How do I make gunfire animations with blender? I never animated anything in blender except to build models. Here is a picture of my model: Is there anything I can try to make gunfire animations?

How can I cut a semi-circle out of a curved surface, such as this? As you can see from the picture, the circled area is one I'm having trouble with. I cant seem to find a way to cut a hole into a curved surface without messing up the topology. Could someone help me with this? Thank you.

I have created an animation of a cardan shaft: youtube video. I'm using transformation constraints to copy the rotation of the base joint and obviously the others are sliding into each other. I would like to modify the constraints insofar that variations in the roations-speeds can be simulated. Y...

I have an Nvidia 760 GTX and when I try to render my image with GPU compute and F12 it does not produce any output at all. When I switch to CPU render I get the following image Which is not at all what I have created When I set the viewport to render it looks like this .blend

I am new to all of this so please correct me if I am making any wrong assumptions. I have captured some 1080p video game footage with Open Broadcaster. Now I would like to edit it using the Blender video editor. First of all, if I understand this correctly, I have to set the frame rate with which...