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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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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2.8 Metaball Animation -- viewport metasurface doesn't update
I am new to 2.8. I have a metasurface made of three objects, each with some number of metaballs. The metaballs are animated -- the keyframes are inserted on each element's location and radius ...
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Time remapping incompatible with particle info node?
I'm trying to make a spark material that fades to transparent as it reaches its lifetime limit. I've succeeded, but it absolutely does not work with time remapping for some reason. Here is my problem ...
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How to create an image whose alpha value changes according to a curve through time in node-editor?
I connected an image-node with a composite-node and connected a value-node into the alpha of the composite-node. I changed the values and the image changed its transparency.
Then, I connected the ...
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How can I create different animations for a mesh on Blender?
I have an avatar mesh and I want to separate different animations, each animation in a different timeline in order to create blending animation. I do not know how to begin this process on Blender. Can ...
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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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View all timeline pressing the Home key
When pressing Home, the expected behaviour everywhere in Blender is Show all. That applies to viewport, node tree, image editor and more.
In previous Blender versions, pressing Home on the timeline, ...
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Can I enter a timecode instead of a frame number in the timeline to navigate?
Yes. Moving the indicator to the specific spot works well by writing a specific frame number in the Blender Timeline's current frame value box.
However, I am in a situation where I want to move the ...
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Cloth Sim + Time Remapping + location animation = teleporting mesh
Not sure if this has a solution, or may even be a bug, but I wanted to see if anyone could help. B:2.79
Lets make an animation of 20 frames, using a single plane mesh.
Animate the plane location ...
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Sort Custom UIList markers
a little question about UI list, i'm trying to make a custom marker panel.
It's aim is to recense all markers on timeline. Then i have a custom operator to jump to these markers.
I managed to call the ...
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Offset Timeline for Multiple Linked Objects
I'd like to be able to link to groups from a series of .blend files so that the models appear in a single .blend file so I can animate a camera between them, but make updates to the individual .blend ...
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Theming the Timeline Area outside the Playback/Rendering Range
The Timeline Area’s background color seems to be controlled by Theme Space Settings > Window Background — but the background outside the playback/rendering range always seems to be a darker version of ...
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How snap PlayHead to start or end of strip in NLA Editor?
How snap PlayHead to start or end of strip in NLA Editor?
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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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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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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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Time stretching a movie clip not working in render
I have a movie clip in my scene as images on planes. My video is at 60 fps. As this will render twice as many frames, I would like to decrease the frame rate to 30. I have managed to do this in the ...
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Blender Timeline jump Frames
im learning animations and im working on duplicate the model and the animations of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odwQbnA4ErM
But im struggling at 2:43. It seems like not every Frame is ...
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how can i set the timeline to a non integer value (float value)?
I made an animation via python which sets some values on non-integers.
Now i would like to manually change these values.
how can i set the timeline on a non integer value? e.g. 12.5
I know i can ...
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Keyframes disappeared
R-type in 2d animation. I even tried all the stuffs like scrolling and from view section deselecting specific keys like only show keyframes from selected channels, frame all etc but its still not ...
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How do I add keyframes to an object that I want to sculpt at time intervals?
Is it possible to have blender follow key frames based on sculpting differences of an object? I have a glacier in Blender that I am trying to sculpt at time intervals on my timeline, but blender does ...
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Scrubbing Past "Viewport Visibility" Keyframe in Timeline Unselects my Object, Causing All Keyframes/Channels to Disappear
In 2.93.3 (haven't tested this in other versions), when I have a Grease Pencil object in Draw mode, and have a viewport visibility keyframe set on the grease pencil object itself (set via Object ...
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How to view all layers in timeline while animating 2D?
I've been animating this project mostly on a laptop in the past.
I transferred it to my new PC and wanted to keep working on it but all the layers I had opened on the timeline are no longer there. Its ...
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Is there a way to prefetch the timeline?
In the motion tracking part of blender you can prefetch your video to make it play smoothly, is there a way to do that with the regular timeline so if I have a scene at 60 FPS, I can play it at 60 FPS ...
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How to stretch out animation time for a volume object
Blender volumes are great; particularly when I've got a scene (as I do right now) with a number of fluid effects going on. I can simply save them into a directory as a bunch of OpenVDB files and ...
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How to Change Timeline Division Markers to Match Chosen Frame Rate?
I can change the frame rate of an animation easily enough. What I can't do is reflect this change on the timeline. The timeline division markers are displayed in an interval that is different ...
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Audio volume only decreases for a few seconds
When I click on “sound” settings, I can see that I can adjust volume from 1 to for example 0.200. However, when I do that, it only remains 0.200 for one or a few frames max and then returns back to 1....
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time shifting of either solved tracked camera or 'dynamic paint' baking
I am trying to add an animated ship to the real footage of the ocean. I have the solved camera from the footage. I have the ship model. Now I need some wake waves. I can get them using dynamic paint, ...
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Delete keyframes quickly without the menu in timeline
I want to delete keyframes by pressing X without the "menu".
How can I block that menu?
I looked at the keymap editor, I thought, maybe the key is "DOPESHEET_MT_delete" code but I'...
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Video Editing: What is the diff. between Sequence Render Animation & Render Animation?
Good day,
I started using Blender v2.82a a week ago exclusively for Video Editing. I have seen a few tutorials but the following query has not been addressed yet.
Aside from being faster and ...
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Trying to make multiple actions with different durations
So I made two actions on a single armature (to which is attached an object), one for running and one for walking. Now, when I play one and adjust the playback time (timeline, I guess) thingy it plays ...
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How to change object geometry over time in the same model from the command line?
I'd like to write a python script can change (not delete and re-create) the geometry of an object AFTER the initial object has already been loaded by blender.
To clarify, here are the 3 basic steps:
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Keframes aren't changeable!
If I create a second keyframe, the value can not be changed, and it always bounces back to the value of the first keyframe:
View the value of the first Keyframe:
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In blender time line how can I control which frame I want to show/not show?
I rotoscoped a video animation using the grease pencil, and I would like to start messing with the timings. How do you hide certain frames without deleting them?
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Set a different length for each animation
I have a blender model and I have been making a few simple animations with it. Prior to today I could select the animation in the Dope Sheet and go to Timeline, set the Start/End frames and leave it ...
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time cursor shifted in frames in VSE
The time cursor in Video Sequence Editor (VSE) or Timeline is shifted to the right when I right click somewhere in the timeline. The time cursor does not move to the position of the mouse cursor. The ...
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Timeline Matrix (Theoretical Animating)
I haven't been active for a while, but something has come up that I am really intrigued about.
Would it be possible, to have two animation sequences for one mesh rig, and then use python to animate "...
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Timeline: advancing time without evaluating time
While placing keyframes in the timeline it is possible to move the time marker (green vertical line) without evaluating the animation?
On my object, I have some keyframes values that I want to be ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
