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Questions about the Dopesheet editor in Blender. The Dopesheet is used for managing animations and keyframes for the entire scene.

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Action Editor moves multiple tagged objects?

Hello once again Stack Exchange; Today i'm facing the trouble of animation without the use of the timeline, and onto the usage of Dope Sheets and the Action Editor. My Question is how do I ...
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In the dopesheet, setting a new keyframe between two existing keyframes overwrites keyframe data [duplicate]

I'm a technical artist at an indie game studio. Actually, this is an issue that one of our artists is having, and he screenshared his process with me over Google Hangouts. This is what I observed: ...
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Why i can't re-scale the keyframes from a keyed geometry animation on the dope-sheet?

I'm having the problem that i can't re-scale (move) the Keyframes made by keyed animations of my geometry...when i do that the animation just appears as the same as before, but i did move the ...
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Cant paste flipped pose properly

I cant properly flip the pose in dope sheet. I created the 1st half of the walking sequence, now im trying to flip it using shift+ctrl+c(in gif). The problem is it doesnt even paste everything. I ...
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How can I get rid of the link (thick horizontal line) between two keyframes?

Each time I hit 'I' to insert a keyframe in the Action Editor, if the previous keyframe on that channel is linked, the new one will be linked too (with a thick horizontal line). I can't find a way on ...
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Red lines in dope sheet?

I've had no luck googling for it, yet. What do the red lines in the dope sheet mean?
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Why can't I flip key frames?

When animating, I realised not all the key frames get flipped! After selecting a column of keyframes in the dopesheet, I press Ctrl+C to copy them, then Shift+Ctrl+V to paste/flip them, but only one ...
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Dope sheet editor. What does the orange line between keyframes mean? [duplicate]

I start to use the dope sheet view to see my key frames. But I don't understand why for some I have an orange line and not for others like below. What is the meaning of the orange line between ...
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Why does the dope sheet use (inconsistent) white for unselected / deselected?

Why does the dope sheet window in Blender uses a solid white color to indicate that a keyframe is not selected and a color (depends on your Blender theme which color e.g. orange) to represent that the ...
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Where is Keying feature in Blender 2.93

Im' following tutorial in some older Blender version in which you can select Active Keying Set to Available and then where is Auto Keyframming select this icon next to the cursor on picture to prevent ...
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How to change the object of an animations scale when you saved the key frames as LocRotScale

guys fairly new to blender and I ran into some trouble... I worked really hard on an animation saving each keyframe via LocRotScale However now I want to change the object size but I can't... Is ...
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Why can't I copy and paste the grease pencil keyframe?

It is in Grease Pencil mode that DopeSheet does not allow you to copy and paste keyframes. I reset the Keymap settings to factory defaults. I still can't copy and paste. Why? Blender 3.0.0
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Why do Grease Pencil keyframes show up in the Dope Sheet (Grease Pencil mode), but not in the Timeline?

Are grease pencil object keyframes not the same as normal keyframes?
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What is the FPS speed that the animation timeline runs at by default? Blender 2.9

I'm currently learning to animate 3D to export for videogames but I'm having trouble with identifying the FPS speed. When I press PLAY, at which speed does the animation play in the timeline? Is there ...
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Pressing "Play Animation" Not Doing Anything

Original question: I managed to model and rig my first character, and I'm now working on the animation, when I scrub through the keyframes in the timeline, the animation is working correctly, but when ...
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Why do keyframes keep disappearing in the dopesheet?

I've imported an fbx with an "in place" walk cycle from mixamo.com (see below). I then parented the armature to an empty as a way of animating the "in place" walk cycle (tutorial ...
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Having more than more animation on one rig

On this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyI1zfvUjeM at 0:28 the guy starts to explain that he has 3 different animations as seen on the dopesheet. How can I have the animations cut into 3 ...
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Removing Animations in dopesheet action editor

I opened up the dopesheet, and then the action editor. I pressed f, then 2, experimenting with it. But doing that made clones of the animation. How do I delete them?
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How to copy keyframes from one Action to another?

I am looking for a way to copy all keyframes from Action A to Action B with time offset X using python. Any ideas?
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Dopesheet - What is the difference between Select methods Border Axis Range and Border select?

In Dopesheet you have two border select methods. Border Axis Range and Border select. They share the same tooltip, which is made for Border Select. The manual has no info about Border Axis Range ...
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In my GLB I have Actions and Animations; I see them in Blender, but why not the Keyframes?

Can't see the keyframes. Where are they? (Deselecting "only selected object" for the dopesheet:) but how to see only keyframes for specific actions? only show keyframes for "walking&...
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Object still animates despite not having any keyframes in dope sheet or timeline

Despite having no keyframes on my dope sheet or timeline (or anywhere that I can find) my object still animates when I press play. There is one keyframe at the beginning I added, but even if I delete ...
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Why is there a red bar in the dope sheet?

There's a red bar in my dope sheet that I noticed as indicated by the red arrows. Is that a bad thing or is that just part of blender?
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How to group keyframes for materials?

I'm looking for a way to group, move and copy material keyframes. For this I use the Dope Sheet, Action Editor and NLA. Unfortunately, it doesn't show any material keyframes in the Action Editor. If I ...
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Startup script to "frame all" Dope Sheet / Graph Editor after setting frame range

A quick bit of context: I am interested in having a startup script that among other things, sets the frame start and frame end. Ideally this would be in a startup script over a startup file as is it ...
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Hide certain channels from Dope Sheet?

Greetings, I'm working on an animation with 150 objects. I've finished animating and keyframing the objects' transformations, so my next step is to work on their colors. I would like to solely focus ...
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Is it possible in blender dope sheet?

I want to increase or decrease the proportion while keeping the keyframes at regular intervals, but is this function possible on the blender?
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Is it possible to animate a single mesh as if it were multiple objects?

I am attempting to animate a single mesh which appears as a group of separate objects. I want to animate three separate boxes which are joined together as a single mesh for ease of use in the dope ...
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Why do the keyframes show up in the dopesheet but not in the timeline and the graph-editor?

I'm pulling hairs over this. The keyframes for my object show up in the dopesheet but not in the timeline and the graph editor. I have selected the object, tried every other options like view selected ...
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Is it possible to Highlight all Animation keyframes in the dope sheet and make all frames stick to a specific location, all at once?

I downloaded two animations from Mixamo and imported it into blender. Both animations are an idle animation and a random action animation. The action animation starts at a completely different ...
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I can't see Grease Pencil keyframes in the dope sheet

I can't see keyframes in dope sheet or grease pencil timeline. I am using blender 2.83. How to move my strokes from one frame to another?
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How to select animation channels using Python?

How to select channels using python?
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Trapped in Dope Sheet view

I've used Blender a bit, so I've been enjoying how usability has improved in v2.8, but I was in Animation view - timeline, dope sheet and view - and accidentally touched the keyboard - POW! The view ...
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Child of Constraint not working

The influence of the bone I created is set to 0, the animation does not work when I set it to 1 again. video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w2DARNBwQw&feature=youtu.be
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Problem flipping/duplicating keyframes

I seem to be having issues with flipping and duplicating some keyframes. I've tried using Ctrl + C, Shift + Ctrl + V and duplicating keyframes in the Dope Sheet, but I can't get copied frames to work ...
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Dope Sheet Key Automation/Effects/Preset

I have all this elements that are going down on the animation I would like to automate the all the keys one after another so that they follow a standard of creating the elements one after the another: ...
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Dope Sheet keyframes: shear keyframes

I got an animation with blinking lights, animated by an emission and transparent node connected to a mix shader. I want them to go on and off after eachother, instead of all together at one time. Is ...
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How do I get all the Keyframes I see other people using?

I see people using all sorts of keyframes when they push "I". I cannot seem to get these options. When I push "I", I get the following: "All Channels", "Only selected channels", and "In active group". ...
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Where or how do you find the keyframes for properties in the Dope Sheet?

I have some keyframes for the Radius of DoF on the camera. Let's say I want to change the interpolation on the value changing from Linear to Bezier or the other way around. I know I have show only ...
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Same animation to different objects

Say I've got a dozen meshes and I want to animate some features that any mesh can have, regardless of their topology: render visibility, number of subsurface iterations, intensity of a displace ...
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F-curves disappeared but keyframes still work

Perhaps another basic question about a mysterious disappearance. I am using Blender to edit video, and my F-curves have vanished. The keyframes are still visible and apparently functional in the ...
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Is it possible to parent an object to a different bone in 2 different (multiple) animation?

I'm doing multiple animation on a humanoid who has some kind of a sword carrier (I don't knonw the exact word). And so this sword carrier AND the sword are both parented to a leg bone , but only for ...
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Stack several time the same channel?

I have a complex animation movement so I parented my mesh to several empties that I animate separately. EDIT : eg. a robot character, made of serval meshes; which are parented to : a null who ...
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Why multiple blender animations are not showing up in unity when imported

I have followed numerous online tutorials and no matter how many times I watch/mimic exactly what they are doing, I still end up with ONE animation that plays everything at once. I cannot figure it ...
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How to spread out keyframes parabolically

I would like to create an animation in which something blows up, starting at a normal speed, slows down to a stop, and then reforms. I know I can manually spread out the keyframes in the dope sheet ...
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Dope Sheet has red lines

I've searched for other answers but no luck yet, and it is for sure that i have kept the naming consistent, but still i got the problem when i restart my project. and i've tried other's python code ...
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Yellow dots in the dope sheet that can't be edited or deleted

I have those yellow dots with a black center in the dope sheet, and they only appear after the action, and they are related with no bones. I can't edit or delete them. I'm wondering what they are? How ...
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How to find "To scene range" in Blender 3.6.2 LTS Version?

How to find "To scene range" in Blender 3.6.2 LTS Version? I am using blender 3.3.10 LTS then updated to 3.6 and i cant find this button.
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How to get Camera FocalLenght to enter ActionsEditor?

When you select an object, as you put some keyframes for location, rotation and so on, you get an action associated to them but if you select the camera and keyframe the focal length, you don't get an ...
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Changing frame on animating object stops it from spinning around parented object

I have made an animation of gears. When I change the frame 1-10 to 1-5 (so both gears and empty can go faster) in the dope sheet editor, the parent object and middle gear spins on their axis, but the ...
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