Questions tagged [timeline]
The basic purpose of the Timeline is to control movements of your objects in 3D space. The Timeline isn't the one really moving your objects in 3D space. Rather, the Timeline gives you insight as to when what will be where in the 3D space.
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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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My cloth physics stop working when baked, what's going on and how can i fix it?
I'm trying to follow a towel tutorial. However my physics aren't operating correctly. Even before baking my cloth only will fall correctly when i hit play, then tab out of object mode and into edit, ...
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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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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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How to drive an armature from a gear/horn animated on the timeline
I have an Armature with an Inverse Kinematic that I wish to 'push' radially from from a gear horn. I have both the gear animated on a timeline and the armature built. I don't understand how to get the ...
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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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How to copy keyframes in the timeline from start to end without copy pasting
I have an object which animates up and down, from frame 0 to 20. In order to replicate this motion, until frame 250, I select the first 2 frames copy, then move the scroll bar, to the next frames then ...
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How to make this object wobble with animation gradually getting slower
I'm trying to do an animation of an object, which is struck by a hammer (as reference). When the object is struck I have made some keyframes of the movement (Rotation & Location), and distributed ...
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Can't lengthen animation timeline [duplicate]
I'm trying to do a simple animation, but for some reason the length of time is stuck on 250 frames, even if I put it to 800 (or whatever). I see this orange strip under the 250. The action stops at ...
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How to create Cloth Simulation for Deflating a net wrapped around balloon in Blender?
I am trying to wrap a net (made out of torus shapes) around a balloon.
As the balloon deflate, I hope to make the net get flat and flat (on the ground.
I was exploring the inflate and deflate on ...
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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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How to identify Keyframes in the Timeline
I inserted Keyframes for both Location, Rotation and Scale in the time line, in the exact same spot.
It's easier to differentiate what Keyframe is for what location or rotation in the Graph Editor as ...
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Change the nanosecond markers in the timeline from 00:32 to 00:30
When you press CRTL + T inside the timeline, it changes from displaying frames to displaying seconds and nanoseconds. I have seen that without closely zooming in, the nanosecond and normal second ...
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How can I move a Motion Tracked Camera Solve on the timeline?
I motion tracked a scene in blender. I now want to add frames to the beginning of my time line and thought the best way to do that would be add frames to the end and move everything forward along the ...
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Object constrained along curve rotates unexpectedly when scrubbing timeline
I want the ball's rotation to not be affected for testing purposes. I have animated the Evaluation Time of the curve. When I scrub the Evaluation Time part (the field I animated), it works as expected....
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Moving animation keyframes breaks all
When I want to move a group of keyframes the entire sequence breaks
How should I move them?
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How to rotate and spin a cone in a cylinder
Im trying to get my animation of this cone rotating around a cylinder to also spin along is local Z axis while is rotating around the cylinder, how could i do this, ive tried setting new keyframes ...
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Super low fps when I import my own exported obj or fbx file
I have made my own head with hair in blender. But when I export it to fbx or obj the file is super slow and I cannot do anything... The fps is below 1 when I want to play the timeline. Is there ...
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Dynamic Paint Irrespective of Time Stretching
I have this Dynamic Paint setup which influences the mapping of some droplets. As the splash happens, it wipes the droplets away based off of the merging of the two Weight Maps.
The only problem is ...
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Reverse time/direction geometry nodes
I have instances traveling along a curve based on the factor of 0 to 1 in a circle. I would like to click the switch and have the instance start traveling backwards from it's current position on the ...
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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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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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Disable playback looping in timeline
I'm attempting to do a walk animation with Auto keying. But when I reach the end of the timeline, it loops back to the beginning and overwrites my previously animated camera...
Is there a way to ...
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Applying size change to an object for all keyframes
I want to make the monkey (highlighted) larger on the x-z plane for all the keyframes, but I can only apply the scale to one key frame and not the rest. I get into Edit mode, type ...
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Using AutoPath constraint how do I make object armature move along Nurbspath at frame 850?
I assign the armature to follow the Nurbspath but I want it in its original position when it was hitting a punching bag, then move it to the next area where it will begin moving along the NurbsPath at ...
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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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How to fix misaligned timeline cursor/scrubber in VSE?
So basically, the blue line / cursor / scrubber is not aligned to the blue box that has the current time written on it in the VideoSequenceEditor
the current frame that plays in the preview and single ...
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Time-scale an animation in Blender 2.49
How can I time-scale an animation in older Blender v2.49? In the newer versions there is the ...
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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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How to auto-select camera, based on selected marker in timeline editor?
I work a lot in the Timeline Editor. If I bind a camera to a Marker and it is named the same way, I thought that maybe I could have a script that auto-selects the corresponding camera after selecting ...
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Custom start and end in the timeline
In this video, if you take a look at the timeline at 2:48 there are white "custom start and end" arrows in the timeline, called shot-6a and end, It looks ...
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Show only specific transforms in timeline/graph editor
I have a scene with hundreds of objects of which I want to animate the rotation, location and size. If I select all objects, the timeline gets a little messy. That's why I want to hide everything ...
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Animation remap driven by parameter
I would like to remap a curve animation based on a parameter.
Say, a cube moves a complex animation on Z axis within 30 frames.
This animation needs to be syncronized with other objects with minimal ...
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Timeline drag is jumpy and unusuable [closed]
I'm unable to consistently drag the frame indicator on the timeline, or the dopesheet, or the vse, or anywhere the timeline is available. The cursor keeps jumping back to the previously selected frame....
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Yellow line in timeline
So I'm making an animation mixed with physics such as Rigid Body and using the particle system for effects. But when I add a collision plus a rigid body, this yellow line in the timeline appears. As I ...
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How do you disable the alt+ mouse wheel scroll = moving frames in timeline. I end up accidentaly keying on the wrong frame with this
How do you disable the alt+ mouse wheel scroll = moving frames in timeline. I end up accidentaly keying on the wrong frame with this.
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Move Keyframes Hotkey Python
I'm trying to Replicate the "G" key for transforming a keyframe in the Dopesheet/Timeline.
However, with my script I get no feedback (no errors, no movement, nothing):
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How do I jump to location of the Header in the Timeline?
When my timeline is expanded and I play an animation for a little while then the header goes off to the right and I don't see it anymore. Is there a hot key to jump to the location of the header?
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Nothing is shown in the Timeline [duplicate]
It is the first time I use blender.
I ran into an issue when I tried to insert a keyframe on the "Phase Offset" but nothing showed for the Timeline seen in the figure below. I tried to run ...
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Why does Blender say, "No more keyframes to jump to in this direction"?
Sometimes while editing keyframes I'll see this message when attempting hotkey to the next or previous keyframe: "No more keyframes to jump to in this direction." The timeline is full of ...
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Accessing a scene property from geometry node
I am wondering if one can retrieve a certain value from a scene in order to use it further in a geometry node. More specifically I use the Sun position built-in add-on, thus I can see the current time ...
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Saving the state of objects at specific keyframe
I am trying to create a game asset in blender and for better accuracy and in order to be more realistic, I am using the physics tool for the asset I am trying to make.
However upon interacting with ...
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Difficulty renaming timeline markers
I'm new to working with timeline Markers. Frequently, when I try to rename a
marker (by pressing F2
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“Pull to ...
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I can only edit the time-line
As you can see from the image I'm stuck in the timeline, I pressed some hotkey but I don't know which one.
Thank you
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How can I make an object appear in timeline at a certain frame?
How can I add a specific object to my timeline at a certain frame?
I want to add a flag which should float over a pre-baked water fluid simulation. I baked a drop falling into water. After frame $120$,...
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Show only rotation keyframes in the dopesheet?
Is there a way to show only rotation keyframes in the dopesheet? Or only scale, location ,etc.
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How to make this animation smoother? / Trouble with rotation in pose mode
So I have this skateboarding animation I'm trying to make and right nows its really choppy :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScIIR_mVqUE
Im trying to recreate this trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Keyframe jumps back to Pose Mode
I am working on an animation and have a problem with the keys in the timeline. Until now it was always like the last keyframe in the timeline was fixed if there did not come any keyframes after that. ...
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How do I move a video object on the timeline?
I have 2 videos that I have brought into my scene as image planes. They play fine but I would like to have them begin on the timeline at different times, maybe one video at frame 1 and the other at ...
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