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Flat shading when using displacement or bump
When using a bump or displacement node and bump only or displacement and bump in the material settings, the shade smooth option seems to not be working. Instead the geometry starts to show, auto ...
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How to calculate bezier curve handles positions to reproduce a known curve?
The question in the title is too general, but this is the idea.
For instance, if we look at a bezier circle, we can notice that the handle position is 0.55213 aside the control point. What is the ...
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Geometry nodes: is there a way to create a centerline of a closed curve/mesh?
See above image for a reference. For this kind of closed curve I would like to create a centerline.
I have previously worked with an extension in Inkscape which creates a centerline but it is cutting ...
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How to Save default "Blender File View" window layout?
The window that pops up when you Save As, Export, etc. I would like to re-arrange the left sidebar so that my Bookmarks are always on top, but I don't see a way to save this preference. Any help?
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How to instance a roof tiles?
Imagine that I have a mesh that represents a quite complicated roof. It consists of planar faces:
Is it possible to instance roof tiles like this using geometry nodes?
Here is the setup that I have ...
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Is it possible to control the radius of the skin modifier with geometry nodes?
Is it possible to apply to an object (formed by only vertices) a skin modifier, and then control the radius of the modifier using geometry nodes?
This means that the object would have two modifiers, ...
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Lattice modifier causing object to scale weird
I am using a lattice modifier but every time I use it the object scales up, does anyone know why this is? my scale is applied and it is just a basic cube. Heres is a before and after picture
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Occlusion Trasparency with Masks (Lineart modifier)
Occlusion Masks can be used to set variable Transparency/Color on lines generated with Lineart Modifier.
However ,the workflow to create these masks and set bit transparency on them is not provided.
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How to detect if Blender is currently rendering
I would like to hide certain parts of the UI automatically as soon as the user hits the Render Animation button.
I'm looking for something similar to ...
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The documentation says frame_change_pre is NOT the ‘before the frame changes’ event. What exactly is it then?
I would have imagined that frame_change_pre is the event that happens, well, before the frame changes. Silly me!
The documentation states (emphasis mine):
Called ...
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Which format for saving transparency from bloom and respecting colors (tried PNG/TGA/TIFF/EXR)
TL;DR: How can I properly save a picture with semi-transparent "emit" pixels coming from a bloom? I understand that .PNG can't handle that, but I'd expect TIFF/Targa/.EXR to handle it ...
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Finding which addon an operator belongs to
A recent question / answer involves what looks like an overridden operator:
bpy.ops.object.align()
Differing from the documented default, how do we find which ...
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Object Picker Modal Operator?
I saw this question this morning and i'm also quite interested in a Picker modal operator, so I did tinker a bit and achieve a somewhat beginning of a working code but I encountered some problems ...
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How can I detect a scene change from Python?
I am trying to detect when the active scene changes.
Initially I tried using the message bus system to subscribe to bpy.types.Window, "scene"
Like this:
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How to animate a spinning Coil Spring (mechanic watch)
In a mechanic watch you will find such a coil spring.
The spring is fixed in two points (green crosses) and has a spinning attractor at the inside of the spiral which is moving first clockwise and ...
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