Some answers are including images just to show a menu-item. eg: original post I'm concerned that doing this too much makes posts harder to update (if blender changes), where: 3D View Header -> Mesh -> Clean up -> Fill Holes ... would do just as well. My question is, should we discourage u...

I was looking at spirograph drawings and I was wondering if Blender has any way of extruding along such a path so that it could be turned into a mesh object. Here's a link to some spirograph pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=spirograph&num=100&safe=off&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS511US512&espv=210&es...

I want to render every Nth frame of an animation, in this case every 12th frame. This way I can play back the animation at 2fps and see if everything is going correctly. I'm a real novice with Blender Python and cobbled this together: import bpy for f in range(startframe,endframe,NthFrame): ...

I'm new in this and I'm working on the gingerbread man tutorial. My problem is that sometimes I don't find some buttons and I would like to know if there is a tool to looking for them. Thank you. Andrea

For example, 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 addon that allows these parameters to be edited later on? If not, ho...

This may sound stupid idk but my message sensor can't seem to read the message sent by one of my actuators? I have a plane which plays its animation when a key is pressed and also sends a message to my human with the subject "Earthquake". My human has a message sensor too with the same subject. I...

Upon running my character immediately does its assigned task but when I press something for another object, that is my building shaking, my characters get pushed by the walls and will stop from walking. Why does it stop when it's sensor is always?

Following along in tutorials I see the blur filter being used. I am using Blender 2.69 and I can't locate it visually or even with a search. Actually, there is no "Filters" category at all. Do I have to download something to get it? Any help would be appreciated Many thanks, --Rob

I would like to bake normals (and potentially othe rparams later) of an object via python code I came up with the following code but i fails on the last line saying that it cannot find a valid image to bake to (I use the standard blender scene (with the cube) I suspect this is because the image...

I have since yesterday a SpaceNavigator (from 3Dconnection). I got it to work with the demo apps (xcube and xvalue). But it doesn't do anything with Blender. I did not find any posts about it except some "it will be possible in 2.48" or "there's a plug-in for 2.46" (should I use it? Because I...

I was used to press the play button for a preview of a rendered animation , all of a sudden (v2.7) there is an audio button which opens a file dialog. Am I supposed to add all images into the VSE every time?

I'm trying to export basic shapes from Blender into XNA. We have gravity working in XNA at the moment, but relies on the Y-coordinate being up. So when we export from Blender with the Z-coord up, it either falls the wrong way, or is facing the wrong direction. We would like the shape (pictured) t...

What are some practical uses for the quaternion? Why not just use the X, Y, and Z axis rotation values? I have no idea how to manipulate it intelligently.