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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Do semi-complex material node groups considerably slow down Blender?
I've put together several node groups for the purposes of color correction, falloff, and other various utilities. I'm wondering though what kind of impact this will have on my scenes if my materials ...
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How do I designate objects as parts of different material groups and different vertex groups? [duplicate]
Thank you for taking the time to look at my question. I have a robot figure that is split up into a collection of various objects. Some of these objects will make up separate vertex groups that will ...
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How to mirror actions from a object to another in real time?
im having some trouble with trying to mirror my actions into another object. So basically imagine Cube 1 and Cube 2 side by side, what i want to do is to when i change any form our scale of the Cube 1 ...
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How to take an assest I made and group it together to Appended in another project?
all I am very new to blender. I have been googling but cannot seem to find anything. I made a dumpster for scenes to use in the future. I parented it to an empty, but I cannot figure out how to group ...
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Merge bezier curves without deformation?
So I've been working on the hair of a character, and I need to merge all the hair strips together. But whenever I do that, everything is deformed after doing so. I have tried applying rotation and ...
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How to add a modifier to a collection(group? linked objects? IDK) which it has modifiers inside
I'm a beginner to blender and I'm trying to make a cnc model using some different objects which have mirror modifier inside the group(e.g. the bars).
And now I want to add an array modifier to let it ...
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CTRL+J Changes my imported svg file
I imported an SVG file and when I do ⌃ Ctrl + J it changes my images, it crops it. The image that says "Just Play" is before ⌃ Ctrl + J and the cropped one is after.
Why is this happening? ...
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How to make node disappear
It seems to make the value node disappear while connecting it to group input. I've tried different combinations and have node wrangler on but I'm not sure how to get it. I'm also unclear as to exactly ...
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How to Stop Join From Creating Doubles of Objects?
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I am trying to import a Collada model with many individual pieces to Blender. I have thus far successfully imported the model, added color to the individual parts, and I am now trying to ...
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Object glitching/dissapearing in render [duplicate]
I have completed my animation but I realised when I render it that one of the propellers blades starts to glitch. On some frames it is in shot and some it is out of shot and this is really strange. ...
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Bending a group of objects?
How to bend (or add any other deforming modifiers to) a group of objects as at one solid object? Just for example this car animation (URL attached). It is good to keep wheels and lights, interior, and ...
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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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What is a python command to create a node group or shader node tree from the nodes in the currently active material?
Essentially what I am trying to do is create a script that can make nodes into groups or shader node trees (unsure exactly what the difference is) based on which nodes are told to be selected at the ...
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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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Pivoting multiple objects around Cursor doesn't change individual object orientation (2.8+)
Following the Blender Guru Wrecking Ball tutorial and ran into a hitch at 4:47 with Cursor Pivoting.
I've successfully snapped my Cursor to the selected object, selected Transformation Orientation: ...
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