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| Elaboration on question:  To elaborate I want to have a wave pattern go along this spiral. The wave pattern needs consistency (i.e. currently in some sections of the spiral the wave pattern seems to … | 
| I would like to know if there is a way to orbit my viewport around a selected object in Blender, instead of orbiting around the 3D cursor, without having to manually set the 3D cursor to the object … | 
| I would like to detect if a cube is in the right half of the camera’s view:    I’m trying to do this with geometry nodes. Here’s what I have so far:    (Bottom half of this image)  I normalize the cube’s … | 
| I’ve opened a normal map in my Image Texture, the node was set to Color Space > Linear, and it doesn’t seem to make any difference with Non-Color. Without going into too many details, can someone … | 
| My freestyle renders randomly have these glitches in them (circled in red). From what I can tell they appear sometimes where there is geometry in the background that crosses lines in the foregroud – I’… | 
| I rendered my animation in 30FPS then found it hard to match the narrative exactly.  So I like to speed up some parts and slow down others, then I need enough frames to do so.  So now I like to re-… | 
| I’m ultimately trying to make a material that emulates how a fan looks. I know how to make a wave texture, and a circular wave texture, but neither of those have all the waves come to a focal point in … | 
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| Often I want to just point the camera to an object or a specific area in my scene to get an idea of how it’ll look in the render. What’s the most painless hassle-free way to do this in blender?    A … | 
| I have a MacBook Pro. Since it’s a laptop, it does not have a number pad. It only has the numbers at the top of the keyboard. Can I emulate the number pad so that I can access the hot keys for top … | 
| I currently have version 2.74. How do I update to version 2.76? I do not see any links in the UI to update my version of Blender | 
| I am trying to import an FBX file from Unity into Blender. Does anybody know how to do that? | 
| Sometimes the 3d view rotation using the 3rd mouse button starts to rotate around an unusual point that is not very convenient.  I don’t know why it starts doing this, but it usually starts when I’m … | 
| The Blender UI elements are incredibly small by default on high resolution screens on Windows (15″ UHD screen).  I found the Preferences -> System -> DPI setting which can be set up to 144.  This … | 
| I try to set up an image as background for a basic blender tutorial,  but it isn’t visible.    This is the image I try to have as background: | 
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| Ok, so I’ve written an addon that allows me to import an image as a plane, and then subdivides that plane based on the dimensions of the image. Now though, I need the script to select all of the … | 
| I created a simple model with a semi transparent (glassmorphism) look.  I exported it as GLTF and used it in the web using three.js.  Problem    Since Glass BSDF is not supported I use Principled BSDF but … | 
| I must premise that I am a complete noob when it comes to blender. I come from rendering in V-Ray and wanted to give blender a shot.  I need to make renders of materials composed of various layers in … |