How to show Gizmo when playback in Blender

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Hello there, I want to capture Gizmo in blender. But when I playback, the Gizmo will hide, who know to show Gizmo when playback?

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Hi Gin Gin GGin ,

    Have a look at this post and see if you can extract some useful information for you: https://cgcookie.com/community/19762-any-means-to-render-armatures-bones-other-than-viewport-render 

    The Viewport Render Image/Animation don't display the Gizmo's, but the UI Animation Render Addon Renders Everything.


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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Oh wait, I think I misunderstood you.

    You probably mean that the Gizmo disappears when you hit Play. I didn't know it did that it did that, but it certainly makes sense. The Gizmo's are 'helpers' for Modeling and making Transformations on Objects in your Scene and that is not something you will do, while Playing. Showing the Gizmo's would just (marginally, but) unnecessarily slow down the Framerate, I guess.

    Maybe it would be nice to have it as an Option though 🤔

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  • Gin Gin(Gin) replied

    Thank you Martin!
    I understand what you mean. Bcs I want to make bts video like this 
    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEzo5LHttpB/?igsh=cTczNGI1OTRubThn

    So I wonder, can we get that in blender


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  • Martin Bergwerf replied
    Solution

    Oh, I see!

    The UI Animation Render won't help you there either, because that would show the Gizmo, but stuck in place.

    The only way I can think of, is to 'Model' the Gizmo and Parent it to the Animated Object.


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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    ...or maybe just a 2D Image of the Gizmo, if there are no 3D Rotations in the Animation.

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  • Omar Domenech replied
    Solution

    You can model the gizmo's yourself, if it's for projects such as those where it's lots of motion graphics with such elements. I've done it before and the CG Cookie guys put it up on the Blender Market. Linking you up:

    https://blendermarket.com/products/blender-within-blender--blender-ui-model

    It's how I made this video:

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DGNoMMUMn-1/

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  • Gin Gin(Gin) replied

    I got your idea, I had same idea at first, but I'm seeing if there's a faster way that I don't know about. Thank you both very much!! 

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