Creating procedural material of Solar Panels
Creating procedural Solar Panels material by Ryan King Art.
Blender add-on: Area Switcher v. 1.3.0
Blender add-on “Area Switcher” updated to v. 1.3.0.
- Added the “LuxCore” add-on area types
- Modified to register last (after all other add-ons) to prevent issues with external add-ons (like LuxCore)
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In Blender, we can add custom items to any context menu, called by pressing the right mouse button, to quickly execute the necessary operators.
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Appending objects into the scene by name from an external blend file
In order to append the necessary meshes into the scene by name from an external blend file, we can use the wm.append operator or use the BlendDataLibraries mechanism.
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Inverting 1 to 0 and back with nodes
In order to make an inversion of the boolean value: invert 1 to 0 and 0 back to 1, we only need to use two Math nodes in the Blender node editor.
Transferring the local coordinate system from one object to another
We can quickly transfer the local coordinate system from one object to another by joining and next separating them, or by performing the “Align to Transform Orientation” operation with the “Affect only Origins” option turned on.
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Selecting objects in a collection
To select all objects in a collection with the Blender Python API, we need to walk through the list of these objects and call the “select_set” method for each of them, specifying the “True” value in the parameter.
Turning off the Load UI option by default
Blender is developing intensively and new versions of the program are released quite quickly. In this case, compatibility often suffers – when we open a project created in earlier versions of Blender, it can be opened not correctly. Sometimes this happens because Blender stores all user interface (UI) settings and options in every .blend file. Opening a project with the Load UI option unchecked can help.
In this case, Blender only loads the project itself, without any UI settings that may have changed in the current version.
