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Create procedural spiral pattern
I'm trying to make a galaxy in blender. If I use an image of a galaxy to get the spiral shape it becomes a 2d image projected into the 3d volume. To avoid this I wanted to use a procedural method, but I can't figure our how to get a spiral shape.…
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How to animate layers in Blender 2.6
I remember being able to animate layers using keyframes in some previous Blender release.
Now if I try to add a keyframe to an object layer I get the following error message :
"layers" property cannot be animated
I have the following code which can…
user471
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Strawberry seeds
I would like to model a strawberry:
However, I don't know how to model the all around the strawberry. I already made the basic shape:
Juan Naym
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How to open system console to get output from Blender on Mac OS 10?
Noobie here.
Should I open Mac terminal and cd to /Applications/Blender/ which is where my Blender app is? Doesn't seem to work for me trying to run script from Text screen in Blender. I guess there is no way to see output within Blender itself?
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Scaling: What’s the difference between Ctrl+A and S?
I saw some blender tutorials, and a doubt arises to me. Whats the difference between using Ctrl + A and S to scale something?
For instance, I modeled some branches using Skin modifier and if I select a vertex and use Ctrl + A it allows me to…
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How to cover a surface with cells (Biological tissue)
I am looking for an efficient way to cover a mesh with cells (spheres) to obtain results similar to the image below (i.e. a realistic biological tissue).
It's a problem I have struggled so much and I have tried many things but I am probably…
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How to re-link missing blender files
I have multiple characters linked to a blender file, but i moved the original character files and now blender is sating they're missing.
Is it possible to get blender to find the missing blender files like it finds missing image files so that i can…
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How do I animate emission with an audio file?
In cycles,
I want an audio file of speech to cause an emission surface to change the amount of emission strength to match the volume from the voice actor's audio file.
No sound = 0 strength
Loudest sound = 10 strength
How do I connect one event to…
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Where is the Layers panel in Blender 2.8?
I am starting working on Blender 2.8, but I can't find the layer panel. Where is it?
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Object not outlined in Viewport despite Outline Selected enabled
I'm working on some models someone else made as part of a project. The .blend files they've given me have several objects that get no selection outline in the viewport despite Outline Selected being checked. Other objects work normally. I assume…
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Filling a 3D Mesh
I currently have a mesh of a building (it has a texture). Initially it was a solid; however, I sliced off the top to remove noise in MeshLab. Now I have a mesh that's really only an outline. Any ideas how to fill it? I tried ALTF, but that didn't go…
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why i cant rotate to close the lid
I have made the box and the lid. I want to close the box with the lid. I have selected the edge and with the 3d cursor as pivot point im rotating. with the x axis i rotate i hit x twice also but its not working. Why its moving from the position. Any…
atek
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In Python is it possible to change the background color of a property ui?
I want to be able to change the background color of a property ui.
At the moment it does:
Green = has an Fcurve
Yellow = has a keyframe
Purple = has a Driver
I want to to be able to change the color of the background depending my own conditions.…
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How to animate hair particle growth?
Can't find how to animate hair particles growing. For some reason keyframes don't work on the hair length parameter.
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Pipe with round caps (ends)?
I was trying to make a pipe with rounded cap or ends. Something like in the image, where I just added to spheres as "ends".
I've already surfed the internet a little and it looks like an uncovered issue, as simple as it seems.
I need to do this…
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