Creates a custom playback
sequence for irregular keyframe progressions.
Posing an animation sequence
- Create an animation using any of the Alias animation
tools.
- To create a custom playback sequence,
choose Pose animation from the Animation menu.
The system
prompts:
Enter frames in pose animation:
- Type the frame times at which you want
to view the poses.
For
example, if you want to set poses for frames 5, 23, and 40, type:
5 23 40
- To start the pose animation sequence,
open the Playback Options window (Animation > Editors > Playback Options ) and under the Animation
Options heading, set Pose Animation to ON. Close
the window.
- Choose Animation > Show > Playback to view the pose animation.
- Change the pose animation by redoing Animation
> Tools > Pose Animation , or temporarily disable
the pose animation in the Playback Options window by setting Pose
Animation to OFF.
Pose Animation Options
Choose Animation
> Tools > Pose Animation ❒ to view or change Pose Animation Options.
The Pose Animation Options window
is displayed.
- Time Range
-
The method by which the pose
animation keyframe times are chosen.
Option
Window – Click to display the following sliders:
The Start Frame, End Frame,
and By Frames values you specify
are used to create an evenly spaced time sequence (For example:
Start = 1.0, End = 10.0, By = 2.0; creates Pose sequence = 1.0,
3.0, 5.0, 7.0, 9.0)
Prompt –
You are prompted to type in a sequence of frame numbers to use as
the pose animation (similar to the input in the Animation > Keyframe > Set Keyframe tool).
Key
Frames – Searches the currently enabled playback channels
and sets a pose sequence frame at every defined keyframe in those
channels. This is useful for showing the defined animation poses.
To set playback channels, use the Animation Options section of the
Playback Options window.
Pose animation workflow
- Create an animation sequence using any
of the Alias animation tools.
- Choose Pose animation ❒ to open the option box,
select Key Frames, and then click Go.
The whole animation is scanned for keyframes and a new pose sequence
is created.
- To set new keyframes on the pose animation
sequence, open the Parameter Control window (Animation > Editors > Param Control ) and open its Global animation
section. Open its Universe section and toggle the Frame parameter
of the object to ON.
NoteKeyframes in the pose sequence animation
should have STEP tangents.
- Now any Set keyframe operation
that you do also adds a keyframe to the pose sequence.
- Open the Animation Options section in
the Playback Options window and toggle Pose Animation to ON.
- Choose Animation > Show > Playback . The animation plays, displaying
only the frames for which keyframes are defined.