I'm using an older Nvidia chip that hates running viewport renders, and I need to check if changes to the materials on a few objects not far from the center of my scene are (I'm rendering a floorplan with an orthographic camera from above, so I'm looking down on objects and want to check if the d...

When Blender is installed, it creates its own copy of Python 3.x. However, I prefer to code in Python 2.x, which makes it difficult to work with newer versions of Blender. I would like to tell Blender to instead use an external installation of Python 2.x, which I already have installed on my comp...

I exported a .fbx file to Unity 3D, but it retained none of the applied textures. Is there a way to create a textured model in Blender and export it into Unity while retaining the textures, without having to export my UV layout and retexture it again within Unity?

Is it possible to add a node to the middle of, say, a material, that just contains plaintext information for people viewing the node tree? I know that it's possible to add a tooltip to frames, which are nice for organizing, but screen real estate for what I'm working on requires that the text be...

I have animations in 4 differences scenes in my Blender file that I would like to batch render. Is there a way to batch render all the scenes, instead of only the scene I am working in?

I am currently trying to make a tank to work in the game engine. I have the body roughly done and am trying to get the gun to work. Just making the barrel create a shell at a high velocity doesn't work because the shell travels to fast for the engine to detect a collision. If I have the velocity ...

After seeing How can we ensure Blender.SE doesn't share 3DGraphics.SE's fate? Are questions regarding general, or theoretic, 3D concepts on-topic? e.g. Best lighting for a specific set How to make sure the render keeps the depth perception How does the computer handle models mathematically ...

We've already had a few questions come up where people have asked 'How do I make xyz material/texture?' Do these questions count as tutorial-requests, and thus should be considered off-topic? These questions, by their nature, seem to invite too much discussion (especially when either the word '...

Since I proposed the list of possible topics that should be off-topic, it seems it has been well received and people are working with it. However, there have been several discussions in chat, numerous comments and several other posts about #1. 1. Requests for tutorials Can anyone show...

maybe im missing something.. but this should show some colours at the very least. (insert some generic python here) for i in range(40): print("something") I understand that the syntax highlighting isn't a big deal for some people, but having to run a plugin in my browser to highlight code ...

Will there be some time soon an effort to migrate blender related questions from other SE sites? I.e. Stackoverflow is full of 'em, and I'd imagine it'd be good to consolidate those into one place.

Is it possible to add a modifier to more than one mesh? For example, if I had a lot of unique objects, all of which are complex, and I wanted to apply a decimate modifier to them, would I have to do each one individually? I have tried selecting all the objects and then adding a modifier, but a...

There are some tags that are very much in need of synonymizing, but there isn't anybody on the site with enough rep to request tag synonyms yet. Until then, can we make an informal list of suggestions for tag synonyms here? That way, hopefully the mods will see and make the edits as necessary. C...

I've been working on some animations recently, and I've noticed that I'm having poor luck with certain things, namely the fact that I don't really use Blender's graph editor very well. One of the major issues that I have is pretty widespread among 3D graphics programs; when I create an animated ...

I recently started playing with Meta objects again after all these years of using Blender and largely ignoring them. However, I find the available types to be extremely limited. Are there any others available as addons, similar to how there are addons that add various mesh primitives?

I accidentally made a chat room. Is there anything I can do to delete it? I created it by migrating a discussion I was having with another user in comments to chat, creating a chat room called "Discussion between Gwenn and Kyle Willey." I never really wanted to create a separate chat room, and s...

Speaking of other sites and other 3D designers, How close to here is this proposal?

I followed the instructions in this ebook Programming Add-Ons for Blender 2.5 to setup a development environment. Currently I try to debug an installed add-on called Bloop although it seems to work, eclipse still shows many error messages like: class Mapping(object): def __init__(self, jo...

I am attempting to make a custom menu in Python that is context sensitive. Such that it's contents vary depending on which mode your currently in (e.g. Edit mode or Object mode). However, when using an if and elif statement it doesn't work, and simply doesn't show those parts of the menu. Wha...

When I add a mirror modifier it sometimes doesn't mirror correctly, giving me an overlapping mesh. How can I fix this?

I was wondering if it was possible to lock the view (similar to quad view), so that the view doesn't change if I accidentally bump the middle mouse button.