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Lock Selection
Track View > Curve Editor or Dope Sheet> Highlight keys
> Track V iew toolbar > Lock Selection
Keyboard > SPACEBAR
Lock Selection toggles selection locking on and off.
When a selection is locked you can’t inadvertently
deselect or select anything else. When a selection
is locked you don’t have to click it to move the
keys, you can click anywhere in the window to
more or scale the keys.
Note: To u s e t h e SPACEBAR keyboard shortcut,
the
Keyboard Shor tcut Override Toggle (page
3–912)
must be on.
Procedure
To use Lock S electi on in Tra ck Vi ew:
1.
In either Dope Sheet or Curve Editor Key
window , highlight one or more keys.
2. On the Track View toolbar, turn on Lock
Selection, and then click and drag inside the
Track View Key w indow.
All the selected keys move regardless of where
inside the Track View Key window you click
and drag .
Align to Cursor
In either D ope Sheet or Curve Editor, select keys to align
to current frame. > Keys menu > Align to Cursor
Use Align to Cursor to move selected keys to the
current time. Select the keys to alig n using Move,
Slide, or Scale.
Align to Cursor is useful for taking a group of
scattered keys and moving them to the same time
location.
Align to Cursor is available in Dope Sheet and
Curve Editor modes.
Align Keys to Cursor ignores the state of Snap
Frames, and always uses the exact t ime set by the
time slider.
Procedure
To move a ll selected key s to t he cur rent f r ame:
1.
Open either Curve Editor or Dope Sheet - Edit
Keys mode.
2. Dragthetimeslidertothetimewhereyouwant
the keys aligned.
3. Highlight one or more keys
usingMoveKeys,SlideKeys,orScaleKeys.
4. From the Keys menu choose Align To Cursor .
The left most selected key in each tr ack is moved
to the current time. M ultiple selected keys on
thesametrackmaintaintheirrelativedistance
from the left m ost key.
Add Visibility Track
Right-click an object in the viewport. > Curve Editor/Dope
Sheet > Tracks menu > Visibility Track > Add
Graph Editors menu > Track View - D ope Sheet/Track
View - Curve Editor > Click the object whose visibility you
want to ke y. > Tracks menu > Visibility Track > Add
Add Visibility Track con trols when yo u can see
an object. V isibility tracks can only be added to
objects. You can create a visibility track by either
animating the Visibility parameter in the Object
Properties dialog or by selecting an object in the
Track View Hierarchy and clicking Tracks menu >
Visibility Tr acks > Add. In b oth cases a visibility
track, using a Bezier float controller, is created in
Track View. The visibility track displays as a child
of the object in the Track View Hierarchy.