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Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Also see the https://blender.stackexchange.com Stack Exchange site for more Blender-related questions.

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, animating, match moving, camera tracking, rendering, video editing and compositing, featuring also a built-in game engine.

It is mainly written in C. Python is used for scripting and part of the user interface.

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Using Blender/SketchUp Models in OpenGL

I'm making a renderer using OpenGL. I have textured models in Blender / Sketchup (I can exchange between the two easily), and I'd like to be able to export those files into my renderer. My initial idea was to simply export the raw faces and render…
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Best process to show an OpenGL Animation in iPhone

I'm having issues being able to import a bone and skeletal animation from Maya to Blender to iPhone. Here's what I've done: install the ColladaMaya plugin to export a DAE for Blender to export used Jeff LeMarche's script to be able to export a…
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Morph Targets Three.js

I'm trying to get started with morph targets and three.js. However, there doesn't seem to be much documentation on this subject. As I'm looking at the source code, morphTargetInfluences[] seems to be the magic. How does this work? How do I use this?…
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What was Blender created in?

Does Blender use OpenGl or DirectX? Or is it all done from scratch?
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how to export per-vertex UV coordinates in Blender export script

I'm writing a a python export script from Blender 2.64. The idea is that I'm trying to export the mesh data in an OpenGL VBO-friendly way. So I'm exporting vertex attributes in array of structs layout. For instance, for a mesh with vertices, normals…
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How to install python modules in blender

I've been trying to install pyserial for blender, but I can only install it to python32 on my C drive, is there anything i can do to have it install to blender or have blender import from python32
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Frequency Analysis in Python

I'm trying to use Python to retrieve the dominant frequencies of a live audio input. For the moment I am experimenting using the audio stream my Laptop's built in microphone, but when testing the following code, I am getting very poor results. #…
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Blender: border rendering is not supported by sequencer

Im using blender to edit a video and when i try to render it, it comes up with the error: border rendering is not supported by sequencer. Using blender 2.80
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Unable to set proper orientation of 3d Model in AR augmented face

I am trying to put earings on the face using ARCore Augmented Face. I am editing the 3D model in blender and adjusting the model according to canonical_face_mesh.fbx . But my 3d model is rendering above the head. I also tried making the pivot…
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How Do I Switch Y and Z Axises from Blender? (So Y is Up)

I've been having a bit of a problem with making the Y axis my up axis when exporting mesh and scenes from Blender. Both Blender and my export target use right handed transformation matrices. Z is the up axis in Blender while Y is the up axis in my…
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Exporting a simple model with texture from Blender to three.js

Note: I want to avoid modifying the model in the javascript code and do all the model design inside Blender. Note #2: While this question is long, it is actually a basic problem (title says it all). The below is "walk-through" to the problem. I am…
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input dialog box blender

How to make a simple entry dialog box (like in the image) in blender and processing the text entered through python.I am unable to find any good tutorial on this.
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Running Blender python script outside of blender

I want to visualize some scientific data, which is, at the moment, only an animation of some spheres with different colours and sizes. I already created a script within Mathematica which creates the input for POV-Ray. My problem is, that I'm not…
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Disable the startscreen when opening Blender

When I open blender 2.64, it automatically shows the start/splash screen (I mean the little box in the middle of the page where you can open recent .blend files). I Would like to disable this, but cannot find out how. Does anybody know? You might…
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Three.js Collada - What's the proper way to dispose() and release memory (garbage collection)?

I've successfully imported a .dae scene via ColladaLoader. The problem is, I need to switch between several .dae files. I can't seem to implement the dispose method properly. dae.traverse(function(obj) { console.log('unloading '…
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