Hello, I have created a polygon cube that is animated to fall over.  Towards the end of the animation I used a boolean operation to modify the shape of the cube, knocking to cylinder shapes out of the cube.  Doing this achieved what I was looking for, however, my existing keyframes disapeared from the time line.  I would like to be able to adjust the timing of the cube falling over.  Oddly after performing the Boolean, the object still moves and rotates as I had animted it, but there are no keyframes on the timeline.  Can you help me?

its because the boolean seperates the mesh shape from its original transform node (i dont know why, i can only speculate without looking it up) which as the history i preserved on the object, the original transform node still needs to be in scene, which it is (with the animation), so check your outliner and you’ll see an empty transform node called the cube’s original name, before you applied the boolean, and that will still have the keyframes on it.

hope that helps.

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ldunham1 23 October 2011 01:45 AM

i dont know why

double transformation, probably.

gotcha, cheers :)

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