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What is the technical difference between an Ngon and a bunch of Triangles?
I read somewhere that Ngons were nothing more than triangles masked as an Ngon.
Some testing reveals this is not true, at least to some extent.
Here are two sub-surfed cylinders, one with an Ngon, the other with a Triangle Fan.
The things that look…
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Hexagon column tessellation
New member here so please let me know is I'm doing anything wrong in this post and I'll adjust accordingly.
I'd like to create the following image. I create a hexagon (circle with 6 sides), make the face, add one array modifier in x 20 times,…
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Is there any way to copy the weight of one bone over to another(forgot to use x-mirror)?
I solved my other problem and I finally got it to deform to an acceptable level. However now I'm having trouble, I forgot to activate x-mirror when weight painting and I got the weights right on one side but I can't or don't know how I can transfer…
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Adding operator to the toolshelf?
I'm just starting to learn scripting in Blender with Python. I made a simple operator following the quickstart intro on the Blender documentation:
import bpy
def main(context):
for ob in context.scene.objects:
print(ob)
class…
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Access skin modifier radius data
With Skin Modifier, we can "weight" a vertex (in Edit Mode) so that the resulting Skin mesh is bigger or smaller - similar to Curve objects which has "Scale Feather" adjustable.
Manually, we can hit Tab, go to Edit Mode, select Vertices, then CtrlA…
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Cryptomatte - What does Crypto00, Crypto01, Crypto02 mean?
Why does the Render Layer node use several outputs, like for object pass, such as -
CryptoObject00
CryptoObject02
CryptoObject04
While Cryptomatte node uses several inputs like the following -
Crypto00
Crypto01
Crypto02
When I tried connecting…
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Blender 2.8: units of scale, grid, and default size of objects
I have installed the 2.80 of blender and trying to make sense with the changes in the GUI and the mindset. Most of the changes I like; some of the changes I still need to get accustomed with. I am modeling with blender for 3D printing and am still…
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Where is the system console?
I just ran a python script in blender.
However it gave me an errror:
Python script failed, check the message in the system console.
I've searched online but i can't find the system console. I have two terminals open to the blender file already but…
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display face normal direction in blender 2.8
How can I know if the normals of an object are flipped or not? Because in version 2.8 both normals have the same color and I can't identify if it's a flipped normal, unlike the previous versions where there are two colors of the faces: white is a…
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What does "Baking" mean?
I want to make some cool items for Dota 2 and I'm reading a guide. There are some tips about baking etc. but I can't use them, because I don't even know what baking means. Can somebody explain this, please?
Thanks for all answers.
user3123
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Motion Tracking. What do the graphs represent and how are they useful?
After tracking things on a video clip or image sequence, I get a graph with green, red and sometimes blue lines.
What do those lines represent, and how are they useful to get more accurate tracking or a better camera solution?
user1853
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I can't seem to select faces and edges?
I'm following this tutorial to get started with blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp1sH6Cm1ww
When I try selecting an edge or a face, the program does not let me. However, I can select vertices, and I can, by result, select edges and face by…
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Soft body to Soft body collision
Is it possible to have two (or more) Soft body objects collide in Blender?
I have tried enabling self-collision, but distinct objects don't seem to interact with each other at all.
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Replace matrix @ vector list comprehensions with something more efficient
I'm looking to replace list comprehensions like the following with something more efficient and I was wondering if numpy can be used.
[obj.matrix_world @ v.co for v in obj.data.vertices]
I can do this, which is significantly faster, but still lacks…
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List of objects in scene with counts (verts, faces, tris)?
Is there a way to see a list of all objects in the scene with the number of verts, tris, faces of each object?
I know you can click on a object and go into edit mode and it shows the numbers, but if you have many objects in a scene and you have to…
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