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Out-of-Range Types 1081
of orthographic views: top and bottom; front and
back; lef t and r ight.
Orthographic views are a s pecial case of
axonometric views (page 3–1007) .Youcanset
viewports to the various orthographic views using
the
viewport right-click menu (page 3–774) or
keyboard shortcuts (page 3–911) .
Out-of -R a nge Ty pes
When you specify values and keys for a cont roller,
you are defining animation over a ra nge of time.
YouchooseOut-of-RangeTypestodeterminehow
the animation continues outside a specified range.
Out-of-Range choices include holding a constant
value, and various ways of repeating the animated
range.
The easiest way to work with Out-of-Range Types
isintheTrackViewFunctionCurvemode.
You use the Parameter Out-of-Range dialog to
project the pattern of the key dots in the selected
track. These patterns are applied to the animation
outsidetherangeofallkeysinthetrack.Thisis
why they’re called out-of-range types.
By default, tracks use a constant out-of-range type.
This means that the track values before and after
the range of keys remain constant. For example, in
a 100-frame animation with keys up to frame 20,
theX,Y,andZvaluesafterframe20remainthe
same for the rest of the animation. T he objects in
this example do not move from frame 20 to frame
100.
Apply i ng the Cycle out-of-range type will make
the key pattern in frames 0–20 repeat c yclically for
the remaining 80 frames.
Outputs: Sour ce / Test
In Particle Flow, you create a particle diagram
(page 3–1083)
by connecting events (page 3–1029)
using wires (page 3–1127) . Each wire links an
output with an
event input (page 3–1051) .There
are t wo different typ es of outputs: ;
• The connector sticking down from the bottom
of a
global event (page 3–1043) is a source
output.
• The connector sticking out from the side of a
test (page 3–1115) is a test output.
Source output (above); test output (below)