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Developer tools · #blender
Learn how to configure Cycles GPU acceleration in Blender, including choosing between OptiX, CUDA, and HIP, and verifying VRAM usage to prevent render crashes.
Add hand‑drawn annotations, effects, or character layers to a 3D scene without leaving Blender. This guide shows how to set up Grease Pencil, animate a lightning bolt over a rotating cube, and discusses performance trade‑offs.
Learn how to animate Grease Pencil strokes in Blender, driving thickness from an armature rotation and keeping viewport performance in check. A step‑by‑step guide with practical tips and a trade‑off discussion.
Troubleshoot missing or flickering transparent objects in Blender Eevee. This guide covers material blend modes, viewport clipping, and GPU settings to fix transparency sorting.
Learn how Blender’s depsgraph separates construction from evaluation, enforces script sandboxing, and uses watchdogs to keep updates incremental—plus how to verify it in practice.
Learn how to use Blender’s Subdivision Surface modifier to smooth a mesh while keeping its shape. Follow a step‑by‑step workflow, verification checks, and recovery tips for Blender 3.5+.
Blender's Principled BSDF covers most everyday materials with one node. Learn the key parameters, a worked glossy-plastic setup, its known limits, and the mistakes that cause broken renders.
Learn how to use Blender's Instance on Points node to create dense, procedural environments without crashing your system by leveraging memory-efficient instancing.
Upgrading to a newer Blender release while keeping the option to revert to the current version requires preserving the existing installation, user preferences, add‑ons, and project files. The main uncertainty lies in where Blender stores its data and how to duplicate or back up these locations without interfering with the new install. What is the recommended