Blender Weekly Newsletter - Monday, June 29, 2015

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Top new questions this week: How to create Bokeh circles? How can I render bokeh circles? Nothing I do seems to work. I tried using an empty as the focus point for a cube, with some point lamps in the background with about 2000 strength, but it doesn't ... cycles depth-of-field   asked by jamius19 11 votes answered by gandalf3 14 votes How to properly render smoke on a transparent background? When rendering volumes with Film > Transparent enabled, the alpha appears to be the wrong type (premultiplied/straight). In the 3D view it works as expected: This is a known bug. Is there any way ... cycles rendering transparency volumetrics   asked by gandalf3 7 votes answered by jozxyqk 2 votes What does Light Portal mean? I've heard a lot about this 'cool' feature in the next release and I wonder what it is. Any infos? cycles light   asked by jik bik 6 votes answered by Jerryno 2 votes How to resolve ugly artifacts bending joints after posing? Just learning here... I created a model in Makehuman and imported it into Blender. When I pose the model I get really ugly creases where the mesh appears to overlap: How do I clean this up or avoid ... mesh editing   asked by mister martin 6 votes answered by ideasman42 4 votes Cycles rendering objects all black I added a texture to the bowl, and it came out rendered black. I unwrapped it, and I did a little node editing, to make the plane glossy and B&W. It looks fine in the preview, as well as in ... cycles rendering texturing render-layers   asked by VirusParadox 6 votes answered by TARDIS Maker 7 votes Why can't I do a loop cut after Merging these vertices? So, I have this geometry: It was created from this geometry: by simple scaling to zero about the 3D cursor, which had been moved to selection, but selecting the topmost and bottom-most ... modeling mesh edges topology   asked by user1833028 6 votes answered by brasshat 9 votes Is there a way to save composite node presets? Is there any way in Blender to save settings in your compositing node setup. For example say for my shadow catcher I have it setup for a hard shadow for sunlight, and then I also have a setting for ... interface nodes workflow compositor   asked by Corwin 5 votes answered by gandalf3 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: What is a BSDF? The term "BSDF" is common in Cycles shaders such as "Diffuse BSDF" and "Glass BSDF" but is not present in all names ("Emission" and "Mix Shader" are two such examples). What exactly is a BSDF? cycles terminology   asked by WChargin 25 votes answered by WChargin 36 votes Why does Blender use so much memory for large textures? Using a single 6K texture at only 227kb in size, spikes the memory usage to a crazy 144mb of memory in Blender. It was brought up in this bug report, but closed. Why can image editors ... texturing memory-management   asked by Andrew Price 17 votes answered by ideasman42 20 votes Can you answer these? Keeping a mesh flush against another surface without ruining geometry (Non-Spherical Eyes) I am working on a cartoon style animated character who has unrealistic non-spherical eyes. Warning, it looks really dumb from this angle. The problem is that because the eyes of my character are ... animation rigging   asked by Glyph 1 vote Extract Texture from a 3D blender model As part of a project, I want to convert a 3D Model into a 2D image, my goal is to extract the texture from the model using blender. I know UV unwrapping goes by the following steps: Import object. ... texturing uv objects image   asked by Srijith 2 votes Blender 2.6 rock cycle render nodes problem in Blender 2.73 I just bought a texture cookbook tutorial of how to create realistic textures using blender cycles and I was doing a tutorial on how to create a realistic stone. However, I ended up with something I ... cycles texturing   asked by Glenn Parale 1 vote

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