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502 Chapter 12: Animation
Pr ocedur es
To change t he frames in which a cont rol ler takes
effect:
When you apply a con troller or constraint to
an object’s motion, the frame range over which
controller takes effect is determined by the cur rent
active time segment (page 3–904).Ifyouthen
changetheactivetimesegmentortheanimation
length, the duration of the controller’s influence
doesn’t change. Sometimes applying a controller
(such as Path Constraint) automatically sets keys
thatyoucanusetochangethisrange.Butothers,
such as Noise controllers, don’t set keys. In such
cases, follow this procedure:
1. Select the object, and then right-click it and
choose Curve Editor from the men u.
2. Expand the object hierarchy to find the track or
tracks to adjust.
3. FromtheModesmenu,chooseDopeSheet.
4. On the Dope Sheet, click the Edit Ranges
button.
5. Adjust the range durat ion by dragging its
endpoints, or its position in the animation by
drag ging between endpoints.
For more information, see Dope Sheet (page
2–507).
To select k eys in Track View (either mode), do a ny of
the f ollowing:
• Click the key to select an indiv idual key.
• Drag a selection rectangle around keys to select
multiple keys.
•Holddownthe
Ct rl key and click to create
discontinuous multiple key selections.
Note: If you are in Dope Sheet – Edit Ranges mode,
you can use S elect Time to select multiple keys.
To delete k eys in Track V iew (either mode):
1.
Select keys on the curve, or on the dope sheet.
2. Press the Delete key on the keyboard to delete
the selected keys.
To force Track V iew to always display on a second
moni tor:
If you are ru nning a dual-monitor setup, you can
force Track View to display on the right-hand
monitor by editing a script.
1. Right-click the Curve Editor (Open) icon in
the main toolbar, and then choose Edit Macro
Script.
The MAXScript script that opens the Track
View – Function Curve Editor appears.
2. Locate the line that reads:
if (trackviews. open "Track View - Curve Editor"
layoutN ame:"Function Curve Layout") == true
then
3. Replacethatlinewiththisone:
max_window = getMaxWindowSize() --get
Desktop size if (trackviews.open "Track View
- Curve Editor" layoutName:"Function Curve
Layout" pos:[max_window.x/2,0] hei ght:max_
window.y width:(max_window.x/2) ) == true
then
4. Save the script and restart 3ds Max.
This should open the Track View in a new session
over the right half of the desktop. Assuming that
a dual-monitor setup reports twice the width, this
will force the Track View on the second monitor.
On a single monitor, it opens it over the righ t
half of the monitor. Of course, you could enter
your own numbers like pos:[1024,0] height:768
w idth:1024 in case you are running two monitors
at 1024x768.