Forum: Blender


Subject: How do you enter a keyframe on the timeline?

3dz opened this issue on Jan 13, 2007 · 9 posts


3dz posted Sat, 13 January 2007 at 4:40 PM

How do you enter a keyframe on the timeline? I in trying to see if I can animate a camera using interpolation. :unsure:


haloedrain posted Sat, 13 January 2007 at 4:44 PM

have the object you want to have a keyframe for selected and hit the i key


3dz posted Sat, 13 January 2007 at 5:08 PM

Thank you that worked great.  Now I have another question.  How do you delete a keyframe? :blink:


haloedrain posted Sat, 13 January 2007 at 5:39 PM

um...that's a harder one.  I think you can select keyframes in the timeline by right clicking and delete the same way you would an object?  I can't check right now, unfortunately.

It should be in one of the animation pages in the manual:

http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/ch14.html


3dz posted Sat, 13 January 2007 at 5:52 PM

Thank you, I should have downloaded this manual. Especially how much I've been working in blender lately. I probably would learn a lot more, a lot faster. :biggrin:


oodmb posted Sat, 13 January 2007 at 6:23 PM

property key frames can be added by clicking i while the mouse is over the property selector/button that you want to make the keyframe for


haloedrain posted Sun, 14 January 2007 at 12:38 PM

Oops, apparently I linked to an old version of the manual, didn't realize they finished updating it in the wiki.  For this you should be fine with the old version, but there are a lot of things that are out of date or just aren't in there, so for future reference use the new one.

Main documentation page: http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Main_Page
User guide: http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual

I'll need to fix that in the link list too.  I really need to make it so that page can be edited by everyone....

A great resource for newer things is the change logs for new versions, which will tell you how to use stuff that may not have made it into the manual yet.


3dz posted Sun, 14 January 2007 at 9:11 PM

That was harder. It took me awhile to find it, but I think I found it. You would think that selecting the keyframe and hitting delete, would delete the keyframe, but it doesn't.  The way I read it, you need to hit the X key.  Here's where I found it:

mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Reference/Windows/Ipo#X

PS. Thank You. :biggrin:


haloedrain posted Sun, 14 January 2007 at 9:30 PM

Oh, sorry, I forgot about the x button.  I use that most of the time because that's where my left hand is anyway so I didn't even think about that.  It is weird that they haven't implemented both though.