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578 Chapter 12: Animation
• In the modifier stack, these branches display as
a horizontal line, called a derived object line.
For descriptions of object data flow and instance
objects, see Understanding Object Data Flow (page
1–494).
You can ma ke an object unique by select ing a
Modified Object or an Object container and
clicking Make Unique on the Track View toolbar.
Your result depends on w hether or not the data
flow branches at the selected container.
• If the data flow does not branch anywhere
below the selected container, nothing happens.
• If the data flow does branch at or below the
selected container , the data flow above the
branch is split from the current data flow as a
unique object. The data flow f rom the selected
container to the master object is copied and
attached to the new unique object.
Making a S election of M ultiple Instances
Unique
If you select multiple objects that are instances of
each other, or share instanced modifiers, you can
choose how to make them unique. After you click
Make Unique, the Make Unique dialog appears,
w ith the question, “D o you want to ma ke the
selected items unique with respect to each other?”
• Click Yes to make each object in the selection
completely unique.
• Click No to leave the objects in the selection as
instances, but to m a ke them unique from other
objects not in the selection.
Curve Editor
Main toolbar > Curve Editor (Open) > Highlight animated
tracks. > Curves are displayed in Key Window.
Graph Editors > Track View - Curve Editor > Highlight
animated tracks. > Curves appear in Key window.
Right-click any animated object. > Curve Editor > Curves
appear in Key window.
The Curve E ditor displays animation as function
curves, charting the controllers’ changes of value
over time.
Highlighting a controller l abel displays keys for
that item as vertices on the function curve. You
canthenhighlightkeysandchangetheirvalues.
Youcanaddkeystofunctioncurvesfortracksthat
arenotyetanimated.Thecurvesappearasstraight
lines.Whenyouaddakeytoafunctioncurve,a
controller is created for that track.
Not al l controller t ypes display function curves.
For example, a TCB Rotation controller doesn’t
display a func tion cur ve, while an Euler XYZ
rotation controller shows individual curves for X,
Y and Z. Some controllers display individual tracks
for each axis, while other controllers combine the
threeaxisvaluesintoasinglecurve.
The Track View tools for working with function
curves, found on the Curve Editor toolbars (page
2–535) and menus, include the following:
Move Keys (Curve Editor) (page 2–579)
Scale Keys (page 2–580)
Slide Keys (page 2–558)
Scale Values (page 2–581)
Add Keys (Curve Editor) (page 2–581)
Draw Curves (page 2–582)
Reduce Keys (page 2–572)