Blender Aid

Simple guidance for Blender users

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“#b3d #tip: Randomize Transform A) select all objects B) adjust settings in tool shelf C) randomized model by Chocofur”

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Manu Järvinen on Twitter

“Did you know that CTRL+G in edit mode is GREAT for quickly storing/removing temporary vertex groups? #B3D #B3Dtip http://t.co/ju50P1CIWI”

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Scrubbing X and Y resolution values together keep the aspect ratio

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8k, 4k, 2k and 1k image textures take up respectively 256MB, 64MB, 16MB and 4MB of memory.

Source

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Use ‘P’ to set the preview range on timeline

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Temporarily having silhouette view for animation or character design

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Use CTRL+B, “Render Border” to make border test renders without adding camera to the scene.

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super easy way to remove floating single vertices and edges. And also extruded vertices that have no faces.

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When using volumetric fog, in order to reduce fireflies drastically use emission only for camera

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More render stamp values

Make stamp_init.py:

import bpy

def stamp_set(scene):    scene.render.stamp_note_text = \        "Samples: {samples}  |  Aperture: {aperture:.4f}  |  Blender {ver}  |  Resolution: {reso_x:.0f} x {reso_y:.0f}  |  ANIM: Jack  |  COMP: John".format(        samples=scene.cycles.samples,        aperture=scene.camera.data.cycles.aperture_size,        ver=bpy.app.version_string,        reso_x=scene.render.resolution_x*scene.render.resolution_percentage/100,        reso_y=scene.render.resolution_y*scene.render.resolution_percentage/100,        )

bpy.app.handlers.render_pre.append(stamp_set)

Click the ‘Register’ to run it on .blend startup (good for render farms)

Enable ‘Note’ in the Render Stamp settings

Run the script once to make test renders with the new stamp values

You can add more by checking out the python code from different tooltips.

This tip is found from the Blender Stack Exchange

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Disable particle system from a linked object

Hold mouse over the button you want to press, for example the ‘render’-icon in particle system. See the path. Ie.

bpy.data.objects['GEO-cliff_ground_high'].modifiers['ParticleSystem 0.003'].show_render

Make a new script called startup.py, check ‘Register’

Type:

import bpy

bpy.data.objects['GEO-cliff_ground_high'].modifiers['ParticleSystem 0.003'].show_render = False

You can do this for example for particle seed as well:

bpy.data.objects['GEO-cliff_ground_high'].particle_systems['island_plants_small_dead'].seed = 9

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Use different color pickers

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From Giudansky.com

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Use Ctrl-click to easily collapse other panels

Use Shift+click to pin them (to make them visible in other tabs for example)