How to show Gizmo when playback in Blender

[Gin Gin]

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

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Gin Gin @Gin ,

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.

[Martin Bergwerf]

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 🤔

[Gin Gin]

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

[Martin Bergwerf]

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.

[Martin Bergwerf]

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

[Omar Domenech]

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/

[Gin Gin]

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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