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How to remotely run a Python script in an existing Blender instance?
I don't want to use /Application.../blender -P my_script.py but I want to tell a running Blender process to execute a script.
Is there an existing method to tell a running Blender process to execute a python script?
For example using…
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How to convert Quaternions keyframes to Euler ones in several Actions?
I created a character for a game. It has IK legs. I animated its foot and didn't realize that they were Quaterinon. I made lot of actions with it.
Now... as I will make more actions with this character, I would like to convert every Action with its…
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How do you get an object's position and rotation through script?
I'm working on a project that requires me to get some of the position and rotation values to give to an Arduino via pyserial, but after sifting through the Blender documentation I can't find how to get them through script.
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What is the fastest and easiest way to add a vignette in the compositer for Cycles?
Poking around to find an easy vignette effect, I constantly run into seemingly unnecessary node setups. Six or seven nodes to add a vignette? An apparently really simple effect, this seems a bit much.
For simplicity, it just has to be circular (or…
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How to export an edited clip into a video file in the VSE?
I am in the video sequence editor, cut out fragments, combined the remaining into one whole new clip and do not know how to procede from here on in order to obtain a video file (h264, mpeg4).
I tried to click the animation button and all I got was…
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Blender Sequencer speed is Extremely slow
I have a video (720p) that is 37 minutes long, with a bitrate of ~3000kb/s.
This video is a game recording, so 37 minutes worth of this footage was written in 37 minutes, while other extremely CPU, GPU and hard-drive intensive operations were…
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How to apply transformations directly on mesh data?
I need to load some COLLADA files into a program that does not support any transformations (because it does not support scaling). I want to export these objects from a .blend file.
Is there a way to apply the transformations directly on the mesh…
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Can not delete actions in action editor even with Shift + x
I can't delete any of these actions. I did do Shift + X but they just keeps showing up. There's no O next to them:
Here's blend file:
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How do I remove weight from weight painting?
I am trying to remove some weight. I left click to add it, but I cannot figure out how to remove it.
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How could I create a 3 Dimensional scribble or doodle?
I am trying to create a scribble drawing but make it spherical as if the pencil or pen lines are twisted within. I have tried to extrude planes and uv map a texture to those planes and unfortunately I lose dimension when planes are parallel to the…
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Setting objects into edit mode often seems to fail in python script
I am only just starting to learn/use python in blender. I have the following script
import bpy
for obj in bpy.data.objects:
if obj.name[0:4] == "Text" and obj.type == "MESH":
bpy.context.scene.objects.active = obj
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How can I "zero" an object's orientation in blender?
So I want to change the reference "zero" orientation [with respect to the global coordinate system] of a body in blender. In other words, when a body's rotation is set to zero (0 deg, 0 deg, 0 deg), the body's axis is oriented in a certain…
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How do you import a Compositing Node Set-up?
I have a Compositing node set-up for a lomography effect that I want to export or append to other blend files. Is there a way to do this?
I tried grouping the nodes, but the group wasn't appearing anywhere when I tried to append them in. (Node…
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How do you make an xray material (or similar)
I's there a way to make a material such that when viewed through another object it appears differently?
Example:
object 1 is a black sphere
Object 2 is a glass plane
When viewing the black sphere through the glass pane the sphere becomes…
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How to place a .png texture with transparency over a material
I am trying to create a low poly face with a face from a .png file. The issue is I already have material placed for hair and skin, as shown in the picture below.
I have created a .png file with a face which I would like to overlay over the skin…
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