I was watching a tutorial video (Which you can find here) and at the 18:00 mark he creates a loop cut, then appears to press 'S' (scale) and mashes a few other keys that aren't displayed and the loop cut suddenly becomes completely horizontal and no longer follows the contours of the mesh. What ...

I just got started with blender and my main interest is to use code to generate 3d images. I like what I see, but I do not like the fact that I cannot just use any library I want. Usually, when using other python distributions ( conda for example) I would use the following trick in the terminal...

I couldn't figure out how to bend one side of a planar mesh like the edges on that side follow a circle. I also want this bending effect to fade smoothly towards the other edge. It is like square(projected) piece cut out from a sphere but I want to control the fading effect and I also want one si...

I am facing difficulties to use Poly Reducer script in current Blender version (v2.71). When I selecting my mesh Edit Mode, I do not see any "Script Window" options inside Mesh menu. I also found in Blender Wiki that this script is included only in versions 2.42a - 2.46. Unfortunately v2.46 is no...

I have made a video composed of several videos with transitions etc, but they all have a 80px black strip on the top and bottom, and I'd like to remove it (so that the video's height is 160px less). How do I crop the video?

I've been trouble-shooting a fluid simulation and something that kept sticking in my throat was that my Fluid World scene size was set to 0.5 meters when my domain was actually much larger than that. It's my understanding that that domain size controls the displacements and iterations but the co...

I've been working with the VSE for a while and everything was fine. But all of the sudden, when I play the preview the sound doesn't play. I think I must've disabled it somewhere, but I can't manage to find the place. It doesn't matter if I start a new project, sound doesn't play so I think it mu...

My Blender to Unity work flow includes a texture baking process once a model has been finished. So my model will be built in Blender and textured with multiple textures and once I'm happy with the rendered result I finally bake the textures and shadows onto a 2nd UVTexure. My problem is that to...

Sorry for the extremely basic questions; I just started Blender. I'm trying to use the short cuts via my number pad to use the views, Left, Right, Back, etc. It isn't working, though. It only works when I click on it. Instead, these little boxes are lighting up instead. How can I make it so...

Is it possible for Blender to automatically add every translation or scale that I performed, no matter what I performed it on and then display it? For example, if I moved a point on the X axis by 1 unit, deselected and reselected and moved it again by 1 unit, it would display that I moved a tot...