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Quick Reference
The Animator window is a floating window that enables you to add animations to your model.
Ribbon: Animation tab ➤ Create panel ➤ Animator
Menu: Classic user interface: Tools ➤ Animator
Toolbar: Classic user interface: Workspace ➤ Animator
The Animator window contains the following components: the toolbar, the tree view, the timeline view, and
the manual entry bar.
Work with Animation Scenes
Scenes act as containers for your object animations.
Each scene can contain the following components:
■ One or more animation sets
■ A single camera animation
■ A single section plane set animation
The scenes and the scene components can be grouped into folders. This has no effect on playback, except that
the contents of a folder can be easily switched on or off to save time.
There are two types of folders:
■ Scene folders - to hold scenes and other scene folders.
■ Folders - to hold scene components and other folders.
To add an animation scene
1 If the Animator window is not already open, click Animation tab ➤ Create panel ➤ Animator .
2 Right-click in the Animator tree view, and click Add Scene on the shortcut menu.
3 Click the default scene name, and type in a new name.
TIP Use names that can help you to identify your scenes in future.
Pointing device: Click
, and click Add Scene on the shortcut menu.
To delete an animation scene
1 If the Animator window is not already open, click Animation tab ➤ Create panel ➤ Animator
.
2 Select the scene you want to delete, and click
.
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