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Smoothing Rollout 1239
Inter face
S el e ct Ob j e ct s to S m o ot h —Opens the Select dialog ,
which lets you specify which objects’ posit ions
and/or rotations to smooth.
Filter delegate selection—When on, the Select
dialog opened by the Selec t Objects To Smooth
button shows only delegates. When off, it shows a ll
scene objects. Default=on.
Whole Ani mation—Smoothes all animation frames.
This is the default option.
Animation S egment—Smoothes only the f rame
ranges specified in the From and To fields.
Fr o m—When Animation Segment is chosen,
specifies the first animation frame for smoothing.
To—When Animation Segment is chosen, specifies
the last animation f r ame for smoothing.
Posit ions—When on, sele cted objects’ an imat ion
paths generated via t he simulation are smoothed
after the simulation has finished. Default=on.
Rotations—When on, selected objects’ rotations
generated via the simulation are smoothed after
the simulation has finished. Default=on.
Reduction g roup
Reduce—Reduces the number of keys by keeping
only every Nth key.
K eep ev er y Nth key —N: Limits the amount of
smoothing by keeping every other key (N=2), or
everythirdkey(N=3),andsoon.Default=2.
Filtering group
Smoothing works by averaging the delegate’s
current position and/or orientation w ith those
several keyframes ahead and behind. All
keyframesusedinthecalculationcanbeaffected.
These settings let you control the number of
keyframes used and the extent of smoothing
performed.
Filter—When on, smoothing is performed using
the remaining settings in this group.
Pas t Key s —The number of keys prior to the current
frame used for averaging position and/or rotation.
Default=2.
Future Keys—The number of keys after the current
frame used for averaging position and/or rotation.
Default=2.
Smoothness—Determines the degree to which
smoothing is p er formed. The higher the setting ,
thecloserallkeysinvolvedinthecalculationare
movedtowardtheaveragevalue.Default=4.