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Why does Cycles sampling give diminishing returns?

This may seem like a obvious/basic question, but I am still curious, and I don't know the answer. There will obviously be a big difference between an image rendered with a single sample and one rendered with 500 samples, but there will be a smaller…
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Perfect chain generator

So Generate chain using GN is simple, right? Resample curve, instance torus aligned with tangent vector and rotate every odd instance 90deg. So easy. If you have a smooth curve, it looks ok. But things goes uncanny, then curve is... too…
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Is there a way to update Blender without deleting it and downloading the new version?

I like to stay up with the latest version of Blender. I use Blender on my Macbook Pro and it is kind of a pain to update Blender because you have to delete it and then re-download it. This isn't a huge deal but is there a way that you can just…
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How to create a Folder/File Dialog?

So I need to allow the user of my script to choose a directory that contains images, and then run my script on each image. I already have my script made here. I looked at this question already, but that is about exporting, not importing. It should…
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What is vertex and edge shading?

I know how shading works with faces: That's set by choosing Smooth/Flat under Faces in the Shading menu: But what do the other two options—Edges and Vertices—do?
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What's the fastest/most fun/craziest way to make a flowerpot in Blender?

How would anyone deal with making a flowerpot, as it's useful while making interiors? You can use anything, but there are some limitations and rules: No externally installed addons/plugins are allowed till the fifth answer to this question It…
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How can I emulate old photo cracks and creases procedurally?

This is the reference photo I've been using, and after a few attempts at it myself I wasn't able to get anything I was happy with. Essentially I want to be able to add an image into the Shader node network (or Compositor), change the seed, and have…
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How to merge overlapping edges into one?

I have two overlapping vertices. I want to merge these two vertices into one. How can I do this automatically? I have a large model with a lot of overlapping edges like these. It will be also very useful that I could merge vertices with parallel…
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Motion blur on texture

Is it possible to have motion blur on moving texture via variable mapping location coordinates ? I am using cycles. I am trying to have ground animated with motion blur, but don't want to change position or size of…
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How to unlink material from a mesh, with python script?

Blender 2.68a, Python 3.3 I would like to unlink material from a mesh, and even after googling a hour I don't know how to do it. I only saw scripts that work in Blender 2.5x only for this. So could someone tell me (or link info), how to do…
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Rendered aspect ratio different from the viewport's camera view

Why would there be a difference in aspect ratio between a rendered image, and the camera perspective in the viewport? My render is getting squashed to fit a different aspect ratio. Here is a scene with a circle and emission shader. Camera…
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How to put a unique material on duplicated objects separately?

I've a sphere and then duplicate it. In object tree they are displayed as three siblings. I selected one of them and created a green glass material through node editor however this material was assigned to all three spheres. I confirmed that my…
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How to make the file manager default to sorting by modification date?

I often want to find files which I've modified recently, so I'd like to set the file manager to sort by modification date automatically. Is this possible?
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How to combine renders from multiple cameras

I have 4 cameras in different positions but all of them point to the center of the scene. What I want is to combine all the renders, like film taken from different cameras, combined in one, image from different angles? Is it possible to render all…
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Unwrap UV map proportionally to object size

Is there any way to automatically unwrap UV map proportionally to object or "world" size? For example: I've made two cubes, one is two times bigger than other (scale is applied). Then I unwrapped texture with Smart UV project which will try to span…
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