Switching between the “DEFAULT” and “FALLBACK” modes for tools in Blender allows us to use the tool in the first case by dragging the mouse anywhere in the 3D viewport, and in the second – only inside the area limited by the control ring.
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In Blender, when creating complex procedural materials or geometry nodes, the node tree often moves away from the starting point of the node editor area. Later, when working with materials, this causes some inconvenience – when switching from material to material, the node tree “runs away” and we have to scroll the screen each time to see the nodes. This problem can be solved using a simple script that will move the entire node tree to the origin of the node editor area.
To switch the active tool using the Blender Python API, we must use the wm.tool_set_by_id operator, passing the identifier of the required tool in its parameter. In earlier versions of Blender, to call this operator from an area with a different context, for example, from the Text Edit area, it was necessary to override the context.
Selecting a Tool in Blender 3.6 using the Blender Python APIRead More »
When working with mesh geometry using the Blender Python API, it is often necessary to visually control which vertices are processed by scripts and which are not. Ordinary Blender users may also find it useful to be able to navigate the mesh’s vertices by their numbers.
As with normal mesh manipulation via the Blender Python API, when using the BMesh object to deselect vertices, it is not enough to simply change the value of their “select” property to the opposite. To deselect the vertices of the BMesh object, the “select” value must also be changed for the edges and polygons adjacent to them.
Blender is an international project, popular in many countries. Therefore, its interface has been translated into many languages, and in its settings we can conveniently and quickly switch between the necessary translations.
Along with the scene objects, the Blender Python API allows us to interact with the Blender interface. For example, using the Python API, we can show and hide the most commonly used toolbar – the N-panel.
Opening and closing the N-panel using Blender Python APIRead More »
In Blender, any object can be removed from a collection, as well as from all collections to which this object has been added, using the Python API.
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The BMesh module provides users of the Blender Python API with far more options for editing meshes than the usual object data structure.
Copying objects to the clipboard is used in Blender in the same way as in all other applications: by pressing the Ctrl + c key combination, and pasting from the clipboard with Ctrl + v. However, an interesting feature of copying and pasting objects in Blender is that the system clipboard is not actually used.
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