Trax context-sensitive menu

 
 
 

The Trax context-sensitive menu appears when you -click a summary, track, animation clip, or geometry cache clip. The options that are displayed in this menu depends on what your mouse pointer is over when the menu is invoked. Many of the options in the Trax context-sensitive menu can also be found in the Trax menu bar. See Trax menu bar.

Summaries

For animation clips only.

Paste Clip

Places the clip copy present in your system’s clipboard at the current time in the track, group, or character you are clicking on.

Import Clip to Character

Lets you import a clip from your disk to the character or group you are clicking on. Opens the Import file browser window.

Tracks

For animation clips only.

Paste Clip

See Paste.

Import Clip to Character
Insert Track Above

Creates a single, empty track above the track you are clicking on.

Insert Track Below

Creates a single, empty track below the track you are clicking on.

Remove Track

Deletes the track—including all the clips it contains—you are clicking.

Clips

Enable Clip

Lets you turn the curves on or off for the animation or geometry cache clip you are clicking on. When on, the selected clip is enabled. When off, the selected clip is disabled. See Enabled/disabled clips or Enable.

Make Clip Relative

Displays in the Trax contextual menu only if the animation clip channels are currently set to use a mix of absolute and relative offsets. Select this option to set all channels to use relative offset behavior. (See also Absolute and Relative channel offsets and Offset clip channels.)

Make Clip Absolute

Displays in the Trax contextual menu only if the animation clip channels are currently set to use a mix of absolute and relative offsets. Select this option to set all channels to use absolute offset behavior.

Relative Clip

Appears in the Trax contextual menu only when all channels for the current animation clip are either relative or absolute. When on, all channels are set to relative. When off, all clip channels are set to absolute offset. Use this option to quickly set all channels to use the same offset.

Edit Per-Channel Offsets

Opens the Attribute Editor for the animation clip. Expand the Channel Offsets heading to define the offset behavior for each channel. (See also Offset clip channels.)

Activate Keys

For animation clips only.

Lets you activate or deactivate the animation clip you are clicking on. When on, the selected animation clip is active. When off, the selected animation clip is inactive. See Active/inactive clips.

Group

For animation clips only.

See Group.

Ungroup

For animation clips only.

See Ungroup.

Cut Clip

For animation clips only.

See Cut.

Copy Clip

For animation clips only.

See Copy.

Paste Clip

For animation clips only.

See Paste.

Split Clip
Duplicate Clip

For animation clips only.

See Duplicate.

Merge

For animation clips only.

Only available when you are clicking on a cycled animation clip or when you have two animation clips selected. See Merge.

Trim Before
Trim After
Select Geometry

For geometry cache clips only.

Selects in the scene view the object for the cache clip you are clicking on.

Replace Cache

For geometry cache clips only.

See Geometry Cache > Replace Cache and Replace geometry caches.

Replace Cache Frame

For geometry cache clips only. See Geometry Cache > Replace Cache Frame and Replace geometry caches.

Attribute Editor

Opens the Attribute Editor and displays the nodes and attributes of the clip you are clicking on.

Graph Weight

Opens the Graph Editor and displays the weight curve of the clip you are clicking on. Select this option only when your clip possesses a weight curve.

Select Character Set Members

For animation clips only.

Selects in the scene view all the objects that are members of the character you are clicking on.

Key Into Clip

For animation clips only.

See Key Into Clip, Key into a clip.

Create Time Warp

For animation clips only.

See Time Warp.

Create Weight Curve

Creates a weight curve for the clip you are clicking on. You can manipulate and key this curve to create various animation and deformation effects. See Weighting and Blend and set the weighting of geometry caches.

Select Source Clip

For animation clips only.

Selects the source clip of the animation clip you are clicking on. The source clip’s attributes appear in the Channel Box. See Edit source clips.