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Top new questions this week:

How to flip vertex group and bone names?

I have been working on a model, and its nearly done. Modeling, rigging, weight painting, ect is all complete. Only issue is ive noticed that I accidentally marked all right bones as left, and left ...

rigging bones vertex-groups  
user avatar asked by Firepawz Score of 4
user avatar answered by Dúthomhas Score of 4

How to create a seamless/looping procedural Noise Texture in Geometry Nodes?

I am using a procedural Noise Texture inside Geometry Nodes to displace vertices (simulating displacement).In certain cases, using a seamless/looping texture yields a significantly higher quality ...

texturing materials geometry-nodes  
user avatar asked by blenduser Score of 3
user avatar answered by Gordon Brinkmann Score of 5

How to extrude each instance by a separate distance using Geonodes?

I have an array of instances and a texture. By sampling the texture, I was able to find the color of each instance and to delete all instances with alpha. However, when I try to use the Extrude Mesh ...

geometry-nodes  
user avatar asked by mr-chen-rui Score of 3
user avatar answered by Daniel Möller Score of 4

Creating a loft / bridging node group in geometry nodes

I'm trying to create a loft / bridging node group in geometry nodes. Example: I have two objects I want to "smoothly" connect / interpolate two faces together like this using geometry nodes....

geometry-nodes mathematics interpolation  
user avatar asked by Rick T Score of 3
user avatar answered by Daniel Möller Score of 5

How do I separate parts of my mesh

I am trying to model the roof of a building which has part of its roof separated from the remainder and one end lifted. Here is that roof with added arrow pointing to the edge which is lifted. Here ...

edit-mode  
user avatar asked by John Arnold Score of 3
user avatar answered by The Kalaakaar Score of 3

Clear and Keep Transform behavior if parent object is also parented

I noticed something. Let's say I have ObjectKid, ObjectParent and ObjectGrandparent. Obviously, ObjectKid is parented to ObjectParent and ObjectParent is parented to ObjectGrandparent. I move ...

transforms parent  
user avatar asked by ElekFarkas97 Score of 2
user avatar answered by moonboots Score of 2

How do I fix these edges/faces from intersecting in Geometry nodes?

I have the following geometry node that creates a cobblestone-like mesh, but the edges intersect each other, and I'd like this process to merge them together as soon as they touch each other. Can ...

geometry-nodes intersection  
user avatar asked by AlexSNorth Score of 2
user avatar answered by Amral Imran Score of 4

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Can't paint texture

I am new to blender and I could use some help, i watched a lot of tutorials but I still can't paint an object, I click on the object but it doesn't add color. I enter on texture paint and all the ...

texture-painting  
user avatar asked by Vlad Ivanescu Score of 12
user avatar answered by gandalf3 Score of 8

How to focus on the selected object?

In Maya if we have an object selected and we press F then the object is brought into focus and if no object is selected then all the objects in the scene are brought into focus. How can this be done ...

3d-view objects shortcut  
user avatar asked by Bleeding Fingers Score of 133
user avatar answered by Fweeb Score of 146

How to reset the center of rotation of the 3d view when it is not the center of the view

Sometimes the 3d view rotation using the 3rd mouse button starts to rotate around an unusual point that is not very convenient. I don't know why it starts doing this, but it usually starts when I'm ...

3d-view  
user avatar asked by Jason Score of 72
user avatar answered by Qutorial Score of 80

Pose Mode: How to reset transformed armature to its rest position?

I got a problem with pose mode. Like the heading says, I haven't found yet a possibility to reset the already transformed armature so that it exactly does look like the rest position (though it is ...

armature transforms  
user avatar asked by xDonnervogelx Score of 60
user avatar answered by Polosson Score of 89

Add different materials to different parts of a mesh?

How do you add more than one material to a mesh? I have tried adding two materials to the object, and then assigning one of the materials to a vertex-group, but I could not find a place to assign it....

mesh materials  
user avatar asked by Stephen Score of 160
user avatar answered by Stephen Score of 204

Where is Transfer attribute in 3.4?

Where is Transfer attribute node in 3.4? I don't find it in the list of nodes:

geometry-nodes  
user avatar asked by Crantisz Score of 30

How to change number of vertices in add object in 2.8?

I'm very new to Blender and following tutorials with the old Blender UI is tricky in 2.8 to say the least. I am trying to find how to perform this function in 2.8 Prior to 2.8, Shift + A > Mesh > ...

vertices  
user avatar asked by Ben Score of 18
user avatar answered by Nicola Sap Score of 30

Can you answer these questions?

unselectable edge appearing in object mode (possibly caused by bevel modifer?)

This strange edge has appeared on my mesh. It is unselectable and has seemingly no effect on the surrounding faces. Deleting said faces causes it to disappear, only for it to reappear when you add ...

mesh edges bevel  
user avatar asked by Slowpoke Rodriguez Score of 1
user avatar answered by moonboots Score of 0

How to achieve paparazzi photography flash in a stadium crowd?

Question I was wondering how I could achieve the flashes from people’s cameras in a crowd? Here is a good video reference of what I mean. ...

rendering cycles-render-engine geometry-nodes lighting procedural  
user avatar asked by Shuusai Score of 1
user avatar answered by Chris Paton Score of 0

How to save intermediate sample steps of Cycles render via Python API?

i would like to do a batch rendering of a single static scene via python and save the intermediate images, i.e. the same effect that you see when doing interactively a render with high number of ...

python rendering cycles-render-engine api  
user avatar asked by NEBIS Nero e Bianco Software Score of 1
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