I have some basic Blender questions.
1. How do I duplicate a group?
- I’ve created several ‘things’ that are groups of objects all linked together as a well group. How do I duplicate that group without having to manually duplicate all the individual objects in that group? How do I group with linking? So that If i change one group they all change? I know how to do this with objects, just not with groups.
2. What if I want to import an entire group from another .blend? I don’t see that option, am I blind?
3. How do I make something glow?
- Lets say I want to make part of a texture that is set to emit to glow and have a halo around it, how do I go about that?
4. Render only certain objects?
- I plan on rendering a scene in two parts, then compositing those with other elements in After Effects. Foreground and background. Is there a simple way to render some objects set as ‘foreground’ and then render out the ‘background’? Does this make sense?
5. Set up something so it always animates?
- This may be a bigger question. Lets say I’ve rendered a helicopter. Is there a simple way that the helicopters blades always rotate. Or have lights that blink in a repeating sequence, etc. As I said, this may be a bigger question that may require me to learn more animation first.
6. Is there a good tutorial for creating an afterburner effect?
- I’ve looked, they all seem like old tutorials. The biggest issue with blender on the internet seems to be all the old tutorials that don’t help us newbs that much with the new interface. For this should I just play with particles and smoke?
7. My UV is all tilted and not square and stuff?
-I saw a tutorial(which I then lost) that showed how you square up one face of a UV, then “mage wand clickies” the rest of the grid of the UV squared up to that face. How do I do this? Was I just dreaming?
8. Is there a good tutorial or resource outlining material settings?
-Metal should have X hardness and Y luminosity…etc? Anything like that out there, or should I just import premade materials?
Thanks all, I will probably add more questions later.
I’m slowly making a spaceship, and corridors and stuff. I know, how original.
