent areas?
Is there a way to use nodes to combine two images if both the images have transparency (i.e. alpha channels)?
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Why does the water keep escaping in my fluid simulation?
I am trying to do a water simulation. I have a small cup that I have created in blender (as an obstacle) and my water source (just an oval). My domain box is large enough to encompass both the glass and the water source:
Here are my settings for my…
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Why doesn't the boolean modifier work for me?
I want to use the top half of the circle to make a cut but whenever I apply the boolean modifier, the circle just stays there and becomes attached to my other object.
I've managed to make the cut in a standard cube but not sure why it's not working…
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How to make a curtain
In the addon ArchiMesh there is a Japaneses curtain feature, but, it looks straight and does not have the fold that I want in it. Is there an addon that can do this for me? If not, how can I make a curtain (like in the images below)?
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Projecting Texture onto surface from point
I am wanting to know if I can use blender to project a texture (from a plane, UV Sphere, object, etc) to another object in a silhouette style?
I have tried to accomplish this with transforming texture coordinates as the attached image shows. (the…
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How to create a procedural brick texture for a simple building without object size changing the texture size?
I want to create some procedural textures that I can quickly reuse to texture objects. For this example I want four sided cubes (ignore top and bottom) that are wrapped in bricks.
But, I want the bricks across different objects to be the same…
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Is it possible to use bpy.props.PointerProperty to store a pointer to an object?
If the user renames an object, the reference via string key is lost.
Is it possible to store a pointer to an object in a property assigned to a class of bpy.types
I checked
>>> type(obj.bl_rna.properties['parent'])
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How can I create a silhouette using HDR in cycles?
In real life, when taking pictures with a bright background the object you are looking at becomes mostly black. How can I get this effect in Blender?
I would like the monkey to become a silhouette without using any compositor or material…
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Modeling with metric units (cm)
I want to model a cover for my key with exact proportions in centimeters. What tool I should use and how should I do that?
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audio track and video track are not the same length
Given that av sync is on and the correct fps is set, why would the audio track and the video track not be of the same length. When the video file is played in a media player, no such problems occur, but when placed into blender's video editor, the…
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Add a custom curve mapping property for an add-on?
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The title says it all. I want to be able to make this in Blender's UI, and sample it at specific points from an add-on:
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There is very insufficient documentation on this, and I can't find any examples for how to create a…
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How to use the Alt + Right click in edit mode in Linux
I am trying to use the Alt+Right Click to select edge loops in Linux Mint but this shortcut doesn't work it is already used for Linux to reduce a window. I have checked the keyboard shortcut but it doesn't appear.
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Per-Vertex lighting in GLSL?
How can I achieve per-vertex lighting (like in single/multi-texture shading) in GLSL with all of the other GLSL features (like buffer shadows, texture layers, etc.)? Bonus points if it can be done in the viewport.
I could bake the lights to v-cols…
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How to scale the cameras view bounds?
The current issue is that I need more space to the right for my text, but scaling the camera to capture more of the area won't work. Why is this so?
This is what I wish to achieve:
But I am stuck with scaling the camera:
(what is shown in red is…
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How to get silhouette with contour
For an architectural visualization, I would like to use MakeHuman models, but:
Only get them to render white with a black outline (on reflection surface too, if possible).
Interact with light like normal human bodies in the scene (cast shadows,…
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