2009

Time Editing

Dope Sheet offers you a variety of tools for working directly with time. You

can select a period of time, which includes all the keys within that period,

and then perform different operations on that time segment. You can copy

and paste time to loop animations, or reverse time so the animation plays

backward. You can insert time to add a space to an animation, or delete time

to shorten a motion.

NOTE For Dope Sheet procedures, see the individual tools and menu choices

within the links below.

Dope Sheet Speed Improvements

In 3ds Max, only tracks displayed in the current field of view are computed,

optimizing the responsiveness of the Dope Sheet editor.

Dope Sheet now temporarily retains the key caches so tracks that have already

been computed as a result of the parent being computed needn't be

recomputed. The cache is used instead.

The default auto-navigation settings for the Dope Sheet editor now only

auto-expand 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 the Dope Sheet editor is designed for.