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change at the current frame, so you won ’t see any
differencewithInteractiveUpdateonoroff.
To view the results of editing keys anywhere in
Track View in real time, use Sync Cursor Time
(page 2–527) instead. Turning on Sync Cursor
Time automatically turns on Interactive U pdate as
well, so you can see al l changes interact ively.
Keep this turned off when you are working in
bigfilesandmovinglargenumbersofkeys.
Default=Off.
In some circumstances, simply playing back
an animation or dragging the time slider with
Track View open, without edit ing keys, can cause
performance issues. If you experience this, and
InteractiveUpdateison,turnitofftoimprove
playback performance.
Sync Cursor Time
Track View > Options menu > Sync Cursor T ime
Sync Cursor Time—Snaps the time slider to the
cursor position. When on, clicking the cursor in
the Track View window moves the time slider to
that spot in time. When you release the mous e
button, the time slider jumps back to its previous
position.
Whenoff,thetimesliderdoesnotjumptothe
cursor position; you need to click the time slider
and move it by hand. Default=Off.
Turni ng on Sy nc Cursor Time a ls o tur n s on
Interactive Update (page 2–526) so you can edit
keys anywhere in Tr ack View by dragging them
and see your results right away. The time slider
jumps to the frame at which the key resides and
the viewport displays your changes in real time.
Auto Ex pand
Track View > Options menu > Auto Expand submenu
Auto Expand determines the behavior of the
controller window display based on choices made
fromasubmenu.ToturnAutoExpandoffwitha
single click, choose Manu al Navi gation from t he
Options menu: The Auto Expand settings are then
disregarded.
When you are working on a specific an imation
task, tu rn off t he unnecessary options to focus the
controller window on what you need to see.
Note: The default auto-navigation setting for
the Dope Sheet editor auto-expands only to the
node track for the currently selected object. This
reduces the number of tracks whose keys need to
be displayed and also helps enforce the top-down
workflow for w hich the D ope Sheet editor is
designed.
Interfa ce
Selected Objects Only—When this is on, the
controller window displays the tracks for
highlighted objects only. Default=On.
Tra nsf orms—Expands the Hierarchy list to
display the hig hlighted object’s Tr a nsform track.
Default=On.
XYZ Components—Expands the highlighted
object’s Transform track to display individual
XYZ components contained in each Transform
controller (such as Position and Scale).
Limits—Expands the highlighted object’ s Limits
track to display its parameters (such as Upper
Limit and Lower Smoothing). To be used in
conjunction with the Limi t Controller (page
2–335).Default=On.
Keyable—Expands the highlighted object’s
Hierarchy list to display keyable tracks. You must