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46 Chapter 2: Viewing and Navigating 3D Space
Procedure
To scale the tra nsfor m gizmo, do one of the following:
•Press– (hyphen) to shrin k the Transform
gizmo.
•Press
= (equal sign) to enlarge the Transform
gizmo.
Show Ghosting
Views menu > Show Ghosting
Ghosting is a method of displaying wir eframe
"ghostcopies"ofananimatedobjectatanumber
of frames before or after the current frame. Use it
to analyze and adjust your animation. Ghos ts that
overlap indicate slower mot ion; g hosts that are
spread further apart show faster motion.
When this command is active, ghosting is
displayed for selected objects in the scene. Only
currently selected objects display the ghosting.
Ghosting helps to visualize animation.
To change Ghosting parameters choose Customize
> Preferences. On the V iewport panel of the
Preferences dialog you can determine the number
of ghosting frames, whether to ghost before or
afterthecurrentframe,orboth,andyoucanalso
show frame numbers with the ghosts.
Procedure
To show wireframe ghost copies of an animated
obj ect:
• Choose Views menu > Show Ghosting.
Show K ey Times
Select an object with animation. > Views menu > Show
Key Times
Key Times shows the frame numbers along a
displayed animation trajectory (page 2–301).
Key times correspond to the settings in Time
Configuration (page 3–725) for Frames or SMPTE
(page 3–1013).Bydefault,keytimesareshown
as frame numbers.
Procedure
To display traj ector y time values in the v iewport:
1.
Select an object with animation.
2. On the Display p anel > Display
Properties rollout, turn on Tr ajectory.
Tip: If the rollout controls are una vailable,
right-click the object in the active viewport,
choose Properties, and in the Display Properties
group, click By La yer to change to By Object.
This will make the Trajectory option become
available.
3. Choose Views menu > Show Key Times.
Thetimevaluesaredisplayedaswhitenumbers
along the trajectory. They remain displayed in
red when the animated object is deselected.