How to delete all keyframes
duckbomb
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OK, this is insane. I have no idea why I cannot delete every keyframe related to expression. I can't copy, paste, or delete, and I'm stuck with a bunch of keyframes for literally every single expression morph I own that do nothing.
What are these keyframes with the T inside of them? How do I just delete all of this crap?
I have watched every video I could find on this and nobody addresses this. It is not intuitive... anybody know how to just delete all of these things away?
EDIT: OK, I found a video by Jay that indicates what that T is and confirms that I'm actually looking at the real keyframe, but I still cannot delete any of them. Is it possible this has something to do with me either having used powerpose or AFE? I find that sometimes both of those cause irreperable damage to my scene... I can't believe it's this hard to just delete a keyframe. I seriously don't want to have to scratch all of this because of something stupid like that!
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Unless I'm mistaken, "T" stands for TCB interpolation. It uses easing to move from keyframe to keyframe, unlike Constant and Linear.
As for the Timeline UI, it's just terrible. I gave up on Daz animation unless they do a top-to-bottom rewrite.
Forgive the question here since I can't see your timeline and what you're doing, just want to double check, you're highlighting everything you want to delete and you have the character selected? Sometimes even if I have the keyframe selected I can't delete it the character isn't selected.
Well, I have the parts of the character I want to remove the keyframes from selected... So, for instance, the head and all of the children. I honestly don't know if I had the top-level character selected, though. I'll go back and check here shortly... you may be a life-saver!!
I'm sorry for my delayed response... not that you were waiting for me, specifically, or anything, but just because I meant to do it yesterday and came home to a mess lol.
SO, I'm sad to report that this did not help me delete them. I added a pic so you can see what I'm struggling with, but I honestly don't know what else I can try. All of the keyframes are in the PROPERTIES > POSE CONTROLS tree of the head.
I guess I'll just have to scrap this entire thing and start over.
It should NOT be this hard to just do very basic animation. Yes, there are a lot of tool and options, but if they can't do something simple like this (or even just moving them somewhere else) then the whole solution is actually worthless. I'm honestly considering just picking up Maya and sinking my time into building the set instead of on the backend where I have to fight just to have a crappy animation with slippery feet haha.
You don't have any actual keys selected there, though.
No I know, I did when I was trying to delete them... This is just the screenshot showing that I really did dig all the way down to them and where they were in the heirarchy...
Honestly, I tried deleting keyframes like this in a different save, and it worked, so perhaps I just have a corrupted file or something?
I do think it's directly related to either the Auto Face Enhancer dials or the PowerPose stuff, since that's when everything locked down on me. I think what I'll do is work slower next time and save iterations before moving onto somethign like expressions, and this way if it happens again I can ask a more specific and targeted question that perhaps somebody has the answer to instead of my current "HELP ME THIS THING IS BROKEN" post I made now.
I still think that this is overly complicated, although dumming it down at the expense of having more features isn't what I"m asking... It's just crazy to me that something can get so locked down to a point where I literally have to scrap everything just to erase something.
Wait... I'm sorry.... I think I might be an idiot. In my picture... I have one of those balls with a T highlighted... isn't that a keyframe? The part to the left isn't highlighted because it doesn't highlight in the timeline in the left panel, but the node it's under is highlighted, it's just above the screen cutoff.
Is that T Ball not a keyframe? How do I delete that? I guess that's the core issue, here lol.
The "T" ball is a keyframe. The black triangle indicates there is a keyframe inside the collapsed group. You need to expand it to see the keyframe.
Sorry, you are right - I somehow missed that. The triangles select all the visible (if the properties were open) keys below it in the hierarchy.
Are you right-clicking to delete?
I am. I do think this related directly to Powerpose or AFE, because it ONLY happens on the face expressions. I'll need to remember that if I'm animating to (first) save the face until last and (second) to not touch anything weird like that when trying animate going forward. It's not intuitive, but I don't think I can blame DAZ on this because I'm fairly certain it's something to do with those complicated helper morphs.
I started a new file, and what I'll do is test everything slowly to see what reproduces it, and if I can ask a more targeted question I'll do so. This way, I don't waste anybody's time or fill the front page up with spam.
Thanks for your response, though! I do appreciate you taking the time!
Is there any way to select all keyframes rather than clicking on each one individually?
Drag a selection around 'm? It heavily depends on what keyframes we're talking about.
Select everything in your scene—the little flag on the timeline. Then, clear animation, selected items, and everything will zero out, deleting all keyframes and animation.
You might like to check out this thread too.
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/471381/how-to-remove-animation-and-keep-only-last-state-of-scene#latest