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open the menu. For best results, first click in the
field, and then right-click the field and choose
Select All.
Copy Animation—Copies the animation controller,
including all animation keys, to a buffer, which
you can then assi gn elsewhere by pa sting.
Past e A nima tion - Copy —Assigns a copy of
animation controller in the buffer to the
right-clicked field.
Paste Anima tion - Insta nce—Assigns an instance
(page 3–1051)
of the copied animation controller
to the right-clicked field.
Past e A nima ti on - W ir e—Opens a Parameter Wiring
dialog (page 2–395)
with the copied parameter
and the paste destination parameter selected. This
is equivalent to creating a
wire parameter (page
2–393)
in the viewport between two parameters.
Edit Wire—Opens the Parameter Wiring dialog
(page 2–395)
expandedandpositionedtoshowthe
wire controller assigned to the selected parameter.
Note: Edit Wire is available only if a two-way
connection
is currently applied on the right-clicked
parameter.
Show in Track View—Opens a Tr ack View - Curve
Editor window, titled “Selected,” expanded and
positioned to show the selected parameter. This
is very useful for fast access to a particular curve
or track.
Show in Parameter Wire dialog—Opens a Parameter
Wiring dialog expanded and positioned to show
the selected parameter.
V iewing and Copying Transform
Keys
The viewports display white brackets around
objectsthathavetransformkeysatthecurrent
time. These key brackets only appear in viewp orts
using the wireframe shading method.
UsetheTrackViewtoviewallkeytypes.Youcan
also see all keys for the current selection in the
track bar (page 3–750) .
For example, suppose you animate a sphere by
moving it at frame 20, and scale and rotate it at
frame 50. When you drag the time slider, white
brackets appear around the sphere at frames 50,
20, and 0, and keys appear at the same frames in
the track bar.
IfyouthenapplyamodifiersuchasBend,and
animateitsAnglesettingatframe40,youwon’tsee
a white bracket around the sphere at frame 40, but
track bar displays a key for the Bend animation.
Controlling K ey B rack et Display
Animation p anel of the Preference Settings dialog
You can control the display of key brackets
using options in the Preference Settings dialog >
Animation panel (page 3–868) .
Cr e at ing Tran s f o rm Ke ys with the Tim e
Slider
Yo u c a n u s e t h e time slider (page 3–748) to create
transform keys by copy ing transform values from
onetimetoanother.Tospecifythetypeofkeyto
create and the source and destination time for the