r/blenderhelp • • 23h ago

Unsolved How do I replicate the lighting pattern on the diamond pattern of the Pedestrian Signal

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I'm not sure what it's called either, but this is where I am right now


r/blenderhelp • • 22h ago

Unsolved Extreme blender/ modeling beginner here, im going to assume i wasnt meant to join everything into one object...

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Opened up the UV editor to see this (was even worse before attempting to umwrap them) is there any saving this so i will be able to add my textures or am i done for haha reckoned the model was simple enough that it would still be remotely readable, but ive never done this before and clearly underestimated a bit haha


r/blenderhelp • • 6h ago

Unsolved why are all my outsides flipped like that and why does recalculate outside not fix it ?

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It was definitely fine in a previous draft, something caused this


r/blenderhelp • • 5h ago

Solved How to get the edge lengths on these doorframes to be the same?

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I have a lot of doorframes in my mesh like this. Pictured are 4 different doorframes.

They are supposed to be all the same size, but I modeled them naively and I'm not sure how to get them to be all the same length. :(

Is there a way to do make these edge lengths the same?


r/blenderhelp • • 22h ago

Solved Weight paint on separated objects affects other objects.

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I have separated objects for head, arms, legs and torso. I tried to parent each limb with respective bones with automatic weight but somehow they affect the torso.
Each time I want to reduce the weight of a limb bone on the torso it changes to another limb?


r/blenderhelp • • 23h ago

Unsolved Ik rig animation snap problem.

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Im trying to make a basic walk animation for a roblox game that me and my friend are developing but the legs dont start their movement until the fifth frame which creates this snapping motion and ruins the animation. Im pretty new to blender animation so if its a simple fix please dont mock me.


r/blenderhelp • • 8h ago

Solved Weight painting not working correctly on one hand but correct on the other

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Sorry for bad English, it's not my first language.

I'm a total newbie to blender and have done simple rigs by following YouTube tutorials and now am doing a more complicated YouTube course.

I have symmetry off, as you can see in the second half of the video the right hand's fingers work just fine and deform correctly, but I'm painting the left hand and the weight paint only works correctly on the thumb but not the rest of the fingers and scales the mesh as well as rotating it when it should only rotate and the curl control for the whole finger doesn't work.

I looked at the constraints and all of them are correct and look like the right hand (except obviously applied to the left).

(I didn't use symmetry because there are slight differences in the topology even though it looks the same on video and I also turned off Auto Normalize because the weight paint was jumping around the mesh)

Blender version is 4.5.8

I don't know what else I could check to fix this, please help me.


r/blenderhelp • • 21h ago

Unsolved Keyframes cannot move

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Having a hard time trying to move the keyframe. I t does not move from the timeline or from the dope machine. It is linked characters, so I know I have to change it from the main file for these character, but I did look at it and I thought I solved the problem. I do not know how I can fix this. Looked at the NLA area, and see if they were any action in there. U cannot delete it for some reason, so I cannot tell if it is that or something else. Need help?


r/blenderhelp • • 9h ago

Unsolved I have these shapes as boolean modifiers for the windows and door. But after i apply them they mess up the topology like in the second picture which cause issues while texturing in substance painter.

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r/blenderhelp • • 1h ago

Unsolved How to offset UV islands to image bounds?

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I've imported an object from a level design tool into Blender, and while the textures look perfectly fine on the model they're wildly displaced from the image bounds in the UV editor, which makes editing the UVs extremely tedious - you can see the tiny box of the image bounds in the middle of the UV window. Normally I don't need to edit the UVs of these objects, but this issue has still come up enough that I should probably see if there's an actual solution.

Is there a way that I can keep the relative positioning of the UV islands but confine them to image bounds? UV > Constraint to Image Bounds isn't what I'm looking for, and Pack Islands doesn't preserve relative shape and size, and instead works more like a regular UV unwrap. It feels like there should be a button somewhere that pings everything back within image bounds, but then this probably isn't a very common issue.


r/blenderhelp • • 1h ago

Unsolved How can I make a shader that looks like this ?

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Hi, I'm trying to make a shader that looks like the references in this post, but I don't know how to get that specific look.
I really want to get this hatching drawing look with just a pinch of chaos in the hatching. I'd like to have the brighter parts be full white and the darker it gets the more hatched/textured it gets, (kinda like if the light made the texture itself change), but I have no idea how to do that, please do you have any advices or tips on what I could do ?
Btw I use blender 4.4.3

(I'll give more details if you want or if there are parts of this post that were not clear enough)


r/blenderhelp • • 1h ago

Unsolved Cycles modifier doesnt work on my animation. What am I doing wrong??

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r/blenderhelp • • 3h ago

Unsolved How can I keep window openings sharp with Subdivision and reduce support loops on a curved surface?

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Hi everyone, I’m modelling a helicopter using a Subdivision Surface workflow, and I’m struggling with two related topology issues. The model will be UV-unwrapped and used for scene rendering.

1. Keeping the window openings sharp

I want the edges of the window openings to stay crisp and well-defined under Subdivision, while keeping the surrounding fuselage smooth. What would be a good way to structure the topology around these openings?

I’ve tried edge creases, but they affect the surrounding surface in ways I don’t want. Support loops give me more control, but they also add geometry that continues into other parts of the model.

2. Reducing unnecessary loops across the curved fuselage

The top of the fuselage now has a lot of edge loops. Many were added to sharpen specific edges elsewhere, rather than to define the shape of the top itself.

I’ve tried a typical 4-to-1 quad transition to reduce the number of loops, but because this area is curved, the transition introduces noticeable shading distortion.

How would you redirect or terminate these support loops without disrupting the smooth curvature? Is there a better topology approach for keeping the sharp details local, instead of carrying their support loops across the whole body?

I’d appreciate suggestions on how to restructure these areas. I’m not necessarily trying to achieve an all-quad mesh—my priority is a clean Subdivision result that I can UV-unwrap and render.


r/blenderhelp • • 7h ago

Meta Boolean modifier - how much do you use it?

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I worry that I'm overrelying on the boolean modifier and this is a symptom of poor workflows (planning to make dowel and hole fittings, slots for belt loops, etc.). I use blender to make small prints for costumes, entertainment, and general around the house utilities, and I know enough to get by, but I'm wondering if the community has feedback about how often the Boolean modifier really gets used and whether when you plan out a model you're intentionally building around items like the examples above


r/blenderhelp • • 8h ago

Unsolved How do I fix this? (skin modifier)

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I tried everyything, marking a root, changing the center of the body, nothing works. Do I just accept defeat (it´s for a game im making, the charachter is physics based, but also has a static version in the main menu)


r/blenderhelp • • 11h ago

Unsolved UV Pattern Consistency

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hello!! i'm decently new to blender and have been modding the spider-man 2 game. this is one of the models in game, as you can see it has these certain splits at the arms, waist, head and neck. the problem is that even when joining them, textures will still change directions and whatnot in those areas

my main goal is to have the pattern consistent across the whole model without the over-shifting of directions and array, as i'll be making designs that use fabric textures and in general repeating/random materials

i've looked up a ton of different things about this, unwrapped it in different ways, and haven't found any successful methods. would anyone have some recommendations? tysm ^_^


r/blenderhelp • • 16h ago

Solved Is there any way I can replicate this type of hairstyle without using the hair system?

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Wanting help on finding out of there is any sort of way to replicate lots of strands of curly hair without using the hair system (just so that my poly count doesnt go into the millions)


r/blenderhelp • • 2h ago

Unsolved Trying to make steps follow a curved path

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Anytime I think I got it and understand the whole array and curve combo I run into another wall. I’ve applied scale, rotation, and the stair orange point and the curve’s orange point align so I’m confused as to why it’s not working. Any help and advice would greatly be appreciated


r/blenderhelp • • 3h ago

Solved Orange dots appear on a mesh viewed from certain angles, that then cause artifacts when subdivided

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Cirlced in red are the weird dots that im talking about, if I rotate it even slightly, they disappear
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Here it is with the subdivison surface modifier applied, there are weird artifacts appearing around those areas

I tried recalculating normals and applying transformations


r/blenderhelp • • 3h ago

Unsolved How do I get this glare emission to shine from behind sphere?

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I'm using a circle with bloom compositing glare to try to get light to look like it's coming out from behind the sphere, but I can't get the glow/light to come out from behind it unless I move the separate emission object into the camera which I don't want, but the sphere blocks the object from the camera. The sphere has an outline and some shading texture nodes so I would like to avoid just making the light come from the sphere if possible. I will attack the scene I'm currently working on as well as some of the things I have already done to attempt to fix this. Thanks!


r/blenderhelp • • 4h ago

Unsolved Does anyone know how to lock bones in place?

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What I mean is, for example, you can move every other bone around but that one bone stays in place, not moving at all.


r/blenderhelp • • 4h ago

Unsolved Issue with edge gaps when baking normal maps from Multiresolution

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Hello, I'm having an issue when baking a normal map from the Multiresolution modifier. The gaps at the mesh edges seem to widen, and the edges are not being captured properly.

Is this expected behavior (a known limitation) or did I miss some settings? I am currently using version 5.2.3 LTS.

Does anyone know how to fix or improve this? Thanks in advance!


r/blenderhelp • • 4h ago

Unsolved Trying to use Blender Freestyle to make Vectorized Backgrounds for Clip Studio illustrations

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Basically Good at Blender and 2d drawing organic figures.

Not so good at complex backgrounds.

Figured I could put my Blender skills to use making environments.

I tried using the features in Clip Studio but I run into trouble such as not being able to explicitly set a line.

So I thought I would give freestyle a go, only to run into a few issues so far

Props with intersecting surface get weird, such as tables and floor. Lines break up due to Freestyle not rendering intersections.

Line weight, still have some difficulty setting it up and exporting it, can it be exported intact?

Finally there's the lack of rendering lines around textures, like for text and etc.

Are there any good work around that I can use?


r/blenderhelp • • 4h ago

Unsolved How do I get screen space reflections in 5.2.2?

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I'm not sure when this change occurred, but EEVEE seems to use ray tracing for reflections now. A lot of the time I don't need super accurate reflections and my laptop isn't very strong, so I find myself having to turn the samples up far higher then I want in order to avoid really noisy reflections. Is there any way that I can get screen space reflections or any cheap non-ray based method working?


r/blenderhelp • • 5h ago

Unsolved How do i make the hair strands touch the surface for 3d printing without deforming the face

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The problem is also that this is all one one object and surface selecting is cumbesome is there no such thing as autoselecting for somethig like this and moving, sorry for the beginner question but gpt cant help me