The
following procedures describe how to use the animation controls.
To display the Time Slider
- You can hide or display the Time
Slider by selecting
Display > UI Elements > Time
Slider.
Hiding the Time
Slider provides more Maya view space. See also
Time Slider.
To display the Range Slider
- You can hide or display the Range Slider
by selecting
Display > UI Elements > Range
Slider.
Hiding the Range Slider
also hides the Animation Preferences button
and the Auto Key button. For more information,
see
Range Slider.
To
change the current time
- Click anywhere on the Time
Slider.
Where you click with
your mouse becomes the current time and the scene jumps to that
time in the animation.
- Do one of the following:
- Drag the mouse in the Time
Slider.
- Hold down your keyboard’s k key
as you drag horizontally in any view.
The scene updates with
your mouse action.
- -click
in the Time Slider.
- Hold down the k key and -drag
horizontally in any view.
Your scene does not update,
but the Current Time Indicator moves to show your new current time.
This is useful, for example, if you want to key an object at some
frame based on a prior position of other objects. For more information,
see
Time Slider.
NoteThe k key
operations work the same in all Maya windows that display a timeline,
for instance, the Graph Editor.
The Range Slider bar
lets you control the playback range of your animation up to the
limits of the Animation Start/End settings.
For more information, see
Range Slider.
To change
the playback range with the Range Slider
- Do one of the following:
- Drag the Range Slider bar to move it.
- Drag the boxes at the ends of the Range
Slider to scale the playback range.
- Double-click the Range Slider bar to set the
playback range to the range values in the Animation Start/End fields
of the Preferences window. To return
to the prior playback range, double-click the Range Slider bar again. See
Time Slider preferences.
To
move and scale a range of animation with the Time Slider
- -drag
along the Time Slider to select a range
of time or double-click the Time Slider to
select the entire range.
The
selected time range is red, with start and end frames shown in white numbers
at the ends of the selection block. See
Time Slider.
- Do one of the following:
- To scale the keys in the selected range
of the Time Slider, drag the black arrows
at either end of the selected range.
- To move the keys in the selected range
along the Time Slider, drag the black
double arrows at the center of the selection.