It's possible to code a simple add-on to "refresh" the data of objects in your scene from external files whose paths you specify as custom properties inside each object, so that these objects can be appended to the scene rather than linked, and you don't run into this limitation. The only difference with the built-in…
Hi guys, currently im switching from Blender to 3Ds Max and I run into problems with smoothing groups. I had the feeling, the normal informations in combination with smoothing groups are hard baked into the model and there is no way to remove them in 3DS Max to apply new ones. However how often you press the smooth button…
for what it's worth i found the only solution to tame this beast was to start with my own configuration, i looked at that silo-esque one and a few others but mainly to get an idea of what's doable in customizing blender. resetting to defaults - to do this have you tried moving the folder that blender stores it's…
Turns out I'm an idiot and failed the very first step. Didn't enable autosmooth in mesh properties. Also just... minor complaint. But if you're going to post directions you should separate the steps with line breaks rather than make it one huge run on sentence. Not blaming you, since this was the very first step you listed…
Question to you all - does anyone know of a reliable way (as in : you tested it yourself) to get .blend files thumbnails to show a scene preview in windows files explorer ? I've definitely had that in the past around an early 2.7 version but I can't seem to get it to work now. Of course I do *not* mean the thumbnails…
@Justo #1 Using the Add > Image > (Reference or Background) both remain visible in all view modes. If you're talking about importing an actual mesh object and using it as the image background then you'll need to go to Solid display mode and change the settings Color > Texture. For this to work you will also need to load…
@Kerub I agree! Though I'm abstaining from 2.8 until it's closer to release as there's still quite a few kinks to be worked through before it can replace 2.79 :) I think that addons like hard ops still need some months to update fully to 2.8. I would rather use what already works and then switch once things are ready. If…
To answer myself, if you're on Windows then you need to right-click the Blender 2.8 executable and pick Run with Graphics Processor -> Nvidia (...) or whatever dedicated GPU you have on your system.Turns out if you don't do that then 2.8 will use your integrated GPU, which may lack a feature or two and won't draw the…
i was just looking at 2.8 the other day. is there anything to be done in the preferences to make eevee run well? some of the demo scenes make a powerpoint slideshow seem fast here (forest and archviz in particular). on 1070 GTX and 4ghz machine with the visual studio build. generally, even in clay view mode i perceive a…
@Justo Lot of these are context sensitive in blender so you can't call them from the python interpreter but can only call them when 3d view is active. The following works for me: I put it in a pie menu and run the following commands. bpy.ops.mesh.knife_tool("INVOKE_DEFAULT") for legacy knife tool "INVOKE_DEFAULT" is…