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I want to hide an object in the Viewport up to a certain frame in the Timeline and then make it visible (e.g. at frame 30). How can i do that?

Gaia Clary
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  • I see what you mean. However the other question was about how to achieve this for the rendered animation. I changed this question and answer to describe what to do for the Viewport animation. Is that OK to do ? – Gaia Clary Sep 19 '14 at 17:41
  • I added a comment into the other q/a and proposed to merge my q/a into the other one. – Gaia Clary Sep 20 '14 at 10:11

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Make your Object visible at frame 30:

You can keyframe the Viewport Visibility of an Object from within the Outliner:

  • In the Timeline select Frame 1
  • Then open the Outliner
  • Set your Object to Hidden
  • While the mouse hovers over the eye icon in the outliner, press I to keyframe the visibility.
  • Move on to frame 30
  • Click on the Eye icon again to make the object visible

  • Then press I again to keyframe the visibility change.

    control visibility in the Outliner

Note: If you want to achieve the same for your render, then please check the answer in here: How can I animate the Restrict Visibility property of an object?

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  • You might also want to consider the same for the camera to hide it in your render. – sambler Sep 19 '14 at 11:04
  • This no longer seems to work in Blender 2.91. When pressing I it says "hide_viewport property cannot be animated" – Bauxite Jan 01 '21 at 09:35