Thursday, June 5, 2008

Lesson 22 - Proportionally move keys frames along the Timeline using set breakdown



Select the F-curve and select the first half and move and select the last portion and move, but how do we move proportionally? we want it more accurate, how do we do that?

The tool is called 'Set Breakdown'.

Lets focus on Translate Z here and we can set a breakdown on our translate Z, so that we can speedup the animation proportionally alltogether.

so we don't have to move each and every key manually.



Go to Animate > Set Breakdown (Option box).



Set Breakdown Options.



To Set breakdown on All Keyable attributes From Channel box

Select the translate Z on the Channel box (2) and move your slider on the timeline to Frame 19th Key (4) (where you want to convert the key into Breakdown).



Click 'Set Breakdown' in the Option box.

Notice the key color and the bar on the timeline both turns 'Green', this tells us we have a Breakdown key set on this frame for this key.



If we select the keys after the breakdown and drag it, even thou we haven't selected the breakdown we can still able to move it proportionally.

NOTE: The breakdown key only moves from its assiociate key, means we can only move it from whatever key we have applied, or the attribute.



If we want to Change the Breakdown in to the original Key, then go to the time line (the breakdown key is on frame 19) Select it by holding the Shift on your keyboard and click and drag to get the red box.

Right click on that and set it to Keys > Convert to Key.

or



Still selecting the Breakdown on our timeline Go to Keys > Convert to Key in the Graph Editor menu.

and Notice the Breakdown key turns into a Regular Key (You can see the change in color).

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