General Blender help thread

[Demian]

How do I keep a pose from a rig as its own model? What happens is when I export to .obj and it'll have multiples of one part in the basic pose and the posed version.

I have hardly any experience in animating but you could try applying the armature modifier.

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[Daedalus]

3. Is there any feature similar to the Subtract feature in Adobe Illustrator? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Hl6GYfT-g
4. How do I enable the mirror feature so everything is symmetrical?

[dorkdotdan]

Extremely basic question ahead!

So, I want to get this...


Over onto the other side...


and simply mirror it, but whenever I duplicate it over there and try to rotate it, it just spins in some odd angle and annoys me.

I know that model is terrible, this is my first blend, and it's besides the point.

[Demian]

Center your model to the 3D cursor. Then apply location, rotation and scale. Then do a mirror modifier. Search OP and use common sense, all the info is there.

[dorkdotdan]

Center your model to the 3D cursor. Then apply location, rotation and scale. Then do a mirror modifier. Search OP and use common sense, all the info is there.

Thanks. I'm also fully aware that I lack common sense a bit.

[Volko]

This is actually beginning to make sense.

[Nasoa]

Is there any way to open up a blender file to edit its contents? For some reason some stuff won't delete.

[Demian]

Is there any way to open up a blender file to edit its contents? For some reason some stuff won't delete.

I bet you're referring to materials. Simply make sure that no objects use a material, save, restart Blender, and load your save. All materials that were not used are gone. If you didn't mean materials I suggest you take a look at the outliner editor.

[Nasoa]

Selecting in the outliner didn't allow me to delete them, DarkStar's rig has a bunch of extra shapes that aren't even visible, and I'm not even using the rig.
Never mind, turns out they were bones that had to be deleted in edit mode.

[dorkdotdan]

So, I was separating the different appendages from a Blockhead model into seperate meshes, and certain meshes, like the feet and torso have this odd black noise on it. Isn't this generally associated with overlapping faces or something?

[Demian]

So, I was separating the different appendages from a Blockhead model into seperate meshes, and certain meshes, like the feet and torso have this odd black noise on it. Isn't this generally associated with overlapping faces or something?

Yes.

[dorkdotdan]

Yes.

Oh wow, there were two duplicates overlapping the original.

Thanks Demian.

[dorkdotdan]

I seem to be making too many problems.

Anyways, I've only recently realized that when I render my Hakosuka, it only displays in black and white. In the example below, the cloth is really a dark red, but it comes out as grey.

[Tomcat]

I forgot how to apply solid colors to models in the new edition of blender. Howto?

[Nasoa]

Add a material and change the diffuse.