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Is there a way I can make render times longer to avoid overheating?

Whenever I render a picture above 16 samplings with Cycles, my laptop crashes in 5-20 seconds. Is there a way I can manually make the render time longer while not affecting the quality of the render, so it doesn't get my laptop so hot it…
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How can you change the curve resolution of hair particles?

How can I change the curve resolution of hair particles? It seems that by default, hair consists of 4 segments. Which is fine most of the time, but for long hair this does not work at all, as in this picture. The segments spinner at the very top…
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Magic Eye Render

Today's newspaper had a Magic Eye or Autostereogram image in the kids section ... started me wondering could tools available to blender, be used to render a simple scene (Suzanne of course, repeating grease pencil Suzanne) as a Magic Eye? Image…
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How to create a twisted spiral tunnel?

I need to to create a twisted tunnel. Example: Though the stripes should have volume since the tunnel is the inner side of spiraled marshmallow tubes. Example: I started adding a screw modifier to a plane which looked promising from from the…
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Array a collection of objects along a curve

So I wanted to array this 3 bottles on a Spiral Curve I Tried using the most normal way possible, array and curve modifier , the bottles are stretched and the most importantly, only 1 bottle can be array-ed at a time... Then I searched all over…
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How to use blender command lines in OSX?

Update: NB: This is a revised and updated version of my original question. You can also see the relevant discussion on meta as to why it was closed and reopened. On June 29th I asked what I thought was a very simple, straight forward question: Can…
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Lines inside mesh

I'm trying to make and rig a human mesh but instead of faces I want the volume to be made out of lines, like the image below suggests, with the possibility of animating the lines, just make them wiggle constantly. Is this possible? and how can I do…
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AMD GPU Material in "material preview mode" and "rendered mode", is entirely gray as background. Only outline is displayed

I don't know why but now, when i go in material preview or rendered (in solid mode it works fine), my object is entirely gray, or invisible idk, because it has the same color of the background. I've been working for days on this project without…
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Blender Eevee how to render Bloom effect when using transparent background

I need to render Bloom effect while using a transparent background, I need to save PNG sequence with RGBA, when I do this, the Bloom effect is being removed by the transparency since it falls outside the geometry. This is the effect I'm after but…
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How do I create array of objects of alternating color?

I want to create a chain that alternates between two colors every x chain link. This is what I want to model: The best I could do was use the wave texture node, but then I get chain links that are half orange half black: Of course, I could just…
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Is it possible to dump an Objects Properties and Methods?

Due to the lack of a class diagramm I need to explore the data structures by dumping objects to see what is in there. How can I dump the Objects internals to the console? In this snippet I tried to print the objects but I only get error messages…
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How can the Glass Shader be imitated using only other shaders?

Exactly what does the Glass shader do? I would guess that it combines the effects of Glossy (zero roughness) for reflections, and Refraction for, obviously, light refracting through the object. Glass could just be a handy combination of Add,…
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How to switch between editors with shortcuts

I'm tired of pulling out windows to get the UV editor or pull down a menu in the screen sets. Is there a shortcut, with one key, to get my 3D view to UV editor/node editor? I have not found a way to edit shortcuts that way.
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Loop-cut won't go all the way around

Alright so I've seen some postings about loop cuts and done some research. I am very new to blender and modeling overall. I am trying to loop cut this concrete barrier. Now I'm following a tutorial and kind of did my own thing in some areas. I…
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Adding a custom shortcut for sculpt mode

I read in the blender 2.6 wiki that there is no shortcut for sculpt mode. I would like to make Ctrl+Alt+Tab the shortcut to switch to sculpt mode, but based on the instructions for making new shortcuts I read here and here, it doesn't seem to work…
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