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How to add more objects to an animation group?

I'm new to animating in Blender. The issue is I've created a simple space ship object and animated it. Working great! I then used Random Flow mesh generator (great 3rd party addon!) to create ...
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Move/rotate all objects contained in a collection around the space

I have modelled a car and I have arranged all differents objects parts in nested collections under a main one called "Model". Now I need to move all the car in the space I know that I can ...
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Move collection including invisible objects

How can I move/transform a whole collection of objects, including invisible objects? I have invisible objects to facilitate boolean modifiers. The popular advice to move a collection is to select all ...
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What is this hierarchy of an empty and a collection, and how do I get to the mesh inside?

I got some plants from here and they are gorgeous. However, I ended up moving some files and the textures broke, so I diligently went back and fixed them one by one. The last bit was doing the stems ...
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How to apply modifier to collections

Good morning, everyone, I'm currently on a project to make a small LEGO animation on Blender. I wanted to make a city with LEGO buildings as below. The problem is that these buildings are built ...
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One modifier for a group of objects

I know blender is really weak when it comes to this sort of thing compared to other 3D software. But is there ANY way of using a modifier on more than one object? This would be especially useful for ...
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How to make Blender 2.8 remember collections Outliner state when i save and reopen the file?

If you create bunch of collections and arrange them in outliner, you "close" some of them and "open" others (with little arrow left to the collection name in Outliner), save the file, exit and open ...
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Selecting Collections [duplicate]

In the older versions of blender, you could group objects and they would be treated like one object. In blender 2.8, groups have been replaced with collections. The collections are not treated as one ...
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Duplicating collections in 2.81 not copying everything

I'm trying to copy everything in a collection (I don't want them linked) called Camera.001 from one scene to another scene (the second scene is in the same blender file). But I notice that when I ...
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How to keep parts of single object easily selectable in 2.8?

I have a humanoid character, and I want to be able to select and move it's parts (like the hand highlighted on the photo) easily - that is without having to select all their vertices/faces all the ...
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Object Organization - Hierarchies, collections, groups, empties?

If I want to organize my sub-components into a convenient hierarchy in 2.8, what is the best approach? Should I use collections, groups, empties, or simple parenting? First, I haven't been able to ...
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How do I make groups in 2.8?

In the Blender Guru Donut tutorial he made a sprinkle for a donut. He copied that sprinkle and made a smaller version of it. He Shift selected both and made a group with the shortcut Ctrl+G. When I do ...
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Use a collection as object inputs in Animation nodes

i;m trying to use animation nodes for the first time. I've made a sub program which does what it's supposed to (scale objects up as a sweeper object goes past them in the X axis) , but How can i make ...
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