Blender Weekly Newsletter - Monday, June 30, 2014

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Top new questions this week: Stop rendering each time camera is moved or anything else is modified For some reason I managed to make the camera render every time I move it to a new position, move an object, modeling or whatever. I want the camera to ONLY render when I hit F12. What have I done … rendering camera   asked by Lars 6 votes answered by John Burrill 8 votes How to add a normal map texture and a diffuse texture on a model in cycles? When I add a normal map texture in cycles I do this - How to combine the normal map texture with a diffuse|color texture? I don't have much knowledge about the nodes in cycles and I have no idea … cycles texturing nodes   asked by Vladimir 5 votes answered by gandalf3 3 votes How to get mouse position in a window with Python? I want to detect if the mouse is in certain area of the 3d View, so I can display a custom menu when it will be in the left top corner, over the view name ("User Persp" etc). python interface viewport   asked by PLyczkowski 5 votes answered by lucblender 3 votes Shortcut key for smooth shading In edit mode I can press W to bring up the specials menu, then D to shade smooth. Is there any shortcut key for shade smooth in object mode? I know I can assign a key, but wanted to know if there … viewport shortcut   asked by David 5 votes answered by gandalf3 5 votes How does the GPL apply to code in Blender files? (e.g. Drivers) It's known that any Python script running inside Blender must be GPLv2+ compatible, but what about driver expressions? Does this mean all my Blend files have to be GPL as well? What are the … python scripting   asked by ideasman42 4 votes answered by ideasman42 4 votes Python 2.x class in 3.x I need to use a class written in Python 2.x, but get tons of errors in Blender 2.71 Python 3, any ways around this problem? python   asked by Gilles 3 votes answered by Garrett 5 votes Mixing forward and inverse kinematics So I've made a simple, yet effective human rig with both arms and legs configured to use inverse kinematics (with an IK constraint, pole and target all set up). This works fine for me and does the … rigging   asked by Setzer22 3 votes answered by sambler 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: RC 2.7 Blender/Volumetric Shading Cycles I went onto blender.org and saw a Release Candidate for Blender 2.7 came out. In the description it seems the long awaited volumetric shading in cycles has been released. From what it sounds like is … cycles shaders   asked by user2593789 1 vote answered by noemisDE 1 vote Import SketchUp ".skp" files I am new with Blender. I changed to it because now I am using Ubuntu. Previously on Windows I used to work with SketchUp, and I still have many projects, that I would like to import *.skp into Blender … import file-format compatibility   asked by Gediminas Jeremiah Gudelis 11 votes answered by G M 2 votes Can you answer these? Makehuman pose broken between 2.69 and 2.7x I just upgraded from Blender 2.69 to 2.71. I loaded my previous save file and found, to my dismay, that my pose no longer displayed properly. I'm using Makehuman version 1.0.0. It appears that FK … makehuman   asked by TurtlesAreCool 1 vote How do I get my layers back? My layers are gone and I'm in global view. How do I get them back? I've tried the numbers, shift + numbers, I'm in global view and nothing works. Please help! interface layers   asked by Jill 1 vote Blender script works differently in/out of for loop My goal is to automatically load a MakeHuman model and apply a CMU mocap file on it. This works perfectly fine in Python (using interactive window), but when I try to do it as a batch script, I get a … python scripting armature transforms makehuman   asked by user1238826 1 vote

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