# emperor animation

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/emperor-animation/16658
**Category:** Technical Support
**Tags:** emperor
**Created:** [September 22, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/emperor-animation/16658 "2020-09-22T06:17:02Z")
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### Author: ![yoshiki](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/yoshiki/32/16_2.png) [@yoshiki](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/yoshiki)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/emperor-animation/16658/4 "2020-10-06T00:52:36Z")

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The easiest way to hide a trajectory is to set **all** the gradient values for that trajectory to 0. That way there's nothing to animate and the trajectory is ignored altogether.

We are working on adding a way to do this from the UI but currently the only way to do this is by modifying the metadata values.

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