# Repeat an Animation with Offset in Blender

Many game animation asset motions comes with looped animations. Typically they provide separate file s for the start of animation, end of animation, and a repeatable loop body of the animation.

In this note, we will see how to extend and repeat this animation indefinitely in blender.

### Example File

<figure><img src="/files/QtDFSYBtl2nLiCAv4MRb" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Here, we will use this d01-prone-f-loop.fbx as a demonstration.

Import this animation FBX in blender

<figure><img src="/files/XfpKGysqU0g2U6ar4lWx" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Select the armature, go to the "Animation" panel, and set the window view as "Graph Editor".

<figure><img src="/files/MOkMADbNzgQJMYwmVCEu" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

In this view, it plots all the keyframe values on the timeline

<figure><img src="/files/rOSqY8xuXli8aYEnnnJN" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

To repeat the motion, select all the keypoints by pressing `A`, and then press `Shift` + `E`. In the opened menu, select "Make Cyclic (F-Modifier)".&#x20;

<figure><img src="/files/Omgf7Z2QAdZ6Ff3bgjDn" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

For more information on the F-Modifier, please see [here](https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/graph_editor/fcurves/modifiers.html#cycles).

Now the values are repeating, but we also want to offset the global root positions to let the character keep climb forward.

<figure><img src="/files/LeJVDqzjd5HmwwHG0n9i" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

To do this, select a datapoint from the keyframe entry that we want to modify:

<figure><img src="/files/k9K22Z0mhejzTwQEBkNP" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Go to the right N-menu of this window, select "Modifiers" panel, and set both the Before Mode and After Mode to be "Repeat with Offset".

<figure><img src="/files/0NpWHAvq3bPKcf3G5lR0" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Now we can see that the green Y-axis value keeps increasing / decreasing indefinintely.

<figure><img src="/files/0rrePyiYa0utaEmz23ZT" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Final note: this modifier is compatible with our Python API that reads the pose bone values, hence can be used in the PoseLib-V2 reference motion generation pipeline.

## References

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