We are glad to be part of this effort and it is really great that we were able to launch in time for Blendswap’s 4 th anniversary. Both Marius and Oana used Blendswap in the past and we believe that it is an extremely valuable resource for the Blender community. We’ve come to team up with Matthew after several interactions with RenderStreet he kindly wrote about on the BlendSwap blog. When logged in, just go to the billing page and paste the code in the Apply a Coupon field. Then, you message who will send you the RenderStreet coupon code.Īfter receiving the code, go to the RenderStreet sign up page and set up your account (for free). To get a coupon, you must first register as an Associate Member (10 $/month), which gets you unlimited download for any work in the library, you own portfolio gallery and many more. The perk will be available to both current and new subscribers. To reward Blend Swap Associate Members for their commitment, we partnered up with Matthew to offer them a 2 months Silver Plan for free. Launched in 2009, the site gathered a community of more than 48k registered users fostered by founder Matthew Muldoon. What you'll probably want to do, is go into the objects folder, select everything ( A) and then append/link them in.Blend Swap is an initiative to open collaboration that grew to become the biggest library of 3D assets made with Blender, at free disposal for personal and commercial use. Inside there will be several folders for different parts of the file.

Once you're at that file, when you click on it, it will expand just like a folder. When you click the link or append operator, the file browser will come up for you to navigate to the file you want to use. Instead of directly copying everything from a file in like import does, they copy parts of the file, called datablocks.Ī datablock is essentially a piece of information in a file. Now both of these operators work a bit differently than you'll be expecting. With link, you can't modify the objects in the new file, but instead need to go to the original file. It won't cross over to the original file. The difference when it comes to working with these, is that when you use append, you can modify the objects in the new file. blend file, while Link links the elements directly to the original.

However, in order to keep ahead of the Versioning bubble that the Blender Foundation is creating, the version of Blender I will be using in this guide will be Blender 2.91 Alpha. You can use the Append ( File > Append.) or the Link ( File > Link.) operator.Īppend makes a direct copy of the elements in the. As I started to write this guide Blender version 2.83.4 (LTS) was the current version of Blender available on Steam.