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Water leaks through obstacle
Every time I try to hold water with a obstacle, it leaks out. Here is one example I have made.
The shape has no holes, and the water is partially contained but slowly leaks out. This has occurred every time I have tried this. What could the cause…
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How to create a gradient backround in the compositor?
I want to add a gradient background to my render, but within the compositor (not with the actual background world setting of the scene). I would also like to don't have to use an image (neither external nor internal) to achieve that.
I rendered my…
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How to switch rendering engine via python script
I managed to compile Blender as a Python import module. When I do bpy.ops.render.render(write_still=True) it renders with cycles. How can I render by using Blender internal renderer instead?
ikel
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How to automatically fit the camera to objects in the view?
I'm using blender to render avatar and avatar accessories on a website, however there is a problem, when a hat, or accessory is made a bit large, the it doesn't fit in the viewport, is there anyway to make the viewport expand or move backwards to…
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How to create a visible material that does not emit or reflect light?
I need to make a plane in the background that is independent of any lighting in the scene. This means that it does not emit light, and it does not reflect light, but it is visible. It is so I can create a green screen.
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How do I Inset a face equally?
How can I inset/extrude a face, so that the outer faces have the same width?
Any kind of help is appreciated
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What does abbreviations like DEF, MCH, CTRL, WGT stands for in rigging?
I often download the .blend files with the rigged characters. There are some abbreviations like DEF, MCH, CTRL, WGT in front of the bone's names (like e.g. MCH-counter_spin). I guess what all of them stand for, but is there any rigging expert here,…
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Create threaded drill bit from cone
I'm trying to create something like this.
This is what I've gotten so far. It's not what I want it to be.
How can I create the shape like in picture 1?
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How to create submenus with dynamic content?
I am trying to loop over all the cameras in my scene to populate a menu, and be able to access properties of each camera from the submenu of each menu item. For the minute, I'm just trying to get it to work with one property, the focal length:
I am…
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How to run an external command, showing its progress without locking Blender? (Escape to cancel for eg)
Currently if you run an external process from Python the command and locks Blender until it finishes, eg:subprocess.check_output(["sleep", "2"]).
Whats the best way to wrap an external call in way that the user can see whats happening, and can…
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How to get Blender's version number from Python?
How do I go about programmatically getting the Blender version number?
Example: If I am running Blender 2.76, how would I get the version number from the python console?
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Duplicating a mesh object
I would like to duplicate a mesh object, but on a particular object. Right now this is working:
import bpy
for i in range (0,5):
bpy.ops.object.duplicate(linked=0,mode='TRANSLATION')
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Video editing. Audio and Video strip have different length
When I import a video in blender, I get audio and video on two separate channels.
And beside the name displayed on the channel I get some number:
video name: path | number I am talking about
The numbers in both the audio and video channel, do they…
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Making the "ruler" go along a perfectly straight line?
I am trying to figure out how I can use the Ruler in Blender as a straight line. What I mean, is that every time I use the ruler, I can never make it a perfectly straight line. The picture below shows:
Is there any way to make the ruler go along a…
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How do I straighten UV maps?
How can I straighten ALL the vertical UV lines at once? Is there a hot keyshort cut? Or if I have to do them one by one .. is there at shortcut for that? Thank you!
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