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Keyframes are specific frames where key points of an animation are defined by the user.

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What do green/brown(orange?)/yellow attribute highlights mean?

Shown here, a green (location (x,y,z)), brown (rotation (x,y,z)) and yellow (scale (x,y,z)) colored attribute highlight. What do these mean? (And where are they documented?)
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How do I select the best Keyframe Interval for video encoding?

The Keyframe Interval is set to 18 by default. How do I know if I should change this? I have Perceptually Lossless quality set. Will Blender adjust Keyframe Interval as needed or do I need to figure out what the best setting for my needs are? How do…
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Colours relations in blender?

So I was just wondering what all the colours mean in blender. For example: Yellow is keyframe relation? Green is between keyframes? Also seen a purple coloured things, for the lack of a better word, can anyone point me to the wiki if possible…
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Can't add keyframes properly

I am very inexperienced so if the solution is simple no hate please. I am trying to add more keyframes but it says: F-Curve with path= 'location'(2) cannot be keyframed. Ensure it is not locked or sampled. Also, try removing F-Modifiers. I have no…
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Efficent way to let objects appear/disappear

I have some objects which I want to disappear, if they are out of view. I used the technic to keyframe viewport and render visabibilty. The main issue I have with this technic, if I want to scale my keyframes or move the keyframes it works until…
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When I move or scale objects, keyframes are being added

When I move, for example, my camera's view to a different place on the timeline, keyframes are being added even if I don't press i. Same thing if I move or scale an object. It never happened before, so I've probably changed a setting but I don't…
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Hotkey (or other quick way) to insert a keyframe for only one component of a vector-valued property?

I want to keyframe only the x-value of the rotation while the y and z are being animated independently. (If you want to know why, I'm making the camera continuously revolve about the z-axis at the center of the scene and using the x rotation to…
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Delta Keyframes, how to use

If I want to keyframe a simple location change then I just set a key frame by moving the object to its initial location, press I, select location keyframe, move the timeline cursor to when the change ends, move object to next position, make another…
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Numerical value of keyframe in the Graph Editor

I'm manipulating animation keyframes in the Graph Editor in Blender and although my keys are clearly marked "Value", I can't see exactly what the value of this key is ; I can only eyeball its location by manually moving the keyframe up and down the…
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Removing Location Keyframes from LocRotScale?

I am working on a Minecraft animation with the ender dragon. I first made sure that the flying was correct before I did anything else and by habit i used LocRotScale when setting the keyframes. Is there a way to convert LocRotScale to just…
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Green properties keep reverting to a specific value

So I'm doing this famous donut tutorial. Well, when I add a solidify modifier for the icing, I can't change its thickness to be less than 0.1 m. When I try, it lets me input any value like 0.0015 m, but when I hit enter, it goes back to that 0.1 m.…
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How can I adjust the interpolation on an OSL shader keyframe value?

I have an OSL shader that I added to a material. I keyframed one of the float properties on the shader. How can I view this on the graph editor? Right now the only way I know how to change the keyframe value is go to the NLA view (graph editor and…
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How to copy objects with delayed keyframes?

I made the red cube move for 100 frames I made a blue cube by duplicating a red cube. And since I moved the keyframe back, the blue cube moves after 20 frames But this work takes two steps. Duplicating 2. Moving Keyframes But I want to give…
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how to insert keyframe to all frames?

I insert keyframe at 1 and at 20. I want to insert keyframes at each frames from 1 to 20 how to insert keyframe to all frames?
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How to generate random combinations

I would like to know if collection combinations can be generated. For instance: Imagine that I have a dog in a blender with 40 accessories (a cap, a necklace, a T-shirt, a watch...). I would like those 40 accessories to be randomly combined (the cap…
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