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Tracking
Track Options panel
Use the Track Display panel
The Track
Display control panel lets you:
- display
the names of each track point in any of the views
- display
the names of each 3D locator in any of the views
- see
a trace line for the movement of a tracked point, showing both the
forward and backward movement from any given frame
To turn on or off any of the track point display
features, open the Display control panel under
the Track task. For each display
feature, you can select how it will display: Always, Selected (when
a track point is selected), or Never.
To control the length of trace lines, use the Length
Forward and Length Backward fields.
NoteIf track points are given a specific name,
as opposed to the machine default name of trackedpoint#, then that
track point can not be selected in the track points listing and
Maya shows the following error message:
Error: More than one object matches the name:pebble
User named track points can be selected in the
outliner.
Display colors
You can also specify the colors for tracked
points and other display features. Double-click the color box to
open the Maya Color Chooser. You can specify both
an Inactive color (item not selected) and an Active color
(item selected). The display features are:
- Track Point
-
Colors used for track points and their
labels at all times except in an error state.
- Error
-
Colors used when a track point is in an error state,
such as a poor tracking.
- Trace Line
-
Colors used for trace lines, one for the
backward line and one for the forward line.
- 3D Locator
-
Colors used for the 3D locators created
by Live.
- Constraint
-
Colors used for the objects and lines representing
constraints.
