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Smoothing Rollout 1091
Inter face
S el e ct Ob ject s to S mo o th —Opens the Select dialog,
which lets you specify which objects’ positions
and/or rotations to smooth.
Filter delegate selection—When on, the Select
dialog opened by the Select Objects To Smooth
button shows only delegates. When off, it shows all
scene objects. Default=on.
Whole A nimat ion—Smoothes all animation frames.
This is the default option.
Animation Segment—Smoothes only the frame
ranges specified in the From and To fields.
Fr o m—When Animation Segment is chosen,
specifies the first animation frame for smoothing.
To—When Animation Segment is chosen, specifies
the last animation frame for smoothing.
Posit ions—When on, selected objects’ animation
paths generated via the simulat ion are smoothed
after t he simulation has finished. Default=on.
Rotations—When on, selected objects’ rotations
generated via the simulation are smoothed after
the simulation has finished. Default=on.
Reduction group
Reduce—Reduces the number of keys by keeping
only every Nth key.
K eep ever y Nth key —N: Limits the amount of
smoothing by keeping every other ke y (N=2), or
everythirdkey(N=3),andsoon.Default=2.
Filtering group
Smoothing works by averaging the delegate’s
current position and/or orientation w ith those
several keyframes ahead and b ehind. All
keyframesusedinthecalculationcanbeaffected.
These sett ings let you control the number of
keyf rames used and the extent of smoothing
performed.
Filter—When on, smoothing is performed using
the remaining settings in this group.
Pas t Key s —The number of keys prior to the current
frame used for averaging p os ition and/or rotation.
Default=2.
Future Keys —The number of keys after the current
frame used for averaging p os ition and/or rotation.
Default=2.
Smoothness—Determines the degree to which
smoothing is p er formed. The higher the setting ,
thecloserallkeysinvolvedinthecalculationare
movedtowardtheaveragevalue.Default=4.