Questions tagged [keyframes]
Keyframes are specific frames where key points of an animation are defined by the user.
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Audio Keyframes - can't change volume
I'm trying to do audio mixing in Blender Video Editor. I add a keyframe on the Audio track and then set the Volume. But it immediately gets set back to 1.0. What am I missing?
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Vertices Overlaying Object Move in Edit Mode, Object Doesn't
I just upgraded to Blender 4.0 and something weird is happening to my mesh. When I play the animation in Edit Mode, the vertices overlaying the object move but the actual object doesn't.
The second ...
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in bpy, using bpy.data.libraries.load, how can I access the remote scene object?
I made a bpy script to load a remote blender file with
bpy.data.libraries.load
I've been able to access remote objects, materials and keyframes associated to copy ...
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Blender 4.0 - Move Keyframe Precision?
In Blender 3.6 I used to be able to precision move keyframes by holding the CTRL key while moving them. This doesn't seem to be the case in 4.0.
How do I do this in 4.0?
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Part of a Mesh Not Being Included in Bones
beginner here. Seeking help on below.
I'm having issue on the top part of my mesh not being included in the armature/bone.
This is the view when I'm not doing any movement:
But when I try to rotate ...
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AnimAll: Why when I press insert key in the animation workspace, my timeline don't show any keyframe
My blender version is 4.0.1, I had also try before blender 3.6 but both of them also not shown the keyframe at timeline. I had tried press I and scroll up the timeline but still can't see the ...
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Green properties keep reverting to a specific value
So I'm doing this famous donut tutorial. Well, when I add a solidify modifier for the icing, I can't change its thickness to be less than 0.1 m. When I try, it lets me input any value like 0.0015 m, ...
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How to edit the position and scale of objects that have keyframes on those properties
I have animated a sequence. It has keyframes on scale, rotation and location. So in order to composite the 3d animation, I will have to scale down the models and change their current positions.
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Baking sound to F-curve in keyframe produces no results
I want to animate a shader node from a sound file (showing an open or closed mouth if the sound crosses a threshold). I follow the suggestions here, here and here, but the graph editor shows nothing ...
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Value node keyframe missing in graph editor
I am trying to bake a sound to an F-curve as input to a value node in the Shader editor. I follow the suggestions here and here. I can add a keyframe to a value node, open the Graph Editor, and I ...
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How to automatically offset many keyframes in a sequential order?
Is there a way to automatically sequence hundreds of keyframes?
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How do I animate a character without creating 100's of keyframes?
I have a basic rig with a character. The only things that are moving are the torso, arms, and the knees.
For my beginning pose, I insert every available keyframe as the base pose. On phase 2, I ...
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It is possible to keyframing strings?
I have a Geometry Nodes that shows a string. And I need to change this string during the animation.
It is possible to change this string like you do to change an integer value?
In my example I change '...
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How do I create multiple instances on the same point at specific intervals?
I've been doing a motion graphics project where I'd like a set of markers to move along a curve, to appear at one end of a track, translate across the screen, react when they reach a target, and ...
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When moving Camera a keyframe is set on every object [closed]
I made my second animation and wanted to animate the camera. I added an empty object that the camera can track.
When I move the camera to point a (set a keyframe) and move it to point B (set a ...
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Duplicating GreasePencilFrames changes their editing behaviour? (Bug?)
Im instancing some GreasePencilFrames via code. With:
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Changing image textures with keyframes
currently I am using the alpha channel of an image to give a robot face some eyes with changeable material:
Now I want to animate the eyes and I exported 7 frames with different looks of the eyes and ...
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Animate curve point by point
I am loading the data of a line from a csv file to create a curve. If I animate the curve by keyframing the "factor end" property in the UI, I get the visual animation I want, but the ...
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rigid body sim with keyframed objects
I have a crate with keyframes set to passive. And a lot off balls with rigidbody set to active. I want the balls to drop in the crate and then leave the shot with the balls in the crate. Is there any ...
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Mid animation, how do I reset my character to it's default pose, without having the history of the previous animation reversed
I started an Animation, my character did a Flip 360, I did all the keyframes. Now my character is in a different place.
How do I reset my characters Rotation to its original pose?
But also that the ...
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How to hold frame in video render
The cube is not moving for the first 30 frames so I want to render only 1 frame of those and then hold the rest 29 frames and then the cube will start moving after frame 60 to frame 90
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can we please add a way to view modifier keyframes
I mess with a lot of alembic files and I animate the alembic cache sometimes. The problem is I can't see the keyframes. They don't show up in the graph editor, they don't show up in the dope sheet, ...
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Auto-fixing transform after enabling/disabling child of constraint
I don’t have a particularly specific problem, rather a common one and I have never seen anyone trying to solve it in this way.
Is there a way to automate the change in bone/object position when the ...
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How do I get back the bar between duplicate keyframes?
[Frame 120 is a duplicate of frame 119 just like 114 and 115 but the grayed bar is not showing like it's supposed to between frame 119 and 120.
How do I get it to show back? Even other duplicates I ...
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Dope Sheet Action Editor turned orange. I think I've changed a setting somewhere on accident, how can I undo it?
If you open a new blender file and open the Action Editor in the Dope Sheet, it looks like this:
Nice and clean, empty, and gray. In this new file, changing the End frame of the Timeline also sets the ...
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My object wont rotate 360 degrees instead id only does a fast 180
I only startet using blender so i am an amateur and probably messed up quite a lot in my project so be kind.
When I want to animate my objects (a head in this case) to rotate 360 degrees the "...
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Jump to next keyframe not working
Basically, it wont let me jump to previous or next keyframes. Neither the buttons themselves or the shortcuts (up and down arrow) will work, and i cant find like a setting that has changed it for some ...
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Can't find and change Keyframes in Joint Take
I'm new to Blender.
I bought a .blend file with an animated bird. I want to extend the animation and change it, but I don't understand where to find the keyframes. There is just one Keyframe line, but ...
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How to Subdivide Keyframe Curves in Graph Editor (Create Keyframes for Every Frame)
Is there a way to automatically create/insert a keyframe for every frame on the timeline for an animated object?
In other words, I have an object that moves from point A to point B, with two keyframes ...
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Can't move imported animation in DopeSheet?
Blender 3.2.0 June 2022. I imported this nice man into my two object scene. He comes with a nice animation. I can't move the animation to begin at a different frame.
I've tried selecting all and ...
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Make auto-keyed animation smoother
Autokeying makes the animation look very janky and rough, how can I make it more smooth?
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Set the frame before, and after currently selected keyframe to 0 automatically?
As title says.
Since blender cant do corrective shapekeys without the tedious process of setting up drivers, it would actually be quicker for me to just sculpt in the fix per frame in most cases.
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Odd bone rotation when keyframe position changed
When I press "g" and slide the keyframes to a different timeline position a specific bone starts rotating strangely. There are no constraints on this bone. I have tried several different ...
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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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Branching animation into two different endings
I had a need to make an animation with two different endings. Does Blender have a tool or functionality to quickly switch between two different animation keyframes? You can of course create two ...
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Storypencil flicker
When using Storypencil and I go into the VSE, I get a flicker/stagger/lag during playback.
Could I be doing something to make that happen? What could the remedy be?
Thanks so much!!
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Why does the rotation of my keyframes not get saved?
So, I'm new to Blender and currently working on my second ever turnaround of a low-poly model.
I've selected the object, set a keyframe range from 1 to 100.
Added one rotation keyframe on frame 1 and ...
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How can I derive an action name based on the mesh selected?
I have a simple cube that has a keyframed location from Frame 1 to Frame 48
Here is a code that shifts the keyframes by 2
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How can I bake many Rigid Body objects to keyframes at once?
I have an absolute ton of different objects in a Rigid Body simulation and I’m wondering: Is there a way to bake them all to keyframes at once? I just simply can’t do them individually.
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Shape keys cloth simulation - GLB file size
I'm using Blender to export GLB animation files for Web use. These animations are cloth simulations that are then transformed into shape keys by exporting an .fbx and .mdd file then imported back into ...
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Automatically set the distance of keyframes
Let's say I have an animation where every key frame is set on every 15th frame, after playing it I realize that the distance of the key frames must be shortened, to say, place all the key frames 5 ...
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Constant Interpolation in my animation not working
The pose of my rig is changing on non keyframed frames even though I have the interpolation mode set to constant interpolation, which should only effect keyframed frames. The issue seems to only be ...
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How to stop object from moving past last keyframe?
I have a simple animation showing a landing spacecraft. The problem is that after the object's last keyframe it still keeps moving--very slowly--like a breeze is pushing it across a layer of ice. How ...
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armature keyframe timeline?
hey all a quick question here , so I have this armature (object mode ) which is already animated as keyframes , when I go to pose mode to animate every bone , the keyframe of the object mode are in ...
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Multiple animation keyframes in the same frame issue
Never have seen such an issue before. But recently after the animation baking or copy-pasting KEYFRAMES, I get multiple keyframes in one frame (see X rotation f-curve). Did I mistakenly toggle some ...
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Cannot see keyframes for objects
I'm pretty new in Blender when it comes to the features, so I hope this is just a button I accidentally clicked.
I was animating as per usual, but then the keyframes for my non-greasepencil objects ...
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How can I fix the position of the first keyframe while scaling all others?
I have this code that scales all keyframes by half.
But the problem is that it also scales the first keyframe and moves it near zero.
I want to mimic the scaling of keyframes in the viewport editor ...
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can cos() function have more variety in terms of animation movement?
I always use cos() driver expression to make simple loop animation.
1st animation curve is baked result of cos(frame/5) of driver expression.
And I think it's too predictable and it needs to be 2nd ...
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Is there an easier way to keyframe a curve than shape keys?
I have a character that I render in multiple poses. The character has a chain, and I need to make sure the chain looks correct in each pose.
At the moment, what I do, is this:
Create the new pose
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How to add follow path at a specific timeline with other animation keyframes?
I've been working on a scene where a plant is blown over by the wind and then rolls in a circular motion for a while.
I've been watching tutorials on how to make different parts of the plant move (...
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