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How to simulate magnetism In Blender?

Is there a way to create magnetism in Blender? Using the physics engine or the game engine, I want to create BuckyBalls (the magnetic toys) within Blender.
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How to roll the viewport?

How do I rotate the viewport around the local (to the view port) - Z axis? Basically what you would get if you were to hit R with the camera selected in camera view.
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How to make UV loft like 3ds Max in Blender using curves?

I am try to make a car Body using the technique like UV loft in 3ds Max. How to apply this technique in Blender using curves or closer to this technique? I have seen this technique in a Blender tutorial, but I forgot about it.
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What is the difference between dissolve and limited dissolve?

On the delete menu with vertices selected, I am presented with two options(among others), dissolve, and limited dissolve. What is the function of each, and when should I use each?
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How do I crop everything in Video Editor?

I have made a video composed of several videos with transitions etc, but they all have a 80px black strip on the top and bottom, and I'd like to remove it (so that the video's height is 160px less). How do I crop the video?
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How can stipple shading be replicated in Blender?

I have had this idea for a little while, using Blender to simulate traditional stipple shading. I have gotten an OK effect using a mix shader with ambient occlusion as a factor to spread a stipple texture in the cracks and crevices of objects. The…
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Pin cloth to model

How do I make pinning follow a model? What object should I select for the hook modifier? In my case the origin does not move. There are only rotations. I am tracing the image series of a running human by Eadweard Muybridge. .
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How to recover overwritten files in blender

I had just finished creating a realistic human head in blender that took me about four hours to make. I then tried to open it in a new file but I accidentally saved over it. Someone please help, I'm really upset about losing all that time and…
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Convert large particle system(s) to one object efficiently

I place leaves on my trees with emitter particle systems. Then, to make a forest, I place those trees with another emitter (or hair) particle system. Problem is particles of particles don't work, I only get the trunks without leaves in my…
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Moving a Linked Library

Is there a way, after a library is linked to move that library to another location? I have a library that is in a different folder than my scene file and for the sake of more easily sending it to a renderfarm I want to move it all into one folder.…
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How to Change the Origin when moving a Collection Instance

I have created an Collection Instance, when I try to move it, the origin(to snap at vertices or edges) is far away from the object, I want to set it. In the image, the Collection Instance is selected, the cross is far away from the object and I…
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How to get world-space matrix of any pose bone?

Is there a command for getting world-space matrix of pose bones, same as obj.matrix_world for objects? I found pose_bone.matrix, but it gives weird result for me.
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python get "image" of 3D view for streaming / realtime EEVEE rendering

[SEE Edit #7 at the bottom for official, final question] I know its possible to take a screenshot with python of a particular window (take screenshots programmatically in bge?), but is there a better way to get an image (in base64 format) of exactly…
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Cycles option to turn off texture tiling?

Update As of 2.76 there is a built-in option to handle this. In Blender Internal there was an option to turn this off (called Clip) Is there a way to do this with Cycles? I know you can just scale your textures up with a transparent background, but…
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How old is Blender?

When was the first Blender version released? I have been an avid user of blender for a few years but I still have not found out how long it has been around. I not only would like to know when it was released but try to run it. If someone could…
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