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Linear Controller 325
Limit Controller right-click menu
To access the Limit Controller right-click menu,
highlightaLimitControllertrackintheTrack
View hierarch y, and then right-click the track and
move the cursor to the Controllers quadrant >
Limit C ontroller menu item.
Note: After using Copy Limit Only on a Limit
controller track, you can apply a new Limit
controller with the same limits to any t rack by
invoking Paste Limit Only.
Toggle Limit—Tur ns the Limit controll er on an d
off. This is the same as the
Enable check box on
the Float Limit Controller dialog.
Set Upper Limit—Sets a value/key in the Upper
Limittrackatthecurrentframeequaltothevalue
at the current frame of the limited track. If there
isonlyonekey,thevalueofthelimitisconstant
over time.
Set Lower Limit—Sets a va lue/key in the L ower
Limittrackatthecurrentframeequaltothevalue
at the current frame of the limited track. If there
isonlyonekey,thevalueofthelimitisconstant
over time.
Remove L imi t—Deletes the Limit controller,
restoring the original controller without limits.
Co py Limit Only—Copies only the Limit values and
ignores the limited controller of the high lighted
track.
Paste Limit Only—Applies only the copied Limit
values, or adds a Limit controller with the copied
values if one doesn’t exist, while retaining the
values of the original limited track.
As with pasting copied controller tracks, you can
pastetheLimitvaluesasacopyoraninstanceof
the copied Limit controller, with the option to
replace al l instances of the paste target.
Linear Controller
Main toolbar > Curve Editor (Open) > Select a track in the
Track View hierarchy. > Track View menu bar > Controller
menu > Assign > Linear
Graph Editors > Track View – Curve Editor > Select a
track in the Track View hierarchy. > Track V iew toolbar >
Controller menu > Assign > Linear
Animation menu > Position, R otation or Scale controllers
>Linear
TheLinearcontrollerinterpolatesbetween
animation keys by evenly dividing the change from
onekeyvaluetothenextbytheamountoftime
between the keys.
Linear controllers do not display a properties
dialog. The only information stored in a linear key
are the time and animation values.
Use Linear controllers w henever you want a very
regular, even transition from one key to the next.
Forexample,useaLinearcontrollerfor: