Questions tagged [blender]

Questions about the 3D modeller/renderer `blender`.

Blender is a professional, free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animating, match moving, camera tracking, rendering, motion graphics, video editing and compositing. It also features an integrated game engine.

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How can I change the files of an appimage?

How can I change the files of an appimage? I just want to replace the version of a program with another new one, the app that I need is the blender 2.79b version, and I only could find the blender 2.78c version appimage, in the appimages download…
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System unresponsive even when running command with nice

Debian 10. I am trying to render with blender in the background, like so: nice -n 19 blender -b --python my_script.py This renders to a file using the GPU. When rendering, I can see GPU usage spike to 100% with nvidia-smi, the system load goes up…
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How do you emulate a numpad/keypad for use with design software (such as Blender)?

Problem When using certain software such as Blender, it is important to be able to have use of numpad that that the user can do things like orient themselves in the design space, but many laptops do not come with a physical numpad. This is made…
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100% GPU Usage but < 40W Power Draw

My GPU utilization, when rendering scenes in Blender, is completely maxed: Mon Dec 12 20:33:51 2022 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 525.60.11 Driver Version: 525.60.11 CUDA…
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How to troubleshoot Blender 100% compiled with ld error “undefined reference”

I was trying to get a clean instal of blender on my computer following the steps from this wepage On the build steps from the wepage after the make command the build crashes: $ cd ~/blender-git/blender $ make [ 1%] Built target bf_intern_clog […
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Open a single file in blender via terminal with an unknown filename

I would like to execute a .blend file via terminal in a directory where only one .blend file is located. I would like to start this file without knowing the exact file name. If I knew the filename I would do it like this: blender --background…
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How do I clean up the Video Sequencer background in Blender 3.4.1

With Blender 3.4.1, the editor type Video Sequencer with type Sequencer displays an area filled with digital garbage. I am running on Debian 12 with a Plasma desktop, although I have also tried this on a Gnome desktop with the same results. I have…
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Blender has stopped rendering

I have Blender 3.0.1 running on Ubuntu 22.04. It was installed via 'apt', not 'snap'. I use it mostly for video editing, (vfs type stuff). I use the video editor, tracking, masking and compositing. I have had multiple successful renders from most of…
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How to get GUI application to run on the cloud?

How to run Blender GUI on headless Oracle Cloud through VNC? The compute must be VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro (AMD processor) or VM.Standard.A1.Flex (ARM processor). Both can be tried on their free tier. I am using the Ubuntu 22.04 image. When through…
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Blender not detecting Radeon graphics card on OpenSuse

I freshly installed OpenSuse on my Laptop, but blender does not seam to detect my Graphics card. I come from Nobrara(Fedora) where everything worked fine as long as I staid on the blender lts 3.3 so I know my card supports hip. I also installed…
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X Error of failed request: BadValue

When launching blender I get this error: 12:08:29 ❯❯ blender X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes) Value in failed request: 0xea6bc9ff …
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Debian Sid, Blender 3.4.1 glitch GUI at nouveau

gf9800gtx Is where way fixed that without upgrading hardware? freeartist-debian@home:~/Downloads/blender-3.4.1-linux-x64$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL OpenGL vendor string: nouveau OpenGL renderer string: NV92 OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core…
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Disks no longer mount when starting Ubuntu after installing Blender compilation dependencies

I'm trying to compile Blender on Ubuntu 22.04 and I ran into some problems while installing some dependencies and now Ubuntu wont boot. I was running an automatic dependency installation script for building Blender on Ubuntu (here and part ways…
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Blender is not running after download, how to make it run?

I just downloaded the latest Blender version and it is not running when I double-click it or run it through the terminal. I'm the only person using the machine as currently the administrator in the distro. The only way to run the application is to…
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Blender can't copy text to WM clipboard, how to fix it?

Original question: how to copy a text/numeric field value to clipboard on linux for blender v2.93.4? https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/239139/how-to-copy-a-text-numeric-field-value-to-clipboard-on-linux-for-blender-v2-93-4 I open…
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