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Select Panel 867
Draw While Moving—Sets the Workbench
to update the curves as you move keys. When
off, curves display as optimized lines until you
release the mouse after moving or changing a key.
Default=on.
Show Layered Edit —When on, displays a
graphictoolforadjustingsetsofkeysalongacurve
within a range.
To set the range, click to highlight one of the
square handles, and then drag it. As you drag, the
handle follows the curve.
Handle follows c urve.
To set a layered offset, click to highlight the circular
handle, and then drag it to the desired p osition.
The circular handle follows the curve unless you
hold down the ESC key. If you drag while holding
downESC,youcanmovethehandleoffthecurve,
which scales the keys within the range.
Enable Sub Anims—When on, sets the
Wor k b e n ch to d i s p l ay t h e cu r ves of the sele c ted
part’s subanim in combination with the position
or rotation curves. Subanims are list controllers
which can be added to provide additional
animation controls to biped body parts.
Default=off.
Biped Key Manipulation
Interact ive key manipulation behaves in the
WorkbenchmuchasitdoesinTrackView.The
difference is that you can ’t move keys beyond other
keys. This has always been a restric tion of biped
animation.
See also
Working w ith the Workbench (page 2–857)
Select Panel
Select a biped body part. > Motion panel > Biped Apps >
Workbench > Select panel
The Select panel of the Animation Workbench
provides tools for selecting bipeds or biped
components. The selected biped part’s animation
tracks can b e m anipulated using curves displayed
in the Workbench, or by using the Analyze, Fix,
and Filter p anels to automatically identify er rors
and fix them.
The objects whose curves might be displayed are
set using the selection drop-down list. To change
thecurvesthataredisplayedgointotheController
w indow and select the curves you want to see
Once the selection has been made,
youcanhidetheentireTabareabyclickingtheTab
button on the Workbench toolbar. This will give
you more room to work on the curves in Curve
View.
ThefunctionalityoftheSelecttabissimilartothe
standard 3ds Max Select By Name dialog.
See also
Analyze Panel (p age 2–869)
Procedures
TodisplayabipedbodypartcurveintheWorkbench,
do one of the f ollowing:
• On the Select panel, make sure Select From
Scene is turned on, then in a v iewport, click
any biped object.
Theobject’scurveisdisplayedinthe
Workbench Curve w indow.