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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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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How to add a checkbox to a nodegroup
I am making a nodegroup and in it I have an option to invert the texture but it's a slider from 1-0 and you would only even need it to be either 1 or 0 so I was wondering if there was a way of adding ...
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Particle system: How to place random objects with children?
I'm trying to place a group of trees that include an armature and leaves in a separate mesh scattered over a land. The problem is that only the tree's base is placed by the particle system, even ...
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Removing constraints & adding objects to group by python
I have a very basic script which I hope to do a couple things at once, but I am stuck at removing the constraint, and the group_link fails.
bpy.ops.constraint.delete()
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obj.group_link(group='...
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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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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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Is there a way to put a driver on Emission Count in a Hair Particle system?
I am working on a way to populate random details along a single edge (like windows doors, garage doors, ..etc), in an attempt to create semi procedural buildings. So far I have found that using a hair ...
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"Group" animated objects
I have some objects which are animated, some by keying values (mostly shape keys) and some keying location and scale. The end result is a flower growing:
I would like to easily be able to duplicate ...
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Cannot link group to a scene
My scene file is a group of buildings, all linked in from separate files, no problem. but on the new building I am working on, I have selected all objects and grouped them,as before, but when I go to ...
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Remove button from Edit mode in Materials dissapeared
I dont know if im missing something but the remove button that appears in-between assign and select doesnt show anymore.
It might be something simple but i dont know what happened.
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selection group
Imagine I have 10 objects in my scene.
I keep needing to select object 1,6 and 9 to do something.
Is there a way to name this group? Say 169.
I dont want to group/parent/put in container. This "...
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select vertices in a vertex group
I have a problem, I use a mesh of about 230,000 vertices and 500,000 faces, it contains vertex groups, suppose you have to query a vertex group database and this returns some of them that you want to ...
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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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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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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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