Blender Weekly Newsletter - Monday, September 28, 2015

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Top new questions this week: Making hair go straight up instead of following the shape? So I'm making trees on a hill. But from what I know, trees grow straight up, and not at an angle. So how would you make the hair particles go straight up and not at an angle. Here's an example of the ... particles   asked by Chickenator 7 votes answered by Carlo 9 votes How to create a "fluid/distortion" effect on a solid object (example inside) I've been struggling to understand how I should approach the following effect in blender: https://youtu.be/UQq4PJBDxpU?t=97 I've tried to solve this one through the displacement modifier (with ... animation modifiers effects   asked by Valthrudnir 6 votes Mesh Extra Objects - operator panel is empty when using api instead of gui I am using the Add Mesh Extra Objects Add-on. If I add a regular solid via gui I can set stuff in the operator panel like source, size, vertex truncation, ... If I use ... python add-on   asked by Michael 4 votes answered by Ray Mairlot 0 votes ID masks for reflections Is there a way to get ID masks or otherwise isolate an objects reflection in the compositor? For example, if I have a sphere above a reflective plane, I can set an ID mask on the sphere and use that ... cycles compositor   asked by Drudge 4 votes answered by parameciostudio 4 votes Can I use array modifiers to create staggered rows of blocks in a dome? I have built up a number of courses of blocks on a dome I'm building using array modifiers and NURBS circles. It works pretty well but each row of blocks starts at the same place, so the first several ... modifiers   asked by kim holder 4 votes answered by sambler 2 votes Blender won't let me replace an image I need help with blender. I got a minecraft intro template, and there is a skin on it I want to change. The only way to change it like how everyone does is go to the replace image on the picture file. ... image   asked by Joey 3 votes How to copy weight painting on foot1 to foot2? I have a mesh (half a human body) and an armature, which is mirrored by scaling -1 along x, and then fixing bone roll. The mesh is weight painted. I want to mirror the mesh. However when I use the ... armature bones weight-painting mirror   asked by Artmole 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: What is the fastest way to create a curved plane? For a background, a lot of times I need a vertical wall, horizontal bottom, and a nice connecting curved surface between them in front of the camera. So far, I have used two methods: Deform a plane ... modeling workflow   asked by Alex Pakka 15 votes answered by Matt 7 votes What are the differences between Orthographic and Perspective views? In risk of being off topic for broadness and discussioness... but I think in the end it's a question that can't be avoided. Can someone please finally explain the difference and why we need both? 3d-view   asked by JNF 18 votes answered by zeffii 16 votes Can you answer these? Can I Cycles bake all diffuse lighting in one go? When doing ordinary renders with Cycles, you can get diffuse direct and diffuse indirect passes with one render by filling out the checkboxes. When you bake with Cycles, as far as I can tell you have ... cycles texture-baking   asked by Spencer Brown 3 votes Python access to Skin Modifier data - again I am trying to access skin modifier vertices data. An older solution does not work in my Blender 2.75 / 2.76: print('has skin=', bool(context.active_object.modifiers['Skin'])) data = ... python modifiers   asked by Marek 1 vote How can I combine these overlapping render layers? I had this scene: Then I broke it into these two render layers: Normally I use an alpha over node to combine render layers, but the transparency and overlapping doesn't allow that in this case. ... cycles render-layers   asked by ajwood 2 votes

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