Filtering Track View Display

Command entry: Track View

Keys Toolbar

Filters button

Command entry: Track View

Controllers Toolbar

Filters button

Command entry: Track View

Display menu

Filters

Filters lets you determine which categories of items appear in Track View. When you click the Filters button, Track View opens the Filters dialog.

You can also right-click the Filters button for quick selection of items.

TipYou can set up a default filter configuration. Open a single Track View, set the filters the way you want them to come up, and close the Track View. Save the (empty) scene as maxstart.max. This scene file is automatically loaded when you start 3ds Max.

Procedures

To position a selected object at the top of the Track View Hierarchy:

In a viewport, right-click a selected object.
From the right-click menu, choose Curve Editor or Dope Sheet.
Track View opens with the selected object at the top of the Track View Hierarchy.

To display the animated transform tracks for an object in Track View:

Select an object, then open a Track View window.
Right-click (Filters).
From the right-click menu, choose Animated Tracks Only.
Right-click (Filters) again.
From the right-click menu, choose Selected Objects Only.

Interface

See Filters Dialog.

Filters Dialog (Track View)
You use the Filters dialog to choose what to display in Track View. For example, you can limit the view to animated tracks only, or tracks for selected objects. This dialog also controls function curve display and transform display for Position, Rotation, Scale, and X, Y, and Z axes individually.

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