Unanswered Questions
4,892 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Compositing transparency challenge. Particle not part of alpha?
Hey Wicked Smaht people!
I have been working on a project that will be super imposed, in photoshop, over another image.
So, I have been trying to composite it so that the background is transparent.
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How to detect if Blender is currently rendering
I would like to hide certain parts of the UI automatically as soon as the user hits the Render Animation button.
I'm looking for something similar to ...
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How can I render a ball with equirectangular camera?
Firstly, I'm a first time user for Blender. I want a equirectangular image so that I can create a texture to use on a sphere object on my Unity project. I'm searching and trying for hours. Here what I ...
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Aperture Science portals using OSL
I am wanting to create Aperture Science style portals, And I’m aware of various compositing techniques to do this, but to make it more flexible I am thinking about using Open Shading Language. I do ...
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Can I specify default values in Blender for creating a new scene, object or material?
How can I specify default values in Blender for creating a new scene or material?
In particular certain things bother me:
-I'd like a new scene to default to no units, not meters like has been added ...
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Quickly select multiple sets of linked data objects
It's easy to select an object and all its duplicates in a scene. Just SHIFT+L and Select Linked > Object Data. But Blender will only select duplicates of an ACTIVE object, not all selected objects ...
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tris_convert_to_quads is not always working
I have a set of objects which initially come as mix of triangles,quads and ngons as you can also see in the image below:
I would like to transform them all to quads. The proposed solution that I've ...
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Greasepencil strokes disappear behind geometry when rendering
I am wokring on a project using Greasepencil to add detail to 3D geometry.
Everything looks fine in the viewport, but as soon as I render, some of the strokes that are close to 3D objects start to ...
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How to render materials in Thumbnails preview?
In 2.83, files saved with thumbnails preview is surely a wonderful feature for all of us.
As the image above, the material is obvious and identical with the files which I saved without any camera. .
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Alpha channel not responding to blur?
Here is a still of a shallow focused camera of a few flowers. As you can see the pink flower alpha blend is not responding to the blur... How do I ensure it is blurring like the rest of them?
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All my objects move together as if they are linked
I have this problem: all of my objects are linked, I don't know what I did for that to happen. Even if I add an object and I move another, it will move the object I've just inserted.
Here's my problem ...
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File Output node question
I want to describe an output file path in the File Output node were Blender will know a last variable in the file path is the name of the main .blend project file. This will save updating the File ...
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How to access new attribute types in render
It appears we can create arbitrary new attributes in blender 2.9:
https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.types.Attribute.html
This is a great new feature, but I can't figure out how to access these ...
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What's the difference between using eevee and cycles for video editing and rendering?
I understand that they are two completely different rendering engines that have their own ways of rendering the 3D world (See already answered question "How does Eevee work"), but...
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Imperfections in Eevee animation render
I am working on making animations for molecular orbitals using Blender for Linux 2.83.0 (I render on a farm). I import two OpenVDB files, apply some volume nodes on them to give them the correct ...
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