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Control Cycles/Eevee material nodes and material properties using python?
How can I define the different properties of an Cycles/Eevee material? Such things as glossy, glass, diffuse, RGB-color, emissive via python scripting?
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How to assign a new material to an object in the scene from Python?
How can I assign a new material to an object in the scene via Python?
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PyNodes, the bare basics
I know it's a very new thing (post 2.4 era anyways) but there seems to be very little documentation and examples for PyNodes in general, and the little there is doesn't seem to work in latest SVN (...
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How to set a background using the cycles render engine with the API
I'm just getting started with the Blender API, and I'm trying to set the background texture using the API.
In the GUI, I do the following:
Choose the Cycles render engine ...
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Graph bar with elevation/height values
How can I get a graph legend that automatically gets my maximum and minimum elevation from an object?
Basically, I have an object that dinamically paints other with waves. I have a node setup that ...
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Accessing image texture uv channel connected to Cycles material Image Texture
Trying to figure out how to read the uv channel used by an Image Texture input from Python. So, in effect, how to access the "Vector", then grab the attribute name:
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Copy node tree from one material to another in cycles using python
I have two cycles materials (say source and target). I want to copy the Shader Nodetree from the source material to the target material after clearing any currently present node tree(s) in the target ...
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Any way of serializing Blender cycles materials data?
I am searching of ways to serialize Blender Cycles materials to files using Python. But as of now I've found no such ways.
Maybe by writing the data of the materials to files but how can I do that? ...
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Change field of a node in a group
I am trying to make a script that will change the value of a specific node within a specific node group. I have seen from this question how to target a node within a material, but I can't see how to ...
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Setting all default_values of nodes to 0 does not result in expected black output
What I am trying to accomplish?
I am iterating over all nodes of one named material from the output node and going backwards and want to set all inputs.default_value to 0.
I use the Code from ...
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copy linked materials nodes to local material
DISCLAIMER: I rewrite my post upon the latest success to not flood my own post with already solved parts so I left only the part that really is still not working...
PROBLEM:
I need to replace all ...
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Example of creating and setting a Cycles material node with the Python API [duplicate]
I'm trying to set the properties of a Cycles material, which is linked to a Plane object, using the API.
So far this is what I'...
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Same Video on each face, but with different time delay?
iam looking for a way to - like the title says - i want to put the same video on each face, but with different time delay.
In other words, i want to create a kind of videowall.
i found THIS:
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Extracting a text string info (character's indices) to use it as a material mask
I think an image can say more than words sometimes... :)
The idea is to use a different color from the color ramp for each character in the string.
It's related to this question
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Getting the image of a texture node that feeds into a node group
I have a Cycles material node group like this:
I can access the user-specified color (red) like this:
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