Tip: External Drag and Drop

by Jonathan Williamson

In this quick Blender 2.5 video tip we demonstrate the new external drag and drop functionality recently added to Blender. This feature enables you to drag and drop images and videos from your operating systems file browser into Blender.

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22 Responses to “Tip: External Drag and Drop”
  1. afalldorf
    Posts: 10

    Not sure if you knew this or not but in the sequencer you can click the little plus at the top left to pull down a preview window instead of splitting the view into two different sequencers.

    BTW thanks for the video.

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     May 10, 2010 at 11:21 pm
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    • comeinandburn
      Posts: 53

      great tip Jonathan, and thanks afalldorf I didn’t realize that either.

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       May 11, 2010 at 9:04 am
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    • Guy
      Posts: 1

      Can you drag and drop into the compositor?

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       Feb 4, 2011 at 12:56 pm
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  2. gilbert
    Posts: 4

    what the site sir to download testing version its cool

    thank you

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     May 10, 2010 at 11:58 pm
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  3. Shine
    Posts: 3

    Why it does not work with linux? I tried but nothing happens.
    I use the version 28714.

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     May 11, 2010 at 5:53 am
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    • jonathanwilliamson
      Posts: 1466

      I have heard that there are some issues with this on Linux, but they have been fixed by now. I would suggest trying a new build each day to see if it has been fixed.

      -Jonathan

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       May 11, 2010 at 10:14 am
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      • Shine
        Posts: 3

        thanks !I will try it this night.

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         May 11, 2010 at 3:21 pm
      • Gilbert
        Posts: 4

        sir jonathan how to work

        thank you

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         May 12, 2010 at 2:05 am
  4. johncardozo
    Posts: 10

    Hi, just a question: when I drag and drop an image to Blender it shows the image on the mesh but when I render the scene it doesn’t show anything. What does exactly Blender do with the image when it is dropped on the mesh?
    Thank you very much

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     May 11, 2010 at 10:42 am
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  5. Tobey
    Posts: 98

    Quite impressive, thanks for sharing Jonathan.

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     May 11, 2010 at 2:40 pm
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  6. bardes
    Posts: 53

    the latest build for linux (now) is r28717, thats sad :(

    I’ll see tomorrow…

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     May 11, 2010 at 8:25 pm
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  7. bardes
    Posts: 53

    Another thing, there is an addon that imports images as planes, its really good and easy to use!

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     May 11, 2010 at 8:27 pm
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    • johncardozo
      Posts: 10

      Excellent tip, so useful…
      Thanks, Paulo

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       May 12, 2010 at 8:57 am
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  8. MeshWeaver
    Posts: 37

    saw this on BlenderNation yesterday…it’s a pretty cool feature, but unfortunately the 3D-viewport drag-&-drop texturing doesn’t work for me…my stupid Intel card won’t let me have realtime textures. oh well…

    thanks Jonathan! :D

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     May 12, 2010 at 9:33 am
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  9. Hans Erickson
    Posts: 3

    For those that are having problems on Linux getting Blender 2.5 to run it is probably library dependency issues. If you visit http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/Linux/Ubuntu/Scons there is a list of libraries that are essential for both running and building 2.52

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     May 12, 2010 at 11:31 am
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  10. AlexDS
    Posts: 34

    thanks Jonathan for this tutorial

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     Nov 5, 2010 at 9:21 am
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