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Custom trackpad pan/zoom/rotate behavior add-on

I'm trying to write an addon to customize the trackpad panning, zoomimg, and rotating gestures, but can't find a way to read the actual trackpad parameters for position and so on. The properties in ...
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Per-Vertex lighting in GLSL?

How can I achieve per-vertex lighting (like in single/multi-texture shading) in GLSL with all of the other GLSL features (like buffer shadows, texture layers, etc.)? Bonus points if it can be done in ...
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Generated Previews - low-resolution and dark shading fix?

(2.79 - Blender Internal) Generated Previews is very handy feature for previewing assets when importing / linking, I would just like to know if there is a way to: Make thumbnails lighter to match the ...
12 votes
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Creating custom node types for geometry nodes

is it possible to create custom nodes for the geometry node editor (NOT node groups, combining blender built-in nodes), define inputs and outputs and execute some python code in between? I couldn't ...
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Operator tooltip from layout text

The concept is to make a panel layout that emulates the workspace (screen) layout. While testing I have set all the buttons to be the Splash Screen operator. An image of how this looks for five ...
11 votes
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Save screenshot (bge) without writing to disk

This is a little odd but I need to save a screen-shot as an array (numpy array for eg) without writing to disk. The idea here is to create and then call the array once per frame in an external script ...
10 votes
1 answer
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How can I get a list of currently running modal operators?

Here I found a working solution using ctypes which allows to find out if any modal operator is currently running. I am not good in C and don't understand how it works. But I'm sure someone does, so is ...
10 votes
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How to load an internal blender image using OSL?

OSL has the texture command that we can use to load image files and map in an object. Dfelinto made a nice video about it some years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5N2rnFtSlw We also have many ...
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Scatter objects with different forms and sizes on flat surface without intersections

My goal is to make a node group that can distribute random objects over a given surface without (noticeable) intersections. I suppose the surface is flat, but it can be different forms (rectangle, ...
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Play/animate images, spritesheets or video files in 'template_icon_view'

I want to "play" some animation in this UI space, the template_icon_view: I can load all the images I want, for example: I know that the gif format is ...
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Antialiasing textures in cycles (Blender 2.77 and higher)

I would like to get an answer to a frustrating question. https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.77/Cycles In this link is "Anti-Aliasing is now enabled for baking. (c359343)" ...
8 votes
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Sub-steps setting for Simulation Nodes

In the Blender 4.0 online reference, there is this mention in the Simulation Nodes section: In the Node Editor the inputs can be renamed, shuffled and removed. This is also the place where sub-steps ...
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3D Stereo Active shutter vision LCS glasses realtime viewport?

Is it possible (or maybe already implemented by someone) to configure the viewport to display stereoscopically at a set frequency dependent on the given screen refresh rate, while having the frequency ...
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Blender on Windows is skipping python script. (brenda on windows)

We've been using Brenda for quite some time now for rendering architectural stills. Since our editing stations are doing nothing at night, I started making a desktop app that allows you to pick jobs ...
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Video codec/video file format confusion in Blender

Having used other Video Editors it seems like the options Blender offers for selecting what container format and what codec format you want to use for your video is confusing. The above screenshot ...

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