Blender Weekly Newsletter - Monday, September 29, 2014

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Top new questions this week: Free division of a cube? I'm sorry if that's an obvious question (it probably is) but I'm new to blender and I couldn't find a solution to my problem so far. What I'm trying to achieve is divide a cube into two unregular … modeling   asked by Adrian 6 votes answered by user2859 6 votes Lens specs of smartphones for camera tracking in Blender I've been trying to track a footage taken by my Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 (GT-n5100) tablet. It has a good 5 mp camera and I tracked the footage well. But the problem arises at the time of solving the … camera tracking   asked by Sachin Borkar 5 votes answered by cegaton 5 votes How to select a UV island? How do you select an entire UV island on a mesh by selecting a piece of the desired island? Similar to the Ctrl+L for selecting all connecting geometry, only selecting all geometry within seams. … mesh uv workflow selection-tools   asked by PGmath 5 votes answered by ideasman42 4 votes Operator's, How to detect `MOUSEMOVE` inside of `LEFTMOUSE` event I'd like to track mouse movement with the MOUSEMOVE event only while LMB is held down, but can't seem to get the two to play nicely together. What I tried was: if event.type == 'LEFTMOUSE': if … python operator   asked by Matthew Heimlich 4 votes answered by CoDEmanX 2 votes Does Blender API have any evaluation function for Bezier curves? I'm trying to export Blender Bezier Paths to Unity, so that Unity objects can follow along those paths. The 2 ways to do this that I came up with so far are: Blender script creates an empty for … python export curves   asked by SaldaVonSchwartz 4 votes answered by SaldaVonSchwartz 2 votes Edit Mode Changes not showing up in Object Mode When I made changes to my model in EDIT Mode, then swap into either Pose or Object mode, or simply click off the model. My changes go away, but when I click back on the model and go into Edit mode, … modeling armature   asked by Confused Panda 4 votes answered by Gaia Clary 2 votes Cycles volumetric object with intersecting mesh Hi I'm trying to make a character that looks like he's made of mist or smoke in Cycles. The Volume absorption works pretty much as I'd hoped. But once the character is posed, any little mesh … cycles materials volumetrics   asked by Stephen Hamacek 4 votes answered by kilbee 4 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How can I quickly generate / create a large city without modeling it all by hand? I am trying to create an urban open-world environment in Blender that would be about one square kilometre in size. To avoid having to model hundred of individual buildings, I am looking for a way to … python modeling addon   asked by A A 17 votes answered by Thom Blair III 38 votes How do I set a background image while I am editing? How do I put a backdrop behind the model that I am creating so that I can compare the picture to the model while editing? viewport image   asked by John 14 votes answered by Gwenn 11 votes Can you answer these? Mesh is Weirdly Deformed in Object & Sculpt Modes I'm following a video tutorial on sculpting and when I switch back to object mode to review my work there are weird random spikes jutting out from my mesh, as best as I can determine they arise from … objects sculpting   asked by RaenirSalazar 1 vote It is possible to add modifiers to a group? I made a group of different objects with different set of modifiers for each one. I wanted to add a lattice modifiers to this group to be able shape its form... it is possible? I tried with no … modeling modifiers objects groups   asked by GiovanniLucca 1 vote How can shape keys of a linked object be controlled? The Properties Panel in a scene file has no tab for mesh when an object is linked to the scene. Can the Shape Keys influenced by a driver or is there some other trick to enable shape keys in the … animation linked-data shape-keys   asked by stacker 2 votes

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