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Group particles not showing up in Cycles

i'm currently having trouble with a project i'm working on. I can't quite get this object group to emit from this plane as a particle system. The group is on the 2nd layer. Here's the blend file: ...
Wronith's user avatar
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Is it possible to get the output of a different material available as a node?

I'm building a model of a piece of swampland, and I'm hoping to use a material-blending technique I know from Unity to handle its appearance. It involves lerping between multiple other materials using ...
Michael Macha's user avatar
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1 answer
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Linking lights to single parameter in Cycles

I would like to be able to link lights to a single master control. Say I have 4 down lights in a room, I wish to set one as the master light and when I adjust its intensity, the other 3 lights adjust ...
Piers17's user avatar
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1 vote
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Why can't a linked group be used as a dynamic paint brush?

I have created a character for my 30second short that is my final in my Blender Graphics 3D Design class in a separate blend file from the landscape it resides in. I am trying to make it so the ...
Bri Lawrence's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
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problems with appending a node group

I have asked how I can make a node group a part of the blender star-up file, which turned out was already answered here But the thing is I'm getting lost between step 4 and 5 of this answer. On step ...
Espen Sales's user avatar
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8 votes
2 answers
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How to use multiple particle types in a particle system?

I created a particle system, duplicating a red sphere. However I want to also have yellow and orange spheres (already have them in another layer) in the same particle system. So I want to know how to ...
beavoru's user avatar
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4 votes
2 answers
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Pointers to node groups?

I am making "2x4"s!!! For consistency across the variations i have to use the same texture, otherwise they would look like they were made with different types of wood... but if you line them up you ...
Konner Rasmussen's user avatar