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Scale Values 557
Procedure
To scale a selection of k eys horizontally:
1.
Right-click an animated object and choose
Curve Editor.
2. In the Hierarchy list, highlight a t rack.
3. Scrub the time slider (page 3–748) to the frame
to use as the scale center.
4. On the Track View toolbar, click Scale
Keys.
5. Highlight one or more keys.
6. In the Track View Key window, drag any of the
highlighted keys horizontally to scale, or press
SHIFT and drag to add scaled copies of selected
keys.
7. The scaling effect depends on the direction you
drag with respect to the time slider location:
•Dragawayfromthetimesliderlocationto
expand keys’ scaling.
• Drag toward the time slider location to
reduce keys’ scaling.
• Drag past the time slider location to reverse
the keys’ order and expand the keys away
from the current time.
Scale Values
Main Track View > Curve Editor > Track View toolbar >
Scale Values
Track View > Curve Editor > Keys menu> Scale Values
ScaleValuesisusedtoproportionallyincreaseor
decrease the vert ical distance b etween selected
keysonthefunctioncurvesinCurveEditor.
It uses the
Scale Origin Line (page 2–488) as a
movable reference point for the scale operation.
Practically speaking, scaling values always creates
spatial adjustments, rather than temporal. To scale
in time, use
Scale Time (page 2–546) instead.
Note: ScaleValuesisnotavailableinDopeSheet
mode.
Procedure
To scale key values:
1.
Select an object in the viewp ort, then right-click
and choose Curve Editor.
2. Highlight one or more tracks, if necessary, and
then highlight the keys you want to scale.
3. On the Curve Editor toolbar, click Scale
Va lu e s .
TheorangeScaleValuesOriginlineappearsat
the 0 location on the vertical scale.
4. Drag the Scale Values Origin line to where you
want to scale values from or to.
5. Drag any highlighted key vertically to scale a ll
of them.
Tip: If you use Lock Select ion (page 2–533) after
highlighting the keys, you can drag anyw here
in the Key w indow to create the scale operation.
Add K ey s (Cur ve E ditor)
Track View > Curve Editor > Track Vi ew tool bar > Add Keys
Track View > Curve Editor > Keys menu > Add K eys
When Add Keys is active, you can click anywhere
onafunctioncurvetoaddakeyatthatlocation
on the curve. Add Keys stays active until you click
another mo de.
If the curve is part of a multicurve controller,
ver tices are added to each curve at the time
location where you clicked. For example, adding
a key to the red X curve of a TCB Position track