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I am having a couple of basic difficulties using Blenderā¦
The various buildings in the Acropolis scene are in separate .blend files. How do I load them into Blender altogether so that I can render the complete ensemble of models?
I have a Logitech MX5500 keyboard/mouse setup, and though the mouse does have a middle mouse button that functions by clicking down the scroll wheel, it doesnāt seem to make the navigation functions work. Does anybody else use this setup and what do you do to make this mouse work with Blender?
For your first problem, open a blend file in which you want to load all the buildings, click āfileā āappendā and choose the building you want to append from the correct .blend file.
For the second problem, in the user preferences, āinputā panel you can emulate MMB with alt+LMB, the navigation will look like in Lightwave if you know this software.
When I try the āappendā function, and double-click a .blend file in the directory, it expands into a list of folders (Camera, Image, Lamp, Material, Mesh, Object, Scene, Text, Texture, World). When I look in āObject,ā there are circles, cubes, and cylindersāyikes! Surely there must be a way to get the entire Acropolis scene into blender all at once, as demonstrated hereā¦
When I look in āObject,ā there are circles, cubes, and cylindersāyikes! Surely there must be a way to get the entire Acropolis scene into blender all at once,
Thatās the names the person who made the blend file called each of the objects. Why not just select them all (A key), or just seelct the Scene. I assume you installed blender and not actually read any of the documentation before trying to do somethinsg with it. Wiki entry for appending http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.5/Manual/Data_System/Linked_Libraries
For your mouse try selecting āEmulate 3 button mouseā in the user preferences
The problem for these models is that each building contains a lot of objects so you can open each .blend file, select all the objects of a building, create a group (ctrl+G) and save.
Then when you append the buildings, select these new groups instead of the objects.
Alt+LMB doesnāt do anything because as I said in my previous post, you need to enable this option in the user preferences. (āfileā āuser preferencesā āinputā and in the top left check the box called āEmulate 3 buttons mouseā)
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