Animation Types

Types

Part Animations: Part animations affect your model's position, orientation, and visibility in the scene. See Part animation types here.
Material Animations: Material Animations enables you to create animations of a material's value based or color properties. See Material animation types here.
Camera Animations: With camera animations you can animate as well as switch between cameras. See the Camera animation types here.

Timeline appearance

Each animation type will appear with a color in the Animation timeline.

Part animation are green.
Material animations are red.
Camera animations and switch events are blue.

You can add folders to structure your animations, these are yellow in the timeline.

Furthermore you can import models that contain animations such as Keyframe animations and Deformable meshes. These will appear as purple and orange nodes.

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Time Settings

Common for the animation types (except Curve Fade animations*) are the Time Settings, where you can control the timing and duration of your animation.

Motion Ease
Select if you want the add motion ease to the animation - see the Motion Ease types.

Start
Set the start time for the animation

End
Set the end time for the animation

Duration
the duration will automatically be calculated from the Start and End time. Alternatively you can enter the Duration and Start time - This will automatically fill the End time.

*Curve Fade animations have the easing "built in" to the type itself. learn more on the Animation Node Types page.