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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How to align objects to the center of another object
I am new to Blender (2.8) and trying to model a kind of turret, to try and learn by myself.
I am encountering a rather simple problem : I have placed 4 cannons relative to one another, and would ...
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How to keep parts of single object easily selectable in 2.8?
I have a humanoid character, and I want to be able to select and move it's parts (like the hand highlighted on the photo) easily - that is without having to select all their vertices/faces all the ...
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Rigging problem with a Telescope
I have modeled a telescope and I want to rig it to rotate and pan it as needed in the final scene.
I have grouped the parts that I want to rotate and pan seperately, added two bones for both the ...
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How to unlink two objects in the same group?
The cube I was messing with somehow "coupled" to the bottle and now i can't select them individually. What happened? Doing Alt+P and Clear Parent doens't do anything.
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Scripting: How to correctly group objects
How can I correctly group multiple objects and have them behave as a unit. I tried the following
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Keeping group instances visible while hiding originals
After creating several group instances, I've found that the original objects I used in their creation will show up during a render.
I thought I could fix this by selecting the original objects, going ...
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Object Organization - Hierarchies, collections, groups, empties?
If I want to organize my sub-components into a convenient hierarchy in 2.8, what is the best approach? Should I use collections, groups, empties, or simple parenting?
First, I haven't been able to ...
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How to show hidden groups in 2.80? [duplicate]
I have just updated to 2.80 from 2.79.
When I open a model in which I had some hidden groups they now in 2.80 have the eye icon to show they are not hidden, but they are also semitransparent in the ...
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How do I stop all objects from scaling?
I'm new to Blender and making a scene with a few objects in it. Somehow I switched something on and all of my objects are scaling and/or moving when I adjust one thing. How can I turn this off? I don'...
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how to make a group of Objects
I have this problem.. i want to combine the objects into a group so that it becomes one object and when i move it (the group of objects), it moves as a single object/model. I know that we need to ...
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How to determine which vertex groups a vertex belongs to?
I'm using the newest version of 2.8, and I'm wanting to determine which group specific vertices belong to. I have a lot of groups and vertices, so checking them one at a time will be a lot of time ...
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Size still the same after removing groups
I am very new to blender and have a model (an .obj file) where I want to remove some groups. Removing the groups are no problem, but when I then import the new file into the program where I'm using ...
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How do I access a Rigify Control by name (Grouped and linked into scene) with python in 2.79
I used rigify to generate a control rig over a Basic human Armature.
I then grouped the Armature+Control rig so I could link it into a scene.
In the Scene where it is linked I made the rig a proxy so ...
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How do I open my .blend file as a folder?
I want to make my own folder of grouped objects where I store my assets. I then want to be able to drag and drop it into any blender file so i can use group instance to access that folder and import ...
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Easiest way to create scene variant and manage objects?
I've designed a kitchen set with many objects and I would like to create another variant of it where about 95% of the objects will stay intact and only few will be moved/added. I also want to keep the ...
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