Blender Weekly Newsletter - Monday, December 28, 2015

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Top new questions this week: Why do normals exist? I know what normals are, because I took physics. However, I have this question: why do they exist in blender? The only use I've ever had for them is negative side effects. They make my mesh render ... modeling rendering   asked by user1833028 13 votes answered by stacker 16 votes What is the warp modifier for? What is the warp modifier for, and how is it used? Even when I fill in the From and To fields, so that the modifier is not red, I still can not figure out what it is so post to do. When I set up ... modifiers objects   asked by David 11 votes answered by stacker 6 votes How would I change a Cycles material's color using the scale of the object instance it's applied to? Basically I have a field of spheres that are a bunch of different sizes that use the same material and I want them to be a different color based on their size. I accomplished something similar to ... cycles materials nodes properties drivers   asked by stapleshotz 7 votes answered by atomicbezierslinger 5 votes How to create porous material Porous material I tried to model a porous material which contain empty spheres or complex shapes, modeling it into a cube. I found this video as an example, but the procedure was made by Cinema ... texturing materials   asked by saded 6 votes answered by stacker 3 votes Can we keyframe hair particle brownian motion? Is there a good reason to be unable to keyframe a hair particle system's brownian motion? Or is it a bug? I can't change this value, because its keyframe at another frame prevents it from being ... animation particles   asked by ajwood 5 votes answered by sambler 0 votes is there a way how to find out to which objets a material is assigned I have a bunch of materials in one file (made by appending objects from multiple files) and I don't know, to which objects they are assigned, but I know, that they are all same. How can I find out, to ... materials   asked by aky-her 5 votes answered by stacker 4 votes Why is my object offset from the Bezier curve? I'm watching this tentacle tutorial video. Most of it is working fine; I have a Bezier curve, my tentacle follows it, and so on. However, I have one problem. In the video, the tentacle is "around" ... objects transforms curves   asked by Somatic 5 votes answered by David 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: How can I make sharp geometric 3d models look more realistic? I'm making a scene in Blender with manufactured mechanical and electrical objects - cylinders, metal objects and so forth. I want to make these look real, be fully present with a sense of mass and ... modeling rendering   asked by greatwolf 40 votes answered by iKlsR 48 votes How to measure a distance between two points? I would like to measure the distance between the yellow points in this image : How do I do ? My goal is to cut the cube using the plane but I must set a precise distance between the plane and the ... objects transforms measurement   asked by hyperbah 14 votes answered by poor 12 votes Can you answer these? Soft bodies bouncing with collision I am trying to get soft body objects to interact with each other as if they were real world, rubbery objects. An example of the type of material I am trying to create can be seen in David McLeod's ... objects physics soft-body   asked by fabrice d 3 votes How can I receive shadows on an image-plane and at the same time ignore incoming lights? (Cycles) In the Image below I've placed some 'feathers' on top of each other. They are made of image-planes with transparent backgrounds. The problem I have is that I would like the feathers to receive ... cycles image transparency   asked by Mia Nygren 1 vote Why does my scene, all of a sudden, seem to have so little light? So I was texturing a tower that I made, but all a sudden it seemed so dark. Is there any way to fix this lighting and make it brighter? When I was modeling this, the lighting seemed all perfectly ... modeling texturing uv   asked by JFZhang 1 vote

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