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This tutorial will walk you through how to create what is commonly referred to as a "keyframe trick"

Keyframe tricks are a requirement to use many [[RED Event List|events]] in multiplayer. Keyframe tricks are not required when creating single player levels.

Steps:
#Create a [[RED_Event_List#Delay|Delay]] event to use for your [[RED_Groups#Moving_Groups|moving group]]. Note that this doesn't have to be a Delay event - it could be pretty much anything else in the editor that can be put into a moving group, just normal convention is to use a delay event because it's invisible and doesn't do anything without being linked to something.
#Create a [[RED_Groups|group]] containing the Delay event, and hit the keyframe button to turn that group into a moving group.
#Hit the "keyframe" button a second time for the same moving group, and move this second keyframe away from the first one.
#Go to the properties for each [[RED_Objects#Keyframe|keyframe]], and set the "Movement Type" to "Ping Pong Once", and "Departing Travel Time" and "Returning Travel Time" both to 0.00 seconds.
#Select whatever event you're activating with the keyframe trick, and note the object UID. To locate the object UID, look at the [[RED_User_Guide#Status_Window.2FConsole|RED console]] in the bottom left hand corner with the event selected.
#Open the properties window of the silver keyframe in your trick, and insert your event's UID into the "Trigger Event with UID" field.

You can download an example keyframe trick {{FFLink|3971|here}}. This group contains the keyframe trick, a [[RED_Objects#Trigger Door|trigger door]] object to activate it, and an example event (shown in green) as a placeholder for any event you need to activate using the trick.

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