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11 questions linked to/from How to extract side-view outline (e.g. top view) of a 3D object to 2D surface?
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Project a 3D object into a 2D object [duplicate]
I'd like to create a 2D object (outline only), as a projection of a 3D object on a plane; for example, I would like the outline I see from the top view (the orange loop, as shown here), to be a 2D ...
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How can I view the perspective projection of an arbitraryy shape onto the plane below?
I just can't find the Blender way to do this. I have two objects (cubes) at a given height above a plane. These two cubes are 5cm apart, say. How can I view the perspective projection of these cubes ...
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Viewport position and direction
How to get Viewport Position, Direction, UpVector? For Perspective and Ortho views. Here is explanation Screenshot:
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Turning a complex 3d object into a 2d contour
I am trying to automate generation of a 2D plan from a 3D ship. For that I need to get a contoured object in some projection. To accomplish that I make the object flat, but there are a lot of vertices ...
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Perspective Flatten Geometry by Shrinkwrap
I have a 3D scene I need to flatten towards the cammera in order for the geometry to still appear 3D when viewed in a 2D game from the front. I've done this in Maya with the shrinkwrap method and the "...
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What is the most efficient way to finely "slice" layers though objects with python
I'm wondering the most efficient way to programatically "slice" though objects to generate a 2D set of faces, vertex loops and derivatives such as face area, and centrons (for more complex ...
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How to get the outline/contour/silhouette of a selected object?
I want to use Python to get the outline/contour/silhouette of a selected object in the Orthogonal View. Just like the orange shape/outline that blender shows when I select the object in the view3D. As ...
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bisect_plane not clearing in python API
Here is my bisect plane command, which does infact produce new verticies along the bisected plane (Blender 2.90): ...
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How to discard vertices/faces according to a geometry or texture feature?
I have a square plane mesh with applied texture (satellite image of an area) and displacement (height map) that gives an overview of a land area with some features like water which I want to remove. ...
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How to get a 2D silhouette of a 3D mesh in Blender 2.8? [duplicate]
I would like to just take a 2D silhouette outline of a side of one of my 3D meshes. I located the question How to extract side-view outline (e.g. top view) of a 3D object to 2D surface? but since it ...
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Copying a meshes intersecting outline from the top down view
I have a sliced shape that I would like to copy it's outline as it's seen from the top down view (looking straight down on it). Example: I have an equation that is sliced by a plane using the ...