So I have been trying to rig these leaves so that way they can split open, almost like tentacles. I have all of them parented to the bones with an IK rig set up so each leaf has an IK. I already checked weight painting, and all of it is affecting the appropriate model. However, when in pose mode, after transforming one IK, when I go to move another one, it glitches out a ton and somehow affects the other transformed bones. I don't know why it is doing that, and what I should do to stop it. I added a link to a GIF of whats going on below as well. Any help is appreciated, thank you!

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I'm trying to create a smoke simulation/animation I can use as vfx overlay onto live action film. I'm going for a colored smoke affect, like a smoke bomb in situations I can't film an actual smoke bomb.

I've created two spheres with liquid simulation to generate smoke, material nodes to thicken/color some, a smoke domain, and a turbulence object. The simulation seems to work, but the render is highly pixelated. I followed several tutorials and looked at some old help posts, and tried suggestions such as increasing resolution divisions on smoke domain as well as being sure to apply scale to all objets. Even at 512 resolution divisions, the smoke is pixilated.

I'm rendering with Cycles - 64 max samples, denoise on.

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i want the rendered output (animation / image) to be square or rectangular, but the view here shows the room as a triangle. is there any way to "stretch" my camera view to make it work? Edit: its similar to a ring camera view but triangle instead of circle

When I rendered my animation the first time it was all black, but had sound. Did some googling, clicked the "sequencer" option and it fixed the video, but then it rendered without my audio. My professor is MIA and my assignment is due in a few days. Please help?

I've been trying to get these textures to work for a while and they seem to always default to a glossy black or a veryt dark version of the actual textures. The model and textures are from dark souls 3 and I fixewd the uv maps so the corresponded to the correct portion of the texture map but it still shows up darkened or just black. I was able to get the transparency setup on the hair and it only looks black in viewport so that is fine but everything else is not working properly.

It could be my node setup but im not to great at the shader part so I could have screwed up there any help would be great and I can send the .blend if needed

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I downloaded the Solus the Knight model from SketchFab for a personal project Im working on. When trying to edit any of the prebuilt animations Im only able to alter the variables around the animation (location, scale, rotation etc...) and not the animation itself. My goal was to make this animation slower and travel a bit further. Can anyone give me a solution to this issues?

Here is a video to help you visualize the problem: https://youtu.be/xXC8j84bA7Y

Firstly, I'm a beginner on Blender and like to make objects photogrammetry, which I take a 360 angle photo around a specific object by camera and then put those photos on Meshroom to export the object by its texture. Furthermore, I import the OBJ file on Blender and soo on. I use it around 2 months but I face some issues with applying the texture on Blender.

My last object goes well which all textures were applied.

That was the texture file which Meshroom exported.

So then, I started to make another photogrammetry object and here the problem begins. When Meshroom finished and the texture file get exported, I noticed that their is extra EXR file for the texture in the main texture file.

The \"texture_1002.exr\" file is the extra file.

The problem is when this extra EXR file get exported and then I import the OBJ file on Blender, their isn't texture applied as every time this file exists the texture on Blender get disappeared.

That is my object which is zero texture applied.

I want a solution from the experts on Blender or anyone who faced this problem before and solve it, for that problem please as possible.

Hello guys! I was wondering if anyone would know something about more exact approach to floor tiling from single image downloaded from manufacturer site in correct real life dimensions? So far, I know that i can use Materialize to get all of the texturing maps for a material from single image, but is there some kind of a way in Blender that would make me able to randomize tiles so that I avoid repetition? Or should I do that part of the proces in Photoshop/Illustrator? And how can I set the repeating image of a tile to correct size like 60x60 cm, 120x60 cm and so on..? Havent managed to find any kind of tutorial that would cover all of these questions in once, so there it is..

Does anyone know how to pull off the Campfire Silhouette Halo Effect in blender? (that looks like the images attached) My attempts have not been working so well. Any tips or tutorial links would be appreciated.

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Hi. I would appreciate your advice how would you create textures for mobile game asset.
I mean particualty in the same style as in the blog post by Martin Teichmann
https://www.artstation.com/blogs/mayday/Lae3/miniature-city-unreal-5
Textures consist only of albedo without any fancy PBR channels, but it's a little bit hard for me to grasp how to begin learning this technique. Ian Hubert texture style could work, but it could be helpful to receive suggestions from other people. His tutorials are called lazy for a reason. Thanks.

Picture credit to Martin Teichmann

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Hi blender community, I'm trying to create a fluid animation with bubbles. Unfortunately when adding bubbles function and linking it in a sphere Blender becomes very very laggy, literally can't do anything RAM and GPU goes almost 100%.

I'm working on a MacBook Pro M2 32GB Ram and never had and worried about these kind of issues.

Is this the wrong machine for this kind of fluid simulations? Thank you for helping.

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Kind of new to Blender (at least in the procedural material part of blender).

I'm trying to do a TPLO surgery animation, and I need to "cut the bone" on the head, but I'm using a procedural texture and it's just making a mess because of the boolean.

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I know the boolean is destructive, so my question is: is there any other way to do it? Does it have to be manually made or is there a way to do it?

I already tried:

• Split Edge modifier
• Manually fixing the topology
• Marking as sharp/seam
• Using UVs

Is there no way to do this?

This is the procedural material I'm using, just in case a picture of it is needed:

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I 'm almost sure that the specific culprit is probably the "pointiness" geometry connected to the color ramp, but I'm not sure how to fix that without having to change the texture, not sure if there is a method to "ignore" certain parts of the mesh.

I also tried assingning specifically that border another material, but it obviously doesn't work as I want it to. Could anybody point me in the right direction? Thank you in advance

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Hi, this is a frame of a gif for a scientific presentation. As you can see, you are able to see the refraction of the black planes through the lens. I don't want this feature because it is not realistic, but I don't want to change the features of the lens because it looks realistic and I need this type of refraction for other objects.

Is there any way that I can tell it that I don't want to see the refraction fro the two black/white planes? Thank you

Hi,

as seen in the screenshot, I have two models. The mesh on the left (new) is the one I have a problem with. The mesh on the right is the old one which I made but I'm redoing it since it has really bad topology.

On the right mesh you can see the circle in the middle which is cut in half. The same I want to do on the left mesh, but this time in the correct way. I tried many approaches, but I'm always ending up messing up the mesh. The right mesh looks ok in renders, but modifying it, for example using the decimate modifier, does not work because of the bad topology.

What is the best way to archieve the same results as on the right mesh but with a good topology?

Thank you for any hints. If this questions is somehow a duplicate or is missing any details, please let me know.

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Hey,

Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm a complete noob to blender and just trying to help someone out

I'm trying to make a teardrop shape with this shape cut out of it.

I've created the teardrop shape with a cube, scaled the top points to 0 and then adding a subdivision modifier. To get the larger circle I've then added a circle and used the knife project tool to try and cut out the shape but when I do this it doesn't remove a full circle (it goes like this).

I've tried this with both a cube and a plane but I'm having the same issue.

I've figured out that it's something to do with the subdivision but I'm not sure where to go from here.

If anyone could suggest any better ways to either make the teardrop shape or to cut out the shape that would be appreciated.

thank you

I have my mesh and my armature, and I want to parent them together so when I move an arm of my armature, the mesh moves as well.

Right click -> Parent -> Armature Deform With Empty Groups/Automatic Weights Hasn't done anything very useful for me... When I move the entire armature, the mesh moves as well, but body movements like arm or legs rotation in the armature don't do anything in the mesh. (see images below)

Mesh moving properly when moving skeleton
Mesh not moving properly when articulating limbs

Hello,

I'm in the rendering stage for my newest project and I've noticed that after I render there are alot of textures that seem to flicker continuously throughout the animation. I've tried the following based on my google searches but nothing seems to work.

-Flipped normals of object for all those are were facing the wrong way.

-Selecting the objects individually and clicking "merge by distance" to get rid of any double faces. When I did this the popup message at the bottom stated "removed 0 veriticies.

-Checked to make sure objects were set on auto smooth. Example

I provided a short example of the some objects flickering. In the video, if you look at the room to the left or the floor to the right, or the right plane I put in for this test, you can see that the texture seems to shimmer/flicker. I have a feeling this might relate to the lighting but I'm not sure as nothing I found on google/youtube seemed to point to this being the issue.

Also maybe important to mention, alot of the textures I use come from the add-on "Sanctus Library". I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it or not.

About every fourth render Blender crashes due to exceeding the limit of available memory, including page files

Previously, it was enough to simply optimize the project, tweak the subdivision, remove some objects, in general, reduce the amount of geometry in the frame. However, recently such methods stopped working because projects are becoming heavier and more details are being added. Sometimes an entire system freezes for several minutes; from my experience and observation, the problem I described occurs.

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Rendering is done exclusively on a video card (rtx 2060 super 8 gb) which is enough for me

The Ryzen 5 2600x processor is definitely a little old, but it gets the job done

The system is on an SSD, the blender and projects are stored on another drive, also an SSD

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Hi everyone,

sorry if this is the wrong format I dont post often, I had a university assignment recently and used blender to make my models but i had to keep my poly count low so i resorted to using limited dissolve whenever i could to remove extra vertices and have less triangles. Visually i dont see a difference (except in edit mode which didnt really matter) but i want to know if it affects the model negatively or if its bad practice or anything

I'm a beginner trying to do Proportional Editing on an object and I want to smooth some vertices. Every time I enable the circle on Proportional Editing it stays at the origin point in the middle of the scene, but I want the point to change depending on what I've selected, if that makes sense.

For example, in this video the VTubers were able to select Scale and have the origin point change to be in the center of the object. Whereas when I try to do the same, my origin point remains where it was when I first opened the program. I can't find an explanation for this in the video so does anyone here know how to fix this?

When I extrude, the new verts are locked on the Z-axis. How can I disable this behavior so the verts move freely by default? I don't want to press E+Z every time.