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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Switching the selection mode between vertices, edges, and polygons in mesh edit mode is mapped by default to pressing the 1, 2, and 3 keycodes on the keyboard. However, if it is more comfortable to use these hotkeys for other functions, we can change this mapping.
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The ColorRamp node can be quickly filled with the desired colors from the palette image with automatic separators creation.
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When we create complex shaders in Blender, consisting of a large number of node groups, the menu for adding new nodes to the material gets clogged up very quickly. In a long list of node groups, it becomes difficult to find the one we need, and even a search does not always save the day. The list of node groups in the menu can be reduced by hiding unnecessary node group names from it.
To quickly maximize the working area in Blender to fullscreen we can press the following keycode:
ctrl + space bar
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Bookmarks saved in the Favorites section of the File Browser can be renamed with any convenient names.
To rename a bookmark in Favorites, just double-click on it, enter the desired name, and press “enter”.
Input parameters from Blender Geometry Nodes are automatically placed on the “Geometry Nodes” modifier panel in the “Properties” window on the modifier tab. However, this tab is not always open, and it is not always convenient to switch to it to adjust values. For quick access to the input parameters of Geometry Nodes, we can duplicate them on the custom panel in the 3D Viewport window.
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The Blender API recommends creating custom object properties through the predefined bpy.props classes. For example, the bpy.props.IntProperty class is used to add an integer property. These properties are convenient, work well, and are easy to display on the user interface panels.
To hide objects in the 3D Viewport window, we can click the “eye” icon in the outliner near the desired object name (press the “H” shortcode), or we can click the icon with the “monitor” image. In both cases, the object will be hidden.
So, what’s the difference between these two variants?
It is very simple:
Clicking on the “eye” icon hides objects only in the currently active scene of the blend file.
Pressing the icon with the “monitor” hides objects in all scenes of the blend file at once.
To apply all transformations to an object, all its vertices must be multiplied by its global matrix, the matrix itself must be made identity.
To apply all transformations to the active mesh, we need to execute the following:
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import bpy obj = bpy.context.object matrix = obj.matrix_world.copy() for vert in obj.data.vertices: vert.co = matrix @ vert.co obj.matrix_world.identity() |
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