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How do I shrinkwrap an object to a curved surface cleanly and efficiently?
I have a sphere and two eyes. I want to shrinkwrap the eyes onto the sphere's surface cleanly.
The only way I know how to shrinkwrap ANYTHING is via the Shrinkwrap modifier, which crumples up the ...
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Blender 3.0 geometry nodes - how to edit vertex normals?
One of my favorite techniques in Blender is editing vertex normals to make stylized trees like in this article: link
The technique works in a nutshell like this:
create leaves texture and model in ...
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How to get vertex coordinates after modifier in python?
simple scenario:
I have a cube with a wave modifier and I would like to get the vertex positions with python.
I'm trying with bpy.types.MeshVertex.co, but it gives ...
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How do I make a pulsating light effect material?
I wanna make a material or animation that can do something similar to this video on multiple different points on a surface. But with different speeds and distortions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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How to get vertex coordinates after modifier in Python in Blender 2.80? [duplicate]
I have a mesh with armature modifier. Is there any efficient way to read its vertices coordinates with modifiers accounted in Blender 2.80?
So far the only way I found is to duplicate the object, ...
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Retopologize mesh to achieve uniform face size
I am trying to use Blender to remesh a vtk/stl file to create uniform face size- I have failed using paraview, meshlab and MIRTK tools- all result in substantial errors on remeshing!
I am very new to ...
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Gradually flatten overlapping vertices on XY-Plane
I would like to connect plane with ocean modifier to a flat plane.
I m thinking to keep an x-distance overalapping and i would like to apply a weighted-average that will start moving gradually all ...
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Solidify Modifier solidifying the wrong way for only a few vertices
I am touching up a Jack O'Lantern that I made last year. I put the mouth back and manually de-solidified the thing. After I made my adjustments to the mouth and other minor things I wanted to make it ...
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Self-intersecting geometry removal
I'm working on a number of icons for 3-D printing. I'm having an issue where I've traced out the object as linked edges and vertices, and then gone through the following process:
Convert to curve.
In ...
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Push vertices outside of other object/setting ceiling to location of vertices
I am looking for a way of creating a sort of Z ceiling for the position of my vertices, but cannot find anything by searching. I am most likely not knowledgeable enough to know what keywords to search ...
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A cube appears when I generate a skin
Consider:
I’m trying to make a tree model, but when I generate a skin a cube appears. I tried redoing it, but it didn’t work.
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Solidify Modifier: how can I remove the inner mesh in a complex artifacts?
First of all I want to specify my final goal: use the Solidify Modifier in order to create a cage.
I think that my workflow, used since now,
Duplicate my low poly
Alt + S with the new mesh (i.e. ...
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Why is the subsurf modifier not creating smooth geometry?
I'm totally new to Blender. Excuse me, if my problem is dumb.
I'm trying to model something rather simple from a mesh. A handle. When I try to merge vertices of those two highlighted faces, I'm ...
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Subdivide surface based on intersection
I have a question. The situation is as follows:
So there is a sphere and a prism going straight through the sphere.
Now I would like to:
Add vertices and edges to the sphere mesh along the line of
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How do I finish cutting out this wheel well?
So I've been studying shrinkwrap modifiers, I created a forming block, the shap I want to "shrinkwrap" to, I created the basic car form over it, cut out some doors by removing faces, now I'm trying to ...
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