Questions tagged [keyframes]
Keyframes are specific frames where key points of an animation are defined by the user.
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saving short animations for dropping into timeline
Simple question: is there a way I can make a short animation, say that last for 50 frames, store that animation so it doesn't play on the timeline, but is saved, such that I can later drop it into the ...
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Return active FCurve with python ( blender 3.4.1 )
I would like to get the selected channel in python.
But I Don't find the right function to do it. or maybe it's the way I select the channel with the mouse in the graph editor ?
I tried based on this ...
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Copy/pasting object transformations into bones in pose mode
I'm trying to replicate the transformation animation of an object with a bone in pose mode.
The way I approached this was to copy the keyframes of the selected object, go into pose mode, add a ...
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Reposition animated rigid body
I made a simple animation of food falling from a bag to a bowl, but this animation starts at frame 0 and I need it to start at 2800.
How can I move it?
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Shifting the frame range of a Camera track
I'm having a issue with getting the camera track to work properly once the frame ranges have been shifted.
The situation is, I have been given a shot to track (for the example lets say its 400 frames)...
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How to render interpolated frames in addition to keyframes in python
I am currently using the
bpy.ops.render.render(write_still=not animate, animation=animate)
to render my animation, but this only seems to output the frames on ...
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Mesh doesn't show up in Animation Timeline
I'm having issues with my animation project.
I'm using this tutorial (https://youtu.be/-GtAFAfe5tU?list=PLs4OizsZ7v28LAaRt3ex9yTc94VO32lyy) to animate the face of my character with textures, it has ...
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blender model posing randomly
currently, im workin on an animation, and for some reason whenever i try to do a pose, the limbs that i posed will snap to a random spot. I have tried applying the rest pose as the default pose, but ...
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Non destructively animate on 2's
Looking for a way to have an armature or any other arbitrary object animate on 2's (only change position/rotation every other frame). I cannot just hold every frame for 2, as I want camera and ...
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How can I keep the feet from clipping through the ground?
I am wondering if anyone knows of a quicker or more efficient way to clean up the feet from mocap animations. After retargeting the mocap data to my armature, the feet on my character will usually ...
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How to copy a bone world space location to an empty on all frames?
I have a bone that is animated. It has keyframes on all the frames of the timeline. I need to add to that bone an IK target (empty object) that plays the same animation of the bone before it was ...
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Transform frame of particles sim into object
I want to make this exact frame of the simulation an mesh object so I can append into another file, how do I do that? I searched and didnt find an answer.Its a plane using explode modifier with ...
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How to get "non-action" keyframe data via Python?
I have animated a camera, changing the position and FOV between keyframes (see picture below)
I can reach the keyframes related to CameraAction via Python:
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How to change the Object in Geometry Nodes with keyframes?
To put it simply, I need to change the Object in a specific frame. For example: in frame $0$ the object Info node is Sphere, but in frame $20$, the object Info node is Cube. How can I do it??
I am ...
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How to capture live transformations of a rigid body?
I've tried several scripts and all of them capture the initial object's data and record the same values for all frames. What would I be doing wrong?
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Keyframes not saving rotation
I select the rotation, but when I go to save it as a keyframe, it will either revert immediately, or wit until I move to the next frame and back and it will still have reverted.Video to problem
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How to Copy/Import VSE Content to Another VSE
I'm (kind of) new to Blender and have created a basic "title sequence" in the VSE. That sequence is made up of a couple of text strips with animation via key frames...nothing fancy at this ...
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How could I auto-keyframe a value which is not a transform? EI. Using a value slider in real-time
For context, I am rigging a Dalek, and want to be able to turn the top lights on and off in real time when making animations. I have figured out how to make custom properties work with auto-keying, ...
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Combination of rotation around fixed point and waves
I am new to Blender (downloaded it this week) and I am currently modeling a very basic wave energy converter. It is supposed to move up and down with the waves and pivot around a rigid connection ...
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appearance of rotation not natural
is there a way to make a rotating sphere roll along a surface and look more natural?
Attached is my blend file with a sample. The sphere is rolling along a surface however, due to the fact that its ...
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Group of keyframes that I can't select, delete or move, but they look selected
There's a group of keyframes that I can't select, delete or move, but they look selected. I'm trying to move them to the other side of the timeline
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Add the cubes on specific keyframe
I have a grid 8x8 of cubes and I would that each cube fall down one by one and I imagine that each cube had to assign on a specific keyframe but I don't know how to do in python bpy. Below there is ...
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Delete keyframes from locked channels (bone props or items tab)
I was wondering if there's a way to delete all keyframes on the locked channels in items panel or Bone Properties > Transform panel? As one can do with right mouse click and selecting delete ...
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Where are the keyframes for the textures tab in the Properties
I am using this texture in Compositing
I have tried to find they keyframe for this :
But have not been able to find it
I turned off Only Show Selected and turned on Show Hidden but it's not there, I ...
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Can I control the "var" of a driver manually?
I want to use a driver to open and close a hatch by rotating it on its y axis. So when I move the empty on the z axis the hatch should rotate on the y axis. I locked the empty on a min and max z value ...
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Can you keyframe the aspect ratio of a camera?
I was wondering if there was any way to sort of keyframe the aspect ratio/ resolution of a camera, like from 1.85:1 to 2.39:1 in a single scene smoothly. Is something like that possible inside of ...
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Key frames disappeared
The key frames disappeared, not because of scrolling. Not because of selected geometry, and not because the arrow wasn't clicked. Not because of nodes.
The keyframes in my timeline in the program ...
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Multiple artists contributing keyframes to a shared object?
I have a group of animators, all animating the same object. The object is a figure performing a dance. The gross body movement (body, limbs, neck/head) comes from a motion capture file. Each animator ...
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Keyframes too hight from each others in graph editor
I'm trying to make simple character head turn (only 10 keyframes)
When I've opened Graph Editor, I couldn't see my 3 keyframes together. First(1frame) and last(10frame) keys was too high from each ...
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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?
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Grease Pencil animation problem: old frame persists after making new keyframe (VİDEO)
Why does the old keyframe not disappear even though I put in a new keyframe?
VİDEO: https://youtu.be/57Er6DBfQjk
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Is there a way to increase the frame rate from 30 to 60 without redeploying every keyframe in timeline?
I rendered my animation in 30FPS then found it hard to match the narrative exactly.
So I like to speed up some parts and slow down others, then I need enough frames to do so.
So now I like to re-...
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Is there a way to include material color changes in motion blur?
In both Eevee and Cycles, changes to the material color are not rendering in the motion blur.
For example, if there is a moving cube that is red on frame 1, and keyframed to transition to blue on ...
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setting keyframs doesn't work
good day
(using v3.4.1)
When I try to set a key frame with "I" and choose "insert keyframes" - "only selected channels" or "all channels" it want set a keyframe....
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How do I view the animation keys for my rgb node?
As you can see I have animated the color property but I am not able to see it on my timeline.
How do I make it happen, any help is appreciated.
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GLB exports static object with animation keyframes
I have noticed a strange behavior from the GLB exporter the other day when loading a glb file to https://gltf.report/
The file had an armature with animation and few more animated objects and static ...
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Add keyframe for position of an Image strip with python
I want to add keyframe for position of an Image strip with python in video sequence editor.
I set the value like this:
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Making a complex animation be controlled by a simple value from 0 to 1
Basically, I wanna convert a set of keyframes (If possible) into a simple custom slider, for example, I want to turn a set of 80+ keyframes across bone transforms and shape keys into a single 0 to 1 ...
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Object Origin needs reset for animation
I forgot to set an object's origin to 'center of mass' before adding animation to the scene and object.
I now need to rotate the object around its center, but due to the incorrect origin, the rotation ...
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How do I continue motion past keyframe, automatically?
I knew how to do this once but for the life of me I can't remember:
I have an object that on frame 1 has a keyframe, and on frame 12 has another keyframe (let's call it a translation from 0,0,0 to 10,...
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Keyframes visible in 'Layout' view but not in 'Animation' view
I'm following the donut tutorial on YouTube and am struggling to add keyframes through the node editor like the author does.
Well, the keyframes appear to be added as I can see them when I switch to ...
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How to Interpret FCurve Keyframe Handles
I've been pulling my hair out over this concept for a couple of days now, and I can't find a satisfying answer online.
I want to take each Keyframe in an ...
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Selecting only odd/even frames of an object
How can I select all odd (or even) animation keyframes for an object? Can someone please give me some working code?
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Connect Planes generated by coordinates to a curve
I have some coordinate data generated by an app that I'm generating planes which allows me to visualize in 3d space a path (see screenshot).. Ideally this is good but it would be awesome if I could ...
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Fluid simulation into keyframes?
I'm trying to play fluid simulation in reverse in a dope sheet. I've baked the simulation cache, but the option to bake it into key frames does not exist, it does only for rigid body simulations. I've ...
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2d Animation Stuck on First Frame during playback
I'm new to blender and can't figure out how to solve this.
I've been working on an animation for a couple days in greasepencil with audio. Everything was going ok but I'm not sure what button/setting ...
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How do I go about animating a rigged 3D model based on 3D keypoints of certain joints in the human body?
I have 3D coordinates of certain joints in the human body. Those were obtained from a video. I also have a rigged 3D model of the human body.
What I want is to make the 3D model of the human body move ...
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Playback lag when displace modifier keyframed (pictures)
I'm having a rather confusing problem. Playback in the viewport (material preview) is great (full 24fps, no lag), but only as long as I don't have any keyframes on a displace modified I'm using.
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Clear keyframes from active shapekey using python
I need to clear keyframes from the active shapekey using python. I got this far, this is removing the current keyframe on the active shapekey, but got no clue how to remove all of the keyframes.
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Live Keyframing
Does anybody know if there is a good way to "record keyframes live?". For example - I want to hit the space bar while the playhead is moving to time a parameter manually instead of tediously ...