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Animate group
Local Center Dur i ng An im at e—Locks the center
method to
local (page 3–1057)
.Turnoffifyou
want to animate around a non-local center such as
world or selection.
MIDI Time Slider Control gro up
Enables use of a MIDI device to control the time
slider.ChooseOntousetheMIDIdevicespecified
in the
MIDI Time Slider Control Setup dialog
(page 3–890)
, which is displayed with t he Setup
button.
Sound Plug-In group
Assign—Displays a dialog l isting all sound plug-ins
installed in the system. S elect a new plug-in to
replace the current one.
Controller Defaults group
Sets the default values for animation controllers
capable of supporting default settings. For
example, set the default values for tension,
continuity and bias in the TCB float controller .
Override Parametric Controller R ange B y
Default—
When on, new parametric con trollers
are active throughout the timeline, independent
of their animation r ange. Otherwise, they respect
it and are only ac t ive within their range. Refer
to
Ignore Animation Range (page 2–526)
and
Respect Animation Range (page 2–527)
for more
details. Default=on.
Spring Quick Edit—Toggle to increase the
accuracy of all spring controllers in the scene. To
be used with t he Rollback input field. Default=off.
Note: This option is saved in the
3dsmax.ini
file as
SpringsQuickEdit
.
Note: Turning on this option may impact scene
perfor mance.
Rollback —Sets the number the frames a spring
controller goes back before becoming invalid.
Default=6.
Note: This option is saved in the
3dsmax.ini
file
as
SpringsRollingStart
.
Note: Setting a high number may impact scene
performance.
Set Defaults—Displays a dialog listing all
controllers that can have their default values
changed. The Set button becomes available when
you choose a controller class from the list.
Restore To Factory Settings—Prompts y ou to v erify
if you want to reset a ll controllers to the program’s
default sett i ngs. If you choose Yes, the defaults are
reset for all controllers cur rently in the system.
File Pr efer ences
Customize m enu > Preferences > Preference Settings
dialog > Files tab
On the Files panel of the Preference Sett ings
dialog, you set options relating to file handling.
You also select the program used for archiving.
This is where you control the options for log file
maintenance. You can enable Auto Backup in this
dialog to save your work automatically at defined
intervals.