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Making a Selection of Multiple 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, with the question, “Do you want
to make 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 make
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 Editor displays animation as function curves, charting the
controllers' changes of value over time.
Highlighting a controller label displays keys for that item as vertices on the
function curve. You can then highlight keys and change their values.
You can add keys to function curves for tracks that are not yet animated. The
curves appear as straight lines. When you add a key to a function curve, a
controller is created for that track.
Not all controller types display function curves. For example, a TCB Rotation
controller doesn't display a function curve, 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 three axis
values into a single curve.
The Track View tools for working with function curves, found on the Curve
Editor
toolbars on page 3572 and menus, include the following:
Move Keys (Curve Editor) on page 3652
Scale Keys on page 3654
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