Questions tagged [workflow]
Questions about any workflow in Blender, or just ways to go about doing something.
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Workflow ideas for modelling an animal and putting it into a real footage [closed]
I want to make a project, creating a short Scene of a photoreal animal walking through a real shot of the Park.
Before starting and wasting a lot of time trying to figure out an efficient workflow, I ...
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How to add multiple selected assets to scene?
I'm wondering, is it possible to batch add selected assets into scene somehow? Currently only the active asset appears in scene during drag'n'drop.
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Is sub-d modeling a good workflow for low poly models with baked high poly details? [closed]
As a blender newbie I'm investigating the best way to create models for my game. I have tried low-poly character which is nice and have seen other methods like sculping.
Sculping is nice, you can work ...
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Need a efficient workflow for creating shoulder topology for a humanoid to be animated
I am trying to create a character model to be used in animation.
The issue is I need a efficient method/workflow to create a shoulder with the topology in the below picture (Circled in Blue).
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Saving Render Result in Blender File - How can I save the Render Result within a Blender file to prevent it from disappearing after reopening?
How can I save the Render Result within a Blender file to prevent it from disappearing after reopening?
Every time I render an image in Blender, the Render Result ...
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I have an animation with x, y f curves, so it creates a "path". Would it be possible to automatically rotate the object to always look forward?
I have an animation with x, y f curves, so it creates a "path". Would it be possible to automatically rotate the object to always look forward? I tried to search for the answer but found ...
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Scene and config file management best practice (a library for scenes ?)
I have a scene with assets, cameras HDR world, a cycles rendering and rendering presets, and I would like to use it as kind of a template file.
This way I could use this scene in several files knowing ...
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Flower bend difficulty
I have a simple flower on a flat plane. I want to bend the flower along the z axis, so it folds to the inside but limited to a certain point (like the image). The problem is, I want this limit to have ...
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Object flags per render Layer and multi renderLayer workflows
I have been building my own pipeline on top of Blender for a few months to make my own short film and am at a point where I think I need to take a real deep dive into blender dev. I come from a vfx ...
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Batch baking geometry nodes
I have geometry nodes with simulation zones on a lot of objects. To enable remote rendering I want to bake the geometry nodes for each object (yay blender 4.1!).
Is there a way to bake them all in one ...
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Can Particle System caches be accessed directly by Geometry Nodes?
My goal is to instantiate objects on the points of a particle system.
Right now, my workflow is:
tweak the parameters of the particle system
export it as an Alembic cache (point cloud?)
import it ...
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what is proper workflow for modeling huge structure
main goal
I'm currently working on my hobby project to recreate colleage building.
And my main goal is to make real size building and export it to unreal engine so that player can enter the building ...
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How to turn off the (auto)terminal output while rendering blender file in headless mode?
I'm using blender rendering with my own python script in headless mode. Some how when blender rendering in headless mode, it automatically print the rendering process it went through. The terminal ...
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Add Bevel to curves when using a solidify modifier for thickness on a imported .svg logo
I have an imported logo .svg file that is in curves. I have eliminated the top faces by using Fill mode: Back.
I now want to add thickness inside the logo itself, so I have used a solidify modifier.
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Remove top Faces still using curves, is it possible?
I have a logo in .svg format that I imported into Blender. I've extruded the text upwards. However, I would like to know if it's possible to remove the top face of the logo. Is this doable while ...
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Force Viewport Visibility to Respect Render Visibility
I use the viewport render to do all my look dev, and lighting, so I make things enabled or disabled based on what I need for that render layer/scene. But of course when I go to actually render the ...
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Zbrush Workflow in Blender?
I've decided to swith from Zbrush and start sculpting in Blender instead. I do props for games and my workflow in Zbrush was:
Create a base blockout mesh in 3D software
Split hard edges into ...
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Is it possible to double click a .glb file in windows and have it open in Blender?
I am a game developer and when I'm working, I go in and out of hundreds of different .glb files (sometimes .obj, sometimes .fbx) and it is very tedious to go through the import/export process every ...
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Glass modeling workflow?
So this might be a niche question without a good answer, but I have an awful lot of trouble modeling things that use a lot of transparent materials like environments with lots of glass. It would help ...
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how to get 2d bounding box(x_min,x_max,y_min,y_max values) from IndexOB output of RenderLayer node in Blender compositor?
I'm doing synthetic data generation for AI training. I need to render lots of images a scene, and giving the 2d bounding box value of each object in the image(assuming that all object in the scene ...
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How to save Depth layer with sky?
When I try to save it normally I get white image. Somebody advised to use normalize node and it works. But if sky is present (infinite depth) it doesn't normalize properly. I tried playing with map ...
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Correct Sculpting Workflow for Animating Mouth and Eyelids / Human (and Animals)
I've recently tried to sculpt a Human Mesh. I was wondering, however, to approach the mouth/eyelids part of the head.
I want to animate this mesh and I will obviously Retopo the whole thing. The ...
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Bevel the edges of a cube and then add new face to the top face of the cube breaks the topology
In Blender 4.0.2, on the default cube, if I want to add a face using the Inset Faces tool in Edit Mode on the top face of the cube, then select two edges of the cube and bevel them, I get a nice ...
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how to move objects away from each other by the same distance?
I have multiple objects that I want to align them on the Y axis by the same distance.
How to achieve this?
Closest thing I got to it is using the randomize function, but it scatters them at a random ...
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Transfer UV data from one mesh to another .blend
I want to copy a mesh's UV data (including 3 UV channels) to the same mesh but in another .blend.
Both meshes are identical in vertex count.
Is there a quick solution?
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Help understanding selection functionality or is this wrong?
This is maybe more a workflow question, but I find myself consistently frustrated with Blender with the following workflow. Please follow these instruction precisely to encounter what I'm talking ...
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Question about making a Five Nights at Freddy's character
I'm pretty new to Blender, but I'm trying to create some Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) characters for a project of mine.
My question is: Should I create an endoskeleton first? And then use that ...
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Blender File getting too large after workflow
i'm currently working on a visualisation for an event company.
They want different spaces to be shown to a pending client. For this purpose i've built a file that i can create all these spaces in, but ...
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Cant find "project individual elements"
I tried everything but the "project individual elements" command still doesn't appear.
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Transform tab, increasing dimensions decimal precision
I realized I left out a few details and overcomplicated this. I'm working in inches which only has 1 decimal place in the dimensions tab and I'm trying to add more decimal places.
I'm trying to get ...
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How can I quickly place assets on a grid?
I'm currently learning Blender and have taken on a personal project of building a city to keep pushing myself. I'm currently designing generic buildings and other assets of varying sizes and shapes to ...
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How do I open a new file on blender 4.0
I upgraded to the latest 4.0 version recently but now everytime I try File->New->General it just brings up the last blend file I worked on! I want a new blank file. If I had wanted the last one ...
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3D procedural material workflow
I’m a product designer getting into blender to do product renders and animations and being having issues with procedural materials workflow.
I recently bought Lance Phans’s wood shader and have been ...
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Character all wrong in armature
I made this character for fun but I can't fix it in armature and when I put it in automatic weights and rotate a bone it looks all wrong. I've already tried to fix it in weight paint but without ...
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The process of creating a complete character, including animation
I have a simple low poly 3d character.
I would like to use some method to add more polygons to the head area to create more detail to the head area (then sculpting modeling). Which network ...
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Efficiently create a big set of object [closed]
I am creating a low poly forest for my project. I want to use a big library of assets (that I am making).
I figured that what works best for me so far is to create branches separately from the trunks ...
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Custom user path?
I remember watching a Blender Today sometime last year where Pablo was showing off a new feature where you could change the location of your user path, but for the life of me I can’t find that option ...
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Ball squeeze through pipes
I am trying to make simulation similar to this (around 5sec)
https://www.pinterest.es/pin/573997915020314265/
and i have this issue that the ball wont come trough the pipe like on the picture. Any ...
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Way to subdivide beveled face automaticaly
Im beveling simple cuboid and in order to create edge loops after that i must manually reconstruct some of the faces. Im just a beginner so maybe i missed something in documentation. What i want after ...
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Functions to remove extra faces & fix normals? | Marvelous Designer FBX to Blender Workflow
[edit] Here's the project file:
While I realize that the answer may be staring me in the face, I've also sunk a lot of time into this with no real progress.
I'm working on using custom Marvelous ...
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New in Baking. From High to Low mesh
I have followed several tutorials on baking normals onto a low poly mesh.
This is my High Mesh:
This is my Low Mesh:
I am also using a Cage encompassing both the low and high poly mesh:
I turned on ...
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Creating wrinkles on a shirt
I created a base shirt using cloth physics , and have been experimenting a few methods to create wrinkle ( edit mode , procedural nod set up , normals texture painting ) but my results are not very ...
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Move to next/prev marker keystroke not working in Blender 3.6.4
I just downloaded 3.6.4 and have discovered that Ctrl-Shift-[left arrow|right arrow] no longer moves the timeline between markers. Is this something other people have noted, and is there a fix?
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The phenomenon where a model created in Blender does not load in VroidMobile
You've successfully converted a model created in Blender to a VRM file and uploaded it to VroidHub. However, the model isn't displaying in VroidMobile on your smartphone.
VroidHub and VroidMobile ...
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Procedural material orientation
I'm new here on Blender, so I create my procedural wood material and I applied it on four separate objects. I'm wondering if there's a way do give a different orientation on each object for the same ...
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Can you Move an Annotaion Layer to a different Annotation Data-Block
I want to know if there is a way to Move an annotation layer from one Annotation data-block to another
Move this Annotation Layer
In This Annotation Layer
To this annotation layer
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How to model coiled up cables
Blender to the rescue?
After working pretty extensively with Solidworks for 2 years, I was tasked to model some realistic looking coiled up cables for solar panels. SW is definitely not made for that ...
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What is the correct way to make an asset that I use in a scene?
I'm fairly new to Blender. I'd like to be able to easily make assets that I will reuse, while working on a scene. (Assets could be models, but also materials etc.) I want to do this non-destructively, ...
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Why does my AO bake have hard edges?
I'm trying to learn how to sculpt high poly and bake into a low poly game ready mesh. I'm at the stage where I need to bake an AO map, but mine doesn't look like other examples I see. Here's what it ...
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Use Shader, Objects etc. from other Projects [duplicate]
Just a simple question.
Is there a way to save shaders/object in blender?
Or just browse other projects and import stuff into other Projects.
I know i could open a older project, copy shader & ...
