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On/Off Controller 355
On/O f f Cont r oller
Maintoolbar>CurveEditor(Open)>Selectatrackinthe
Track View hierarchy. > Track View menu bar > Controller
menu>Assign>On/Off
Graph Editors > Track View – Curve Editor > Select a track
in the Track View hierarchy. > Track V iew menu bar >
Controller menu > Assign > On/Off
The O n/Off controller provides binary on and off
control. It is similar to the Boolean controller (page
2–316). For example, you can apply an On/Off
controller to the Visibility track of an object.
You can view the curve for this controller in the
Function Curve display, but it’s not editable. In
addition, there’s no Properties dialog for this
controller.
Note: When you load a scene from version 1.x of
the sof tware t hat contains a Visibility controller,
the controller is automatically converted to an
On/Off controller.
See also
Boolean Controller (page 2–316)
Procedure
Ex ample: To us e the On/Of f controller to control a n
object’s visibility:
1.
Create a cylinder, and open Track View.
2. In Track Vie w, select the Cylinder track and
click Tracks > Visibility Track > Add.
A Visibility and Transform track are now
added.
3. Select the track named Visibility .
4. From the Track View toolbar > Controller
menu > Assign and selec t On/Off in the Assign
Cont roller dialog. Click OK.
If you change modes to Dope Sheet, note that
the entire track region is filled by a blue bar.
5. ClicktheAddKeysbuttoninTrackView—
Dope Sheet and add a key at frame 20.
The blue bar stops at frame 20.
6. Add another key at fr ame 60.
Thetrackisnowblueagainfollowingframe60.
7. Add some additional keys in the Visibility
Track. Each added key reverses the on/off blue
pattern follow ing the added key.
Tip: You can select two or more keys and copy them
to different positions. This allows you to create
even intervals for the On/Off effect.
Interfa ce
You assign the On/Off Controller in Track View.
The On/Off track displays a solid blue color in
frames that are On, and no blue in frames that
are Off. When you add a key to an On section of
the track, the section following that key is turned
off. When you add a key to an Off section, the
following section is turned on and colored blue.