Lets say I only want a block of the timeline to be rendered to an animation of RAW AVI. How would you do that I can't find a setting? Thanks guys!

How can I make a long strand of bones without having to extrude each one? Here is what I'm trying to accomplish:

For example things might happen in an animation for a few seconds like a flag starting to wave etc. etc. that you don't want anyone to see but you want recording to start 5 seconds into the animation but still have the effects of the wind (or whatever affects) as if that five seconds prior was re...

I made a rig for a model of a dragon and for some reason, when I go into Edit mode, some of the bones disappear: I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I created the rig using the standard release of 2.69, but now I'm using the standard version of 2.70. Here is my blend file.

I made a big mistake: I spent a lot of time building up my armature for my dragon model and then, after I was all done and started to refine it, I realized that the bones from the pelvis out to the end of the tail were pointing the wrong way -- they need to have their heads pointing the other dir...

I have used a third party add on script to do this but it is throwing an error: "AttributeError: Mesh object does not contain faces attribute". Complains about line "for face in object.data.faces:" It was originally written for blender 2.57 and apparently no longer works. Is there some other add ...

Whenever I download a .blend from someone all of the windows and settings are the way they have left them as it is saved in the file. It takes way to long to rearrange every window and toolbar to the way it is by default. Is there any tool or shortcut that can reset the UI to blenders default and...

I'm trying to find the settings that allow me to see longer preview animations on the Blender 3D grid that you see when you demo by pressing Alt+A. At this point it's only 250 frames long by default that I can get. Is there any way to make this longer? Thanks guys

Whenever I disable "Load UI" before I load a file, all the text characters on the screen are totally unreadable. This happens: Every time I load a file this way, even after rebooting my computer Even when I open files I made myself Here are my computer specs: MacBook Pro 17" (model MA092L...

Is it possible to iterate through particles like vertices of a mesh, to kill some? I'm trying to remove overlapping particles of still droplets.

I watched a tutorial and at one point, the person moved their objects up the Z axis, but the origins did NOT move! I watched the screencast keys, but I still can't figure out how it was done. Any ideas?

Okay so in this case I'll be honest I'm looking for a quick fix in an animation that will still look OK. Right now I am using the sun as a lightpoint and it looks like sky and a flat plane (not realistic). I was thinking of just using a mountain background image for the world. I've done that t...

It is possible? or it is just a GLSL feature?

So there are blank layers, lets say I create another scene there, how do I switch to that totally different scene during rendering? Thanks guys?

I would like to have plants, rocks, sticks and other debris scattered randomly on the ground in my scene, but I don't want to have to place it all there by hand. Is there an easy way to do this in Blender?