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you choose Keys menu > Use Soft Select, then
choose Soft Selection Settings (page 2–525),the
Soft Selection Settings toolbar is displayed. This
toolbar is accessible only from the Keys menu,
not from the right-click menu. If you want this
menu to stay visible, save a Track View layout (page
2–602).
Track B ar
You can dock the Track View windows below the
time slider and track bar by choosing Dock >
Bottom from the toolbar right-click menu. You
can dock multiple Track View windows using this
technique.
You can also display a Track View window
belowtheviewportsbyclickingtheOpen
Mini-Curve Editor button at the upper left corner
ofthetrackbar.Usingthismethod,thetimeslider
and track bar are replaced with the Track View
window. As with Dope Sheet and Curve Editor
modes, you use the toolbar r i ght-click menu to
display or hide all Track View UI elements.
Pr ocedur es
To save a Track V iew layout:
1.
Customize the Track View layout as you want.
2. When you want to save it, right-click the Track
Viewmenubarortheblankareaattherightof
theTrackViewtoolbar,andchooseSaveLayout
As.
3. Enter a name you will remember.
To reload a saved Track V iew layout:
1.
Right-clicktheTrackViewmenubarorthe
blank area at the ri ght of the Track View toolbar
and click Load L ayout.
2. Choose the layout you want to display in Track
View .
To save a Track V iew window:
You can save a particular Track View window,
displaying to a particular set of tracks, by using the
Name: Track View toolbar .
• EnterthenameforthewindowintheName
field. When you close the window, you can
reload it by choosing Graph Editors > Saved
Track Views. Then choose the nam ed window
from the list.
Tip: Named Track View windows are saved with
afile.Named layouts areindependentofthefile.
To r estore the defa ult Tra ck View user interf ace:
If you have customized your Track View user
interface and want to return to the original
installed version, do the following:
1. In the \Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 9\ui\
folder, locate the file trackview.bak.
2. Copythefileandrenamethecopy
tr ackview.ini.
3. InWindowsExplorerorMyComputer,
right-click and choose Properties. Make sure
the Attributes is not set to Read-only.
Tip: You c an also right-click the Track View
title bar and choose Load Layout > Default to
return to the default layout. This works only if
you have not sa ved over the default.
To add a new menu bar name to a custom Track V iew
layout:
1.
From the Customize menu, choose Customize
User Interface.
2. On the Menus panel, click New to create a new
menu.EnterthenameofthemenuintheNew
Menu field and click OK.
3. Using Notepad, open ui/trackview.ini,and
navigate to the lay out section. To affect the
CurveEditortoolbar,choosethesectionnamed
[default], or to affect the Dope Sheet toolbar,
choose the section called [Dope Sheet layout].