Copy animation to other objects

Support Animation and Rigging
1

Hi,

I have an animated square

http://imgur.com/UpXDLvU

and I want to copy the animation to the other squares in the scene but for them to remain in the same Y position.

I have tried the Ctrl - L make animation link but it just copies the grey squares to the exact position of the green one.

Any ideas please?

Thanks

2

Add a Child Of Constraint to the other squares:

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They then copy what the first one does. :eyebrowlift:

Cheers, Clock.

3

Thanks but that isn’t really creating the desired effect:

It seems to be shrinking the child object and I also want to be able to offset the time so that the squares animated one after the other.

4

Hi,

for that scale problem you need to apply scale on your objects, make sure it’s 1,1,1 (x,y,z).
If you want the animation offset you’ll want to duplicate the action (dopesheet->action editor mode), then take all the keys and move them like you want.

5

OK, so plan B it is then…

If you have keyframed the scales on the first object - you need to tell me this… Then you can simply;

Go to the Graph Editor, select all the Keyframes (A key once or twice) and copy the keyframes from this one.

Insert ONE keyframe for each square at Frame 1 for the same thing.

Paste the Copied keyframes from the first square then move them in X (key G X and a value in frames Return, e.g. G X 10 Return).

So I don’t keep guessing how you have animated this, post the blend file please…

Cheers, Clock.

6

Better still:

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Set actions (Keyframes, etc.) on one square.

Copy the object.

Move the Actions for the copy in the NLA Editor.

Cheers, Clock.

7

Thanks for the help - managed to copy and paste the frames via the dope sheet/action editor.

Sorry for not being clearer.

Thanks again.

8

You’re welcome, pleased you solved it.

Cheers, Clock.