Blender Weekly Newsletter - Monday, August 29, 2016

Top new questions this week: What does Save As Render do to the image when saving it? So you render your image in cycles, and then go to save it, then in the bottom left corner is options, and both ticked are save as copy and save as render, and I'm wondering what "save as render" ... rendering image file-browser   asked by Friendly Person 44 14 votes answered by cegaton 8 votes Add a custom curve mapping property for an add-on? Question The title says it all. I want to be able to make this in Blender's UI, and sample it at specific points from an add-on: Problem There is very insufficient documentation on this, and I ... python scripting interface add-on   asked by pycoder 7 votes answered by sambler 1 vote What do the parameters of the Cycles Noise Texture do? I am a bit confused by the parameters of the Noise Texture node in Cycles. The Blender manual does not really shed much light on the topic. Specifically: 1) What does the distort parameter do? 2) ... cycles   asked by James Duvall 6 votes answered by Noidea 1 vote Performance of mixing colors vs mixing colored shaders Is there a performance difference between these two setups? I imagine on a material this simple, there's not going to be much of a difference. But on a complex material, it could. If you had a choice ... cycles materials nodes performance   asked by Drudge 6 votes answered by gandalf3 3 votes Dynamic proportional edit connected to an object? Is there a method or modifier that would allow me to dynamically create an effect on a mesh similar to the proportional edit, that would accept a magnitude, position and directional vector by using ... animation modifiers   asked by falldeaf 6 votes answered by lemon 10 votes Modeling Waffle Shape of Cone So I have completed a model of an ice cream cone, but I'm stumped on how to achieve the waffle pattern. What would be the best way to go about this? Is Sculpting with an alpha good? Or can you ... modeling cycles mesh edges   asked by Art Jr. 5 votes answered by Paul Gonet 19 votes Why do similar UV islands rotate differently when unwrapped? I have a simple model that is symmetrical on the Y axis. When I unwrap it, with the entire model selected the two identical sides do not share the same rotation: If I de-select the middle UV island ... uv   asked by aPerfectMisterMan 5 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: What's the quickest, easiest way to point the camera somewhere in blender? Often I want to just point the camera to an object or a specific area in my scene to get an idea of how it'll look in the render. What's the most painless hassle-free way to do this in blender? A ... camera scene   asked by greatwolf 72 votes answered by iKlsR 76 votes Splitting pieces of a mesh into a new object I've just made a set of armor by using a male body mesh model I downloaded and selecting certain faces from the model and duplicating them to create viable armor pieces. Since the pieces are just ... modeling mesh   asked by user2016 38 votes answered by gandalf3 51 votes Can you answer these? How to inactivate a strip in Python? After I make a cross effect strip, this new strip is now referenced in: bpy.context.scene.sequence_editor.active_strip Then I try to make a new cross fade transition elsewhere by first setting .select ... python video-sequence-editor effects   asked by Blender-newbie 2 votes Perform ops class from console When loading any file, the sun_position add-on/plug-in, although enabled in User Preferences, is disabled in its panel. When trying to dynamically render a scene, using a python file: blender -b ... python add-on command-line   asked by Greg Brimble 1 vote Project texture on moving object Lets say I'm looking at my scene through a camera. I can project an image sequence onto an object from camera view. I can then move the object, which keeps the image sequence in the same position on ... texturing uv texture-baking   asked by AaronF 1 vote

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