When you open the animation editor, the fcurve editor is displayed by default, The fcurve editor is where you control the animation of the currently selected element by editing its function curves.
For information about the animation editor in general, including the animation explorer on the left, see The Animation Editor.
For information about the profile curve editor that it used in several property editors, see The Profile Curve Editor.
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Command bar contains menu commands and icons to edit fcurves in many different ways - see Commands and Tools for Editing Fcurves. |
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Values for the parameter are shown on the graph's Y (vertical) axis. |
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Timeline displays the same timeline as is used for the fcurve editor. Time is shown on the graph's X (horizontal) axis. Click and drag the red playback cursor in it to "scrub" through the animation. |
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Frames that are outside of the scene's timeline range. |
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Selected fcurves are white - see Selecting Function Curves. |
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The keys on the fcurves represent the keyframes of the selected parameter's animation. Selected keys are red. See Selecting (Tagging) Keys. |
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The slope handles (tangents) at each key indicate the rate at which an fcurve's value changes at that key. See Editing a Function Curve's Slope. |
There are two different modes in which you can work in the fcurve editor:
To switch between the two modes, do any of the following:
When the Classic Mode option is off, the Suite mode is active.
The Fcurve Editor Preferences let you set up options for different tasks you do in the fcurve editor, such as setting keys, setting the slopes of the fcurves, or displaying audio waveforms and markers.
To determine the default fcurve options when creating keys, see the options on the Curves tab in Animation Preferences.
There are also a preferences for the animation editor in general - see Animation Editor Preferences.
To open the fcurve editor preferences:
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