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Is there a way to replace an object with another one AND its children?
I want to replace several objects with a group of objects each. So I tried it with a parent group and linked the data oft the parent with the objects I want to replace, but it only links the data of ...
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Making Objects in the file or appending/linking them? [duplicate]
I've been learning about the append and linking function to bring in objects from other Blend files to the current one being worked on, but something keeps nagging at the back of my mind:
Aside from ...
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Moving linked groups to another file
Anybody knows how to move linked groups to another files keeping it linked?
If i am appending the scene to another file all linked groups became a real objects which increased size of the scene ...
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Use less memory in for faster rendering (32GRAM)
In better way to explain it. I have a project with a lot of details but also a lot of duplicated objects. It took a lot of time just to calculate for rendering and in some computers it showed me 'out ...
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Hide an object in a linked group
I have a character made of several objects that I am linking into a scene. The character's objects are part of a group, and I'm linking in the group. However, for certain scenes I want to hide some of ...
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Changing only one linked group Original File
I've linked several groups from one file to another. But after i wanted to change one group's original file to another. In which I was successful by changing the blend file path in the outliner ...
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No make proxy option
I have my model and i have group and i want to make it MAKE PROXY but there is no option. I have group it and find in the search did not get then i ungroup and find did not get. Where it is hidden or ...
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No material on objects in linked group?
I took a few meshes and armatures, and placed it in a group. Then I opened a new blend and linked the group. Now all materials are gray, and it looks black on rendering.
I tried to add a proxy, and ...
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Linking objects, groups, and Freestyle
Freestyle can be restricted to certain objects using Groups. I have a file with freestyle settings and a group named Freestyle1. I also have a separate file containing ObjectA which is also inside a ...
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Memory (and large project) management [closed]
From what I've understood from other questions here, group instancing and dynamic linking are two methods for managing memory in a project that is large or complex. The latter also allows one to ...
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Link to objects that have links to other objects
I'm complete newbie in blender.
For example I have A, B, C models. Every model is saved in a separate *.blend file. A and B are linked into C as proxies and somehow transformed to form C. Then I want ...
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Place random object from group
I'm working on a scene with a lot of container ships, where the ship is always the same, but i'd like to have a different arrangement of containers on the ships.
I've modelled the ship and a ...
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Make a group of objects follow a curve
I'm trying to make a railroad of some sort, but i've just hit a wall. When trying to use the array modifier on the object group, I couldn't find it.
I'm linking my objects between different blender ...
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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 ...
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How to unlink a link group completely in blender, so I can edit all mesh data, material, texture of this group
The group I linked from other blend file name "beigeBook" like so in the image below:
And I don't know how to make this link group became children of beigeBook object.
How can't i unlink this "...
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