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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grouping objects with modifiers so it behaves like one object
Grouping objects with modifiers so it behaves like one object.
Is it possible to make a such grouping?
I made shoes for a character that I want to animate.
The shoes are composed of several elements (...
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Add a created group in a node tree exploiting python [duplicate]
I have created a node tree in a different blend file, and I just need to add it as a group exploiting a script. In the following figure there is the "manual" procedure.
I have tried to add ...
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Why doesn't Blender have groups that allow you to transform grouped objects all at once?
I'm a long-time 3DS Max user recently converted to Blender (refugee from the monopoly and now financial oppression practiced by Autodesk). So far, I love many of the features in Blender more than Max ...
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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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Rotate a group of 6 objects to align 3 points (each on a different object) on a plane
I have 6 rectangular blocks that I want to rotate as a group so the bottom 3 vertices (each are on a different block) end up on the same plane; in this case the global X-Y plane. How can I do this?
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How to force a node group input field to display a slider?
I have created a couple of node groups with some "group-inputs-sliders" (The one called "Roughness" in the bottom picture). I would like it to have the blue-bar slider like the blender native ones. ...
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Animation node - sorting a collection of objects from their size
Could you please help.
I've got a collection of objects, I want each of them to appear ( every 10 frame animation) in the viewer. Starting from the smallest to the biggest.
Dear Leander
Thank you, ...
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Can not set the origin to a hierarchy/group
Whenever I Select my Group/null/Hierarchy under the outliner. I can't seem to make the origin to geometry work. It stuck in (0,0,0). I've tried to set the cursor to the middle of the group/hierarchy ...
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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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When to use Join vs Parent vs Group
I’m a bit confused when to use/not use Parents, Groups or joining multiple objects into one object.
For example I have 500 trees which are 2D images on planes. There are 25 different tree images that ...
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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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Check if group input node was passed a value, optional default value
I am trying to creat a green screen filter. I would like to have the option of passing it a background image, but if no image was passed, then to just make the background transparent. How would I go ...
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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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