App Notes
Vertical Align Text in Affinity Publisher
You can change the vertical alignment of text in Affinity Publisher — I spent a little too long looking for the right thing in the Paragraph and Character panels. What you want, is the ‘Text Frame’ panel (from the menu, go to View > Studio > Text Frame). From there, click on he ‘Vertical Position’ […]
Read MoreCreate Blender Materials from Image Maps
I just realized I can use the Poliigon Material Converter to build my materials for me…just name them in the same format as they do with their files, browse to the folder using their tool, and things seem to work.
Read MoreChanging the Coordinate System Orientation
This seemed like it should be easy (which it is I suppose), but it took a little searching to find the easy answer. I come from AutoCAD (a long time ago), so the plane that you were working in was called the UCS (the User Coordinate System). Changing the UCS in AutoCAD was pretty easy, you […]
Read MoreCopy With Basepoint
Move the 3d cursor somewhere Hit Shift+S Select “Move selection to cursor” This will move the selected object’s basepoint to the cursor location — you’ll of course have to make sure the basepoint of the object is where you want it.
Read MoreHow to Open the Asset Library in Blender
It’s easy to open the asset library in Blender, just hit shift + f1. You can also hit the little icon in the upper left corner of any of your open panes, and select ‘Asset Browser’ from the options.
Read MoreBlender Bezier Curves
I’ve been wanting to create a bit of a stylized landscape, a bit like a topo map, where each contour line is an actual adjustment in height. To do this, I just wanted to draw some curves. I’m still getting the hang of doing this in Blender, but some general helpful notes: Draw a New […]
Read MorePhotoshop Resize Layer and Mask Together
Resizing the layer and mask together doesn’t always work — actually, if you use the marquee tool first, draw a box with it, and then right click and select free transform, they will resize independently which generally isn’t what you want. To keep them in sync, select the marquee tool, but don’t draw a box […]
Read MoreImport DXF File Into Blender With Correct Scale
When importing, set the scale to 0.0254. This seems to scale it correctly, and based on my initial explorations, it seems as though you can snap to the linework in blender without an issue. Source
Read MoreBlender: Linking to a Collection More than Once
There I was, attempting to add a collection to my scene from another file. After attempting to link to it (File > Link), nothing would happen. It took me a little while to figure out that it wasn’t inserting it because it was already imported. At first, I would hunt around my scene trying to […]
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