The change in value of a track during the animation is determined by one or more animation controllers associated with the track. Typi-cally, an animated entity has a number of tracks. Each parameter or piece of information about an entity that can be animated is called a track. In addition, most parameters of an entity can be animated to change the appearance of the entity over time. Motion is created by animating the position and orientation (rotation) of the entities. Z, namely objects, lights, and cameras, whenever a text applies to all of them.

In this write-up, we shall be using the term entity to represent all the items that can be animated in form Z can animate objects and lights in addition to views (cameras).Button 36Īnimation controller functions 39 Stacking controllers 39 The Bezier controller 39 The Sine controller 40 The Noise controller 42 Controllers may also have tracks 43Īnimation is a sequence of images displayed one after another fast enough to give the impression of motion. Introduction 1 The Animation Process 3 Using the Keyframe tool 3 Using the Animate Along Path toolĦ Using the Animate Entities tool 7 Animating through the Animation Editor palette 8 Animating parameters 8 Numeric control of animated information 9 Fine tuning, rendering, viewing, and exporting animations 10 Rendering an animation 10 Viewing an animation 10 Exporting an animation 10 The animation preferences 11 Animation Options 12 Timing Tab 12 Preview Tab 13 Settings Tab 15Īnimation Time Line Palette 17 The Animation Editor Palette 21 The Animation Score section: context menu 23 The Add Tracks dialog 23 Graph 25 Editing control points and curves 26 Cutting, copying, and pasting control points 28 Zooming, fitting, and panning the graph 30 Aligning control points 31 Setting the current time 31 The Key section 31 Track Options. Swinging door tutorial 98 Animation Editor palette 100 Adding Keyframes 102 A door swinging in the breeze 104īouncing Ball Tutorial 106 Advanced motion: squash and stretch 111Īnimating Materials 114 Animating the color of the ball 115 Animating the color of the floor 116

Generating and saving animations 89 Generating animations 89 Exporting animations 95

Using common modeling tools on animated entities 78 Operating on an animated entity 78 Operating on keyframes 79 The range of the Transform tool 80Īnimating color 81 Animating materials 82 Animating material colors 83 Animating the frame time parameter of map based shaders 84 Animating numeric shader parameters 85 Preview icons of animated materials 86 Animated color options 87 Animated color example 88 The Animation tools 44 Keyframe tool 45 Animate along Path tool 49 The Animate Entities tool 55 The Animate Object Options dialog 55 Animation Group Tool 59 Creating and querying animation groups 61 Animation deformations 63 Animated Deform Tools 65Įxtract Animation 71 Reverse Animation 72 Replace Animation 74

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