Questions tagged [groups]
Prior to Blender version 2.8, Groups were a means of organizing and instancing multiple objects, which could be manipulated as one. Use this tag for questions pertaining to Groups in version 2.79 and earlier versions of Blender. For more recent versions, see the [collections] tag.
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Why do all the objects get the same color?
I try to give different base colours to my objects but when I define a base colour for one object, a couple of objects get the same colour at the same time. made a new material for those ones to ...
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Add a GroupNode to all objects except 1 specific one with Python
Does anyone have a clue how to do this?
In python code i have a button that selects all my objects in the scene except 1 object named ‘PLANE’.
Those objects have all a material (Principled BSDF and ...
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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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A single node that affect multiple meshes
I have a lot of meshes of hair ( with their own node setup/uvs/textures/materials ) that forms a complete haircut.
How can i make a node , like a color ramp , that will affect all these meshes at the ...
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Why do my grouped material nodes not appear as a box? [duplicate]
In this tutorial, when the user groups some material nodes (at around 8m25s), they appear as a box which he can rename.
When I follow this step, my whole node background goes a shade of green. The ...
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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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Is there a way to fill tiny holes leftover when joining meshes together?
I merged/joined some planes when transforming them with the polytool. I saw that this 2 tiny holes were left. Is there a way to fill them or get rid of them?
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Here is the file: https://drive....
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Blender 3.0.0 - How to use a vertex group in geometry nodes?
Does anyone know a way I can utilize vertex groups to limit the instancing in v. 3.0.0 ?
Here is a thread explaining nicely what I'm also trying to do. The thing is, 3.0.0 Beta apparently removed ...
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Checkered Texture from Nodes
Greetings dear 3D artists!
I am trying to create a checkered material from groups of nodes. I am using the following groups of nodes:
'Checkers V2.0' - Generates checkered material.
'Grid' - Generates ...
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How to rotate many objects around their individual origins?
I have got about 500 planes in my scene that were generated by an addon. But the addon generates them in a horizontal orientation, whereas I need them in a vertical orientation. One object, or two, I ...
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How to get back parent with empty
I have a big empty parented to all my model, There are several small empty for window door etc. I forgot to select the small empty and parent to big empty. What i did is i selected my complete model ...
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Dope sheet doesn't color channels anymore
When having bone groups with colors would make these colors to show up on the Dope Sheet keyframe channels like this
This is what it's meant to look like, But now everything is a single color
I took ...
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Put Node Groups into Premade Categories
So I was making node groups the other day, and had a thought... "Hey, could I put these into one of blender's premade categories?" I searched far and wide, climbed mountains, ventured ...
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Group visibility doesnt toggle inside visibility?
how come turnign off visibility on a group doesnt turn off visbility for the things inside it?
This happens often and is really annoying
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Pros and cons of seperating meshes into objects and ways to switch between [closed]
I got confused recently where I couldn't select a mesh in edit mode unless the object was selected.
I'm working on a map with a lot of separate meshes, so it's a chore to scroll down to the ...
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