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Change color of actor in animation

Question asked by Vipul Kapoor on Mar 16, 2014
Latest reply on Mar 17, 2014 by Derek Parks

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Hi folks. I'm back with another query

I was creating an animation of my model and its almost complete. Now the designers wants to change the color of a part (actor in composer). I changed the color at few places but the problem is a lot of keys are storing the color property of actors. If I change the color at one key, the next key will bring back the original colr. I've got a ton of keys and updating the color at every key is impossible.

How do I change the color accross whole animation so every key is updated with the new color?

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Derek Parks Mar 17, 2014 9:00 AM
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Vipul,

If I had to guess if there is a way it isn't going to be an easy fix since it sounds like you have a lot of "set keys" and they hold all properties of the part. I try to stick to "location keys" as much as possible to avoid this issue some.

I am also interested in this topic. The only way I have found is to change the keys and yes it is a pain. Hopefully someone will be able to tell us a better way.

Derek
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Earl Hasz Mar 17, 2014 9:09 AM
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There is a fairly straightforward solution to this.
I'd start with deleting the unused keys from the Animation tab. This will remove extraneous keys that are not needed in the animation.
On the Timeline turn on filter by selection and filter by property. Then select the color property. At this point you should not see any keys in the timeline.
Now select the actor in question and its color keys will light up in the timeline. You now have the option of deleting all of the keys or simply go to each key and set the color as necessary.

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- Derek Parks @ Earl Hasz on Mar 17, 2014 9:19 AM
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  Earl,
  
  Unless I am missing something I am not sure that is a solution to the problem. It seems you way still requires you to change the color at every key that contains the color properties.
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  - Earl Hasz @ Derek Parks on Mar 17, 2014 9:22 AM
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    If the color is not changing throughout the timeline, then this will allow you to find all of the keys and delete them. Then set the color at t=0sec.
    If the color is changing throughout, then yes, you will need to change the value at each of the keys. At least the filters will show you which keys to visit.
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    - Derek Parks @ Earl Hasz on Mar 17, 2014 9:27 AM
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      Got it thanks. Sure this will save me some time in the future as for me personally my colors don't change to often during an animation. Although it never fails to have a complete animation and someone requesting a part to be different throughout the whole animation so deleting keys would work in most of my situations.
      
      Thanks again
      
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