Learning Maya

Lesson 19 - Breaking tangent handles




Animation: How to give the impact of the ball, the animation of the board need to have a good impact as its struck by the ball.




The Starting key, where we want to break the tangent, the place the ball hits the board.



Go to Keys > Break Tangents, Notice what happens the tangent handle changes color. The 'Left side' is Blue and the 'Right side' is Red.



Select the left side of the Tangent handle and move up and down, notice we are able to independently adjust our tangent without disturbing the other side.

Here, we are going to adjust the other side of the tangential to fix the board animation.



Lets move our tangent handle upward to get the impact in the animation (Hold the middle mouse button and drag).

And this one of the benefits for using 'Breaking Tangent Handle'.



Lets unify the tangent handle in the same position, by selecting the keys (handles) go to Keys > Unify Tangents.



Now we select either side of the tangent handle notice they both is constrained, and now we can still control the flow of our F curve.



Lets say we have to keep the tangent in the original looking shape.!!

By selecting the keys Click the icon above 'Flat Tangents', and notice it goes right back to once it was.