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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Is it possible to group several objects and then manipulate them (scale, rotate, translate) as one?
I've never been quite able to figure out how groups work in Blender (at least not since 2.5/6x). Is it possible to group several objects and then manipulate them (scale, rotate, translate) as one?
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Array a Group of objects?
Is it possible to array a group of objects?
For example, if I have three objects in a group, (I want to keep them as separate objects) is it possible to easily duplicate them as if I pressed AltD ...
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Group objects in blender [duplicate]
There´s a way of grouping SVG objects in blender like in Illustrator or Inkscape, where when I have to move the object the entire group move´s on together, without having to append that object to the ...
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How to easily organise your Blender scene?
When making complex scenes there should be some kind of "folders" (i.e. like in Adobe Photoshop, layer management) in scene outliner, that can group objects together - but this feature seems not ...
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How can I organize the outliner with groups?
When I learned the basics of Maya awhile back, they taught us that we could organize and clean the outliner window with groups. Anyway, it doesn't seem that I can hide multiple objects into one ...
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How to remove one of the group inputs
I'm using Blender 2.74 and trying to follow an online video tutorial on creating "sun" (presenter is using version 2.63). The problem I'm facing is that the presenter just selected a few nodes in the ...
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Rotate (group) objects outwards on spherical particle system?
I'm trying to create a mini-world with (among other things) trees on it. I have created an icosphere, modeled several trees and put them in a group.
Next I added a particle system to the sphere, and ...
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Selecting groups in blender
How do I select groups? I don't want to select an object and then its siblings, but I want to see a list of groups and I want to select a group like that. Is that possible?
The reason I don't want to ...
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Dupligroups and Snapping
When I import dupligroups from an object .blend into my master .blend scene, I can move the transform of the dupligroup parent fine. However, I really miss the ability to snap to other scene geometry....
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How can a rigged model be used multiple times in a scene?
I've created a rigged model and created and grouped the model and rig.
I would like to add it multiple times in a single scene. I used File > Append selected the group, made it local L and created a ...
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Remove relationship between two objects
I have an dae file which I import into blender version 2.76. There is one pool cue stick in this file. There seems to be a relationship(shown by relationship line)between cue stick and another point ...
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How to use multiple particle types in a particle system?
I created a particle system, duplicating a red sphere. However I want to also have yellow and orange spheres (already have them in another layer) in the same particle system. So I want to know how to ...
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Cannot keyframe visibility in outliner "Groups" view
I need to animate visibility for a large number of objects which are separated into groups. Typically to toggle visibility one clicks the eye and camera icons in the outliner and presses "I" over them....
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How to retrieve the objects of a group
How to get all of the objects assigned to a group in Blender Python?
for group in bpy.data.groups:
# How to get all objects in group?
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Adding Labels, Angles, Domains on Objects for Making Math Models
I am very new to Blender. I have been looking for a program to create a model for visualizing different math concepts. Blender looks promising as it provides the possibility for not only this, but ...
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