Blender add-on: Hide Viewport Ops
Hide Viewport Ops – Blender 3D add-on for quickly hiding and unhiding objects in the viewport for all scenes in the file at once.
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How to change gizmo size
To change the size of the gizmo displayed in the “3D Viewport” window:
- Open the “Preferences” window
- Switch to the “Viewport” tab
- In the “Display” submenu, change the slider value of the “Gizmo Size” item
Blender 2.93.2 LTS release
The Blender 2.93.2 LTS release is now enabled for downloading on the official Blender site.
51 issues were fixed in this version.
Compiling a video from a sequence of frames using the FFmpeg codec
Rendering directly to a video file in Blender is not always useful. More often, a sequence (a set) of frames is received after render, which then, for example, after additional post-processing, must be assembled to the final video file.
We can compile a sequence of frames into a video with Blender itself, with the Visual Screen Editor (VSE). Or we can use third-party codecs, for example, FFmpeg.
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Origin to active
A simple script for transferring the origin of all selected objects to the origin of the active object.
Setting colors for Blender collections with the Python API
Since Blender 2.9, the ability to assign color tags has been added for collections. Collection with such tag is displaying in a specific color in the outliner.
The collection color tag value is stored in its “color_tag” property. To change the color label of a collection, we need to assign a certain value to this property.
For example, to mark the current active collection in green:
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bpy.context.collection.color_tag = 'COLOR_04' |
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How to add a new material slot
To add a new slot to the material slots for an object:
- We can use the operator object.material_slot_add
Adding an item to the Windows Explorer context menu: New – blend file
To quickly create Blender files in the currently open directory, we can make an additional item in the context menu that opens in Windows Explorer by the mouse right button click.
To create this item in the menu, we need to add the following elements to the Windows registry:
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