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Is there a way to make an object not-deleteable?

I'd like to have an object that has some sort of special property so that it can't be deleted by accident. for example: if I press X, it will not delete this object but will instead deselect it or ...
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Custom Renderer as an Add-on

I have been writing a custom raytracing renderer in C++ and I would like to natively integrate it with Blender 2.8 as a custom renderer. I know that this is possible, as I have seen many projects (for ...
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How do I render Big Buck Bunny in the year 2020?

I downloaded the .zip of project files for Big Buck Bunny (from http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/blender/ ). There are 3 directories: 2d, 3d, post. I loaded up 2d/00_00.blend into blender ...
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'image as plane' is always low quality than the original image

How can I render 'image as plane' with the same quality as original image? The quality of image is always blurred and has a faint color. This is how I did it. (*Increased the resolution of the ...
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Cloth simulation drive rig rendering issues

Goal: Create rig with springy bones for i.e. auto belly fat simulation. Issue: When rendering I'm unable to see spring effect on bones that are driven by objects with is driven by cloth simulation. ...
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Point cloud animation

I have around 5500 .ply files, which amount to about 7 GB of point cloud data; each file is one frame of animation. Is there any feasible way of importing this into blender for processing? I am ...
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Fluid simulation only shows the domain

I was making a fluid simulation, but when I try to bake it, it only bakes the domain. The fluid doesn't appear from the inflow. Do you know why? Thanks. This is what appears when i render
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What exactly happens when Blender 'Synchronizes objects' at render time?

In effort to reduce render times between each frame (Eevee renderer), I've retopo-ed and made sure there are least amount of polygons possible, but I've reached the point where I can't sacrifice any ...
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How can I properly wrap complex objects?

I'm having problems with the Shrinkwrap modifier. I wanna wrap this dragon on the objects surface. But instead I get this :( I've tried with Curve too... Can anyone help me? Thanks... And sorry ...
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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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Strange light from glass

I'm doing a scene with a room with a table. On the table I have some wine glasses, but I get this strange light from some of them. The glass to the left looks OK, but the other are not OK. It seems ...
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Can you link render settings across all scenes so they can all be changed at once?

I have multiple scenes to render and in my "master" scene I have set up the render nodes to output the render of all scenes. This way I only have to hit the Render Animation button once and all of the ...
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How can I render a proper normal pass for smoke in cycles

I would like to render a normal pass for smoke in Cycles like this one: I'm aware of this method mentioned in Blenderartists but the result is far from the result needed to relight in post (via ...
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get radius of mesh primitive

I would like to ask whether there is a way of getting the radius of a sphere (mesh primitive) after it has been added. In other words, does Blender somehow distinguish between different shapes? What ...
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Stop animation render after current frame

For long running animation renders, is there a way to stop the render once the current frame is finished? I leave my machine rendering over night, and when I return the next day, I want to stop the ...

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