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.
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How to fix Blender Bug, "No more keyframes to jump to in this direction"
Initially, with the issue, I couldn't move or manipulate the object in any way except with the hotkeys like g and r, and then I found the problem. In the log for blender, it kept spamming the message: ...
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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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How to duplicate an animated object, to have separate animations?
I have modelled a garage door, five flaps that rise 'up and over'. I laboriously set key frames for five 'Empty's; each flap is parented to its Empty, the Position and Rotation use Delta Transforms. ...
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Animation Node: Bake to Keyframes (convert animation)
Followed a tutorial on Animation Nodes by Jacques Lucke on Youtube the other day and tried a very basic setup. This was my very first AN test.. As I would like to render it on a renderfarm, I have to ...
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Bake Mesh Sequence Cache to Keyframes or Shape Keys?
I have a Mesh Sequence Cache modifier that references a .abc file. Is there any way I could bake the modifiers' motion to the object so it doesn't have to reference the .abc file?
I'm doing this so ...
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Keyframing Modifiers
I am trying to keyframe the shrinkwrap modifier so that a label appears on a surface in an animation. If I select the frame and keyframe the shrinkwrap modifier (by right clicking on the Wrap Method ...
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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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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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Moving a Bezier handle only moves the keyframe
When I grab a bezier handle on a keyframe it only moves the keyframe. This is with the aligned bezier handle type enabled as well. To top it off, when I make a new keyframe ahead of the broken ones, ...
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Hiccup on looping lego walk cycle
I have noticed that’s this topic seems to be a common theme but what ever I have seen on other questions doesn’t seem to help. My character starts in the middle with his walk cycle and using math ...
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how to change the location of all keyframes in blender timeline at once
I have an animation that has 129 frames. My problem is that the rotation and location of the object are not right.
I want to change the location and rotation of all 129 frames at once.
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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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How to add an image as a single key frame
I am working on a 2d animation in which i had to import images from photoshop in order to create moving bg. I am importing image as planes, but it's applied to entire timeline. I want it to be applied ...
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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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inserted a rotation keyframe but need to move the starting position
so i created a rotation keyframe but its not positioned correctly, i would like to move this to a specific coordinate, but what happens is it "jumps". What I expected was it for it to rotate ...
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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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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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get newly created keyframe in python
I would like to get a reference to a keyframe when I create it. Alas, keyframe_insert() returns a bool indicating success, not a handle to the keyframe.
In my application, each keyframe may need a ...
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Rotating multiple objects in animation
I am trying to animate a drone with 6 spinning propellers in version 2.79b. I can make the props spin in object mode by selecting them and choosing individual origins for pivot center, however when I ...
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How to stop independent actions on multiple armatures from fighting with each other
It's a little hard to explain, so I've created a video to accompany it.
I'm just trying to get the basics of animation actions in blender, but am coming across some nasty problems, that aren't ...
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Duplicating GreasePencilFrames changes their editing behaviour? (Bug?)
Im instancing some GreasePencilFrames via code. With:
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"Graph Editor" animation handles missing?
This is a very very very simple question and probably simply a mistake on my part but I'm asking on the part of all other people who (like me) aren't the best at animation.
I have a very simple scene ...
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cannot delete keyframe, seems to be unattached to any object
I'm making an animation in blender using some vrms I imported from vroid. I'm trying to delete a keyframe, that keyframe appears in the animations timeline and the top of the dope sheet. But if you ...
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Animations become messed up after rotating whole object. Is there an absolute (non-relative) posing mode or something?
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I manually create keyframes with an option to include whole bone system of posed character. I wish to render animations of this character from 8 different angles, so I tried rotating it in ...
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Is there a way to take keyframes and snap them to the value of neighbors keys?
There was a script I used in Maya, called Snap Animation by Aaron Koressel, what it did was "Takes current selection of keys and offsets it's values so that it lines up with the neighboring key. ...
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Copying animation between different rigs
I want to copy the animation from this mixamo rig to the Springtrap rig (after his idle animation and head turn). After copying and pasting the keyframes he just, explodes. I think it is because the ...
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Is there any way to turn coordinates into curve?
I recorded fly camera movement, so I got keyframes with coordinates.
Is there any way to turn the camera coordinates in keyframes into curve?
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How to rotate/spin an animated soft body object
Probably there's a easy solution to it, but I cannot manage the following:
These two balls are both Soft Body and are colliding into eachother thanks to a force field. I want to give these balls more ...
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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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Make smooth texture transition animation in BGE
I have a skydome model to use in my game and 2 sky materials for it I want to have it fade between during an animation, like a day-night cycle with a smooth transition between day and night skies. I ...
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Mask Keyframes not showing in graph editor
Blender has a masking system which is available in both the Image Editor and the Movie clip editor. The issue however is that when you add key frames to the mask, it shows up on the dopesheet but not ...
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How do I apply time remapping?
So, I have an animation which should be at half the speed that it originally was. So I time remapped it. But when I did this, the animation did what it was supposed to do, it played at half speed. But ...
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Global Slow-mo effect - Animating Time scale
Is there a way to animate the timescale of a scene for a small amount of time?
I'm looking to create an animation, and in the middle it goes from 1.0x speed, to 0.125x speed (1/8th normal speed), but ...
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Is there a delta transform for collection?
I made this guy here, he is made of 29 individual objects, I want to draw over it with grease pencil, but I cant rotate him with the rest of the frames. Its nice that I can use the delta transform to ...
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How do I give a keyframed object a bit of vibration/shaking when it's at the destination point?
I made a robot with moving parts on it's body but when the parts move from the starting point to the ending point, I wanna give it some vibration like it moved with a certain force. How can I do this?
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Visual Keying not Properly Recording IK When Baking Animation
While animating something recently, I've come across something I've never seen before. I had just finished the following animation, and since I had used the spring bones plugin to simulate the hat ...
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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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why did my keyframes disappear in the graph editor when they show up in the timeline?
I have the camera selected, but I don't seem to get why they are gone. I also dont have the only show errors option selected.
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Is there a way to only store keyframes of only selected bones in poseLib?
What bones does "Add New Pose" operator store in Pose Library ?
I am animating with "Blenrig" Character Vincent and it has lots and lots of bones. When I try to store poses it creates keyframes for ...
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Creating many objects with different materials fast with python
I would like to create an animation of many spheres (20000). At every keyframe I would like to assign every sphere a new colour. I manage to create the animation of the spheres with all the same ...
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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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