To sort the list of materials in the object’s material slots in Blender in the desired way, for example, alphabetically, we can use the function we created earlier to switch materials in material slots.
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To move a material from one material slot to another, we can click the up or down arrow button in the object’s material panel. In this case, the material in the currently selected slot will move up (or down) by one position. This method of moving and sorting materials is very slow and not very convenient.
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In order to completely select or deselect the entire mesh, it is not enough to change the selection only for its vertices, we also need to change the selection for the edges and polygons of the mesh.
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When modeling “by reference”, it is sometimes necessary for the 3D scene grid to be displayed on top of the reference image. This makes it easier to snapping and relate the model being built to the scene as a whole.
When rotating or moving an object using transformation matrices, in some cases we need to be able to extract a part of it from the entire rotation/movement. For example, when rotating an object by 180 degrees, we need to rotate it not at once, but in several steps, each time rotating it by 30 degrees. Linear interpolation of matrices can help us with this.
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In order to compare two vectors – to determine whether both vectors point to the same place, we need to compare the coordinates of both vectors and if they are equal, then the vectors are also equal. However, the coordinates of the vectors are specified by float values, the comparison of which for equality, due to the peculiarities of storing this type in computer memory, is never accurate.
From the math course, we know that only one circle can be drawn through any three points in space. So, if we have three points in a Blender scene, defined by the coordinates V0 (x0, y0, z0), V1 (x1, y1, z1), and V2 (x2, y2, z2), let’s see how we can construct a circle that passes through these three points.
Aligning one plane to another is a common task in 3D modeling. The easiest way to align planes is by using their normal vectors – we need to rotate the original plane so that its normal vector coincides with the normal vector of the plane for which the alignment is performed. Therefore, the task of rotating one plane to another can be reduced to the problem of rotating the normal vector of the first place to the normal vector of the second plane.
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For ease of display, all input and output sockets on nodes, both shader and geometry, can be hidden from the user. Hiding unused node inputs and outputs may be necessary to simplify the visual perception of the node tree, which can be very large and complex and does not need to be overloaded with unnecessary information.
Hiding all inputs and outputs on nodes in Blender using Python APIRead More »
One of the methods for mesh analytics is exploring its triangulated geometry. For example, such exploration is used when searching for polygons that overlaps in the mesh itself or in its UV. In order to return the result obtained after analyzing the triangulated mesh back to the original mesh, we need to know the exact correspondence between the original polygon and the triangles created from it.
Polygons and triangles correspondence after triangulating a mesh in BlenderRead More »
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