Fix Your Graph Editor In Blender Now!

Change the way you use Blender's graph editor now! You'll thank me later :-)

[rja]

In Blender 3.6 Only Show Selected Curve Keyframes moved to Edit > Preferences > Animation.

It is no longer in the View menu.

[whiteroosterproductions]

OMG! THANK YOU SO MUCH! This has been driving me nuts for years.

[derekw]

In just two minutes, you've made it so the graph editor is no longer scary to me! Thank you!

[balazsbelanyi]

I came from Maya a few days ago, and this one has been driving me crazy. This little tutorial is extremely helpful if you are used to Maya. Thank you!

[greenbox]

it's also great to know that you can add "only selected curve keyframes" to favorites; so now I can just hit Q to quick toggle that option in the graph editor.

[Nyubug]

Huh my blender 3.3.0 alpha already had the opacity at 0.25 as default.

[Sebastianandthedeepbluemusic]

one other thing I found when banging my head against the graph editor is if you double click on the name in the list it will select all the keyframes in that name. useful if you want to select all and change the start point or something

[andrewscott]

These two settings didn't changed my life - they allowed the life of my PC/keyboard/mouse to continue.
Thank you.

Blender is doing a good job at explaining through tooltips what does what, but sometimes some things can still be confusing or overlooked.
In some areas, one thing I like to do is to go through menus and PICK what I need.
I don't press Control+T in the Shader Editor. I go to Add-Texture-Image Texture, then Add-Vector-Mapping and finally Add-Input-Texture Coordinate,
because that's a good way to get to know what's where.
In other areas, I use shortcuts, because I like shortcuts, A LOT. I like shortcut so much that I pack some of them under combinations of mouse/keyboard buttons/keys in AutoHotKey.
I heard I like shortcuts so I put some shortcuts in my shortcuts.
For example, in Edit Mode I don't go to Mesh-Mirror-X Global, I press instead XButton1+X and AutoHotKey sends the key combinations that mirror the selected geometry along x axis and then flips its faces.
Not to mention the orbit/pan functions mapped completely to the mouse and without which I don't think I'd want to use Blender.

One of the biggest sins of YouTube Blender tutors is the: press Tab, then Numpad1, then Shift+A . . . kind of explanation.
Beginners don't need to learn shortcuts, they need to learn interface and commands.


Thank you for your work and help.🤗

[sonario]

I JUST found this out yesterday and am planning on turning this into an addon

[BlenderBob]

Thank you so much!!!! Awesome! Subscribed!

[Sebastianandthedeepbluemusic]

sick! I yelled oh f!@# when you dimmed those lines down aha

[robbie]

So many features in Blender are hidden away, Thanks for revealing this one

[oddy]

Why does 'Shift H' stops working when the 'only selected curve keyframes' option is turned on?
Is there any way around it to Isolate curves with hotkey while being in "only selected curve keyframes" mode?
Please help, looking for it since ages :(

[zeeyannosse]

Hello from blender 4.1 > please > where is Only Selected Curve Keyframes now ?... can t see it inside the : VIEW : panel. now there is " ONLY " Only Selected Keyframes Handles .... thanks ;)

[poochyboi]

how do you fix x, y, z location to move in world space in stead of local space? makes polishing animations impossible in the graph editor

[Aishasaudi]

Why only action in top track working.. I need to use all actions in same track to work?? Any help!!!!

[nathantedla]

You can't use the Local transform orientation in the Graph editor. How I can I fix that?

[Consisto]

In 4.2 seems I cant box select key frames only from selected channel. When I click in empty space to drag a box select it deselects any selected channel. Anyone know a work around?

[kidseducation]

bake sound to f curve not showing in my pc how to show sir please help