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How do I make multiple Blender objects into one?

Situation I have obtained some blender files & licences for 3d models of transit vans and some trucks. Currently, when I export these objects to .obj files they are rather large, take a while to render and look to have been built in…
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Creating Inky-looking characters in Blender

I'm involved in a project to do with ink animation and experimentation. I found this incredible piece of animation: Chinese Ink Style Animation I originally thought this was some sort of After Effects compositing (is it even possible in AE?!), but…
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How to edit Parameters for an Object after it is created?

When you first add a cylinder, you have the option to change the number of vertices, etc, but once you do anything else in blender, it seems you no longer can edit those parameters. Is there a setting anywhere or an add-on that allows these…
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How can I create a water material in Cycles?

I'm creating a scene with large amounts of water that will be readily visible, containing refraction and at various angles. The scene is an indoor long-course swimming pool, about 50 meters, all of which would be seen by a camera above 5 meters…
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poll() failed, context incorrect? - Example: bpy.ops.view3d.background_image_add()

I keep on getting context errors in the Blender Python API. I don't understand the issue of the context in the API, how do I know which is the correct context? Thanks!
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How may I create a continuously looping animation?

I would like to create a continuously looping animation that repeats itself constantly and without my help (I do not want to create one animation and then copy and paste it over and over again). A good example would be the rotational movement of a…
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How to make rig that reacts to gravity or seem to behave physically correct?

Here's a nice, strangely familiar hat. It's rigged with three bones. Let's say I want the hat to fall like a real hat would, and bounce around when the character which it's attached to moves. I could always do it manually, but that's no fun. Is…
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How to reduce vertex count on a mesh

I need a way to fix this mesh. It has way too many faces and when I import the .stl file to other programs it gives me a broken polygon message. I want to 3D print this object in matter control once I fix the problem.
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Copy material to another object?

I saw a video where the person copied a material from one object to another (Cycles). How can I accomplish this?
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What are the differences between Orthographic and Perspective views?

In risk of being off topic for broadness and discussioness... but I think in the end it's a question that can't be avoided. Can someone please finally explain the difference and why we need both?
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Why are some faces in my mesh darker?

While rendering a mesh with smooth shading on, I get a dark region/shadow on certain faces. The effect is more evident when smooth shading is applied to a mesh containing ngons, with the ngons turning black when rendered. The blackening effect is…
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Pose Mode: How to reset transformed armature to its rest position?

I got a problem with pose mode. Like the heading says, I haven't found yet a possibility to reset the already transformed armature so that it exactly does look like the rest position (though it is still in pose position). Is there any kind of…
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Is there an easy way to align two objects on a specific axis?

Other than manually typing in locations, is there an easy way to align objects on an axis like you would in Visio?
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How do I measure a distance between two points?

I would like to measure the distance between the yellow points in this image: How can I do it? My goal is to cut the cube using the plane, but I must set a precise distance between the plane and the square's corner.
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How to unlink a linked-duplicate?

All is in the question, we can duplicate object with SHIFT+D but also with ALT+D, which is quite handy, because as you know every changes done on a linked duplicate object will be repeated on others linked objects ("same objects"). I've used it as…
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