Blender Weekly Newsletter - Monday, August 31, 2015

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Top new questions this week: How to easily organise your Blender scene? When making complex scenes there should be some kind of "folders" (i.e. like in Adobe Photoshop, layer management) in scene outliner, that can group objects together - but this feature seems not ... scene groups parent layers   asked by komorra 8 votes answered by poor 8 votes Use tracking information from video to make a 2d panorama I am proficient in computers, but a relative noob to blender. My video is H.264 with 1080p@60. I have loaded a video in and did the whole tracking system and collected the movement data. I slowly ... video tracking   asked by cybernard 6 votes How do I shrinkwrap an object to a curved surface cleanly and efficiently? I have a sphere and two eyes. I want to shrinkwrap the eyes onto the sphere's surface cleanly. The only way I know how to shrinkwrap ANYTHING is via the Shrinkwrap modifier, which crumples up the ... modeling modifiers vertices   asked by ROBOTunderscore 6 votes answered by Denis 7 votes How to easily make mesh retopology? After creating some hi-poly model, i'm always creating low-poly model by approximating that hi-poly mesh with triangle-by-triangle LP mesh - with snap to face mode turned on. So the process looks like ... modeling topology   asked by komorra 6 votes answered by Gonzou 5 votes Creating an object out of other objects I was wondering if I could make an object out of other objects. Example: The surface area of a cube will be made out of small hexagonal prisms. I was wondering because I would like to create an ... mesh modifiers   asked by Olek410 5 votes answered by Carlo 4 votes How are vertex indices determined? How does the program decide what indices to assign to vertices? If you create a primitive, are the indices generated randomly, or by some base primitive setting? If you extrude new vertices, will they ... mesh scripting   asked by Drudge 5 votes answered by Jerryno 7 votes Joining text objects and cube I have a cube and created Text objects on all sides of the cube. After converting the text objects in meshes this is the result: After joining all text meshes and the cube (selected the cube as the ... modifiers objects text-object   asked by Jan Scherders 5 votes answered by GiantCowFilms 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How to convert from high poly to low poly I'm making a game in the unity engine and for my models i'm using blender 2.6. The thing is that i'm pretty new to graphics design (modeling, sculpting, etc) and by following some tutorials i've ... topology   asked by Dylan Velez 8 votes answered by gandalf3 7 votes Any good free materials libraries online? I'm wondering if there's any addons or online libraries of materials I can download. I've found one called online_mat_lib, but then discovered it was from 2008 and thought by now something like that ... materials   asked by Leif 14 votes answered by stacker 5 votes Can you answer these? Can't flip pose properly blender Pose reverse fails, tried to rename some bones to check if there's a problem but it didn't change anything. Here's a gif: animation rigging armature bones   asked by wuden 3 votes Creating/Handling pathfinding large world waypoints in Blender I am trying to create an importer/exporter script for an open world's game map. However, I am being constantly hit and set back by performance of blender. I want to be able to create way points for ... curves performance   asked by Swoorup 2 votes How to use PropertyGroupItem I was browsing the docs when I ran into something interesting: bpy.types.propertyGroupItem This is what the doc says about it: Property that stores arbitrary, user defined properties I did a ... scripting properties documentation   asked by Isaac 1 vote

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