Unanswered Questions
4,292 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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How to change animated object's origin without ruining animation?
For example: I have a character and a spoon which he is holding and moving thanks to child of constrain. My character releases the spoon a little bit above a plate. So I came up with idea to use rigid ...
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Blender scene animation exported to Three.js without bones or skinning?
I have a mountain range scene very similar to this:
The mesh is a simple plane extruded to form a low poly mountain range, the animation uses 3 shape keys, a base and 2 for random vertices ...
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How to animate a spinning Coil Spring (mechanic watch)
In a mechanic watch you will find such a coil spring.
The spring is fixed in two points (green crosses) and has a spinning attractor at the inside of the spiral which is moving first clockwise and ...
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Calculating position difference in a driver
Suppose I have an object, that I move from A to B (by pressing the G button) on the XY plane. I want to automatically orient it, so it always faces the direction of the movement. Furthermore, I want ...
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Modify a single plane mesh to match image based on alphas, create shape keys
My goal is to create the shapes of continents as they drifted from Gondwana to the present day.
My proposed approach follows, but I would welcome alternate approaches or comments on this approach.
I ...
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Camera flips 180 degrees following the path
I am new to blender and I tried to animate a camera path following this tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vasfFsxCsAE
The author creates a NurbsPath for camera to follow and an empty to ...
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Relative and Absolute shape keys on the same mesh
is there a way to use both relative and absolute keys together on the same mesh ?
i want to use absolute keys to deform muscle in a way, and relative to animate face shapes. both on the same model.
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Animation showing last frame when played?
To make this simple I have a .blend that you can look at. I have simple logic:
1) When the prop "Active" is true, our object is visible. When false, invisible.
2) When Spacebar is hit, "Active" ...
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When using multiple actions, the animation length property seems to be shared by all actions. How do I fix this?
I am working with multiple actions for my model's animations. One of my actions is a basic "standing still" action that just gives the character slight movements while at rest.. this action only ...
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Offset and time-scale Armature animation in Geometry nodes instances
Is it possible to randomly offset and change speed of animated assets that are instanced on GN points?
I've found a tutorial on Youtube in which author duplicates assets and node groups each time to ...
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How do I move one animation from one blender file to another one?
Okay, so I have two separate blend files and both of them consist of a similar rigged character model with animations. However, one of them has an animation that I want both of them to share. Is there ...
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How can I import an FBX with multiple animations?
Thank you for taking the time to read my question. I have FBX files that I've successfully imported into Blender, and most of them have multiple animations embedded in the file, but when I import ...
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How to retain speed on a "follow path" modifier even if the path is scaled up or down?
I've added "follow path" modifier to my armature and insterted keyframes so that the armature follows the path between 0-100 frames (the offset goes from 0.0 to 1.0).
Everything looks fine ...
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How do I get this rainbow to fade and disappear?
I'm very new to Blender. I had wanted to learn it some day and my young daughter has decided to make a TV show, so I guess that time is now.
I'm using version 2.91 and working in 2D. The rainbow is a ...