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drop-down list. F or more information, see
Selection Filters List (page 1–83) .
Selecting with Tr ack V i ew
TrackViewprovidessophisticatedmethodstoedit
your animation tracks. In addition, its Hierarchy
list displays al l objects in the scene by name and
hierarchy. Using Track View, you can select any
object in the scene by clicking its object icon in the
Hierarch y list.
Procedure
You can use Track View selection functionality in
both the
Curve Editor (page 2–489) and the Dope
Sheet (page 2–489)
.Thisprocedureillustrates
usageoftheCurveEditor;thesamemethodswork
intheDopeSheet.
To open Track V iew and display and select objects:
1.
On the main toolbar, click Curve Editor
(Open).
2. Click any cube icon in the list to select the
named object.
Yo u c a n m a k e t h e f o l l o w i n g k i n d s o f s e l e c t i o n s :
• Select several adjacent objects in the list. Click
the first object, hold dow n SHIFT, and click
another object elsewhere in the l ist.
• Modify the selection by pressing CTRL whi le
clicking. CTRL lets you toggle individual items
on a nd off without deselecting others in the list.
• Select an object and all its descendants. Press
andholdALT,right-clicktheobject’scubeicon
(keep the right mouse button held down), and
choose Select Children from the menu.
You can open a Track View window for the
sole purpose of selecting objects by name.
Shrink the window until only a portion of the
Hierarchy appears, and then move the window to
aconvenientareaonyourscreen.
Selecting with Schematic V iew
Schematic view is a window that displays the
objects in your scene in a hierarchical view. It
gives you an alternate way to select and choose the
objects in your scene and navigate to them.
When the Modify panel is open, double-clicking
an object modifier in Schematic view navigates the
modifier stack to that modifier for quick access
to its parameters.