You can change this easily by pressing
o (that??™s the letter o) and opening the General Options panel. Here, you can change
the Frames Per Second setting to anything you like. Later in this chapter, you learn about
all of LightWave Layout??™s preferences.
Just because the front of the timeline defaults to 0, you are not locked into this value.
You can start an animation at frame 6 or frame 40.You can also start an animation
before 0 by entering a negative value.You would do this for certain animations that
need a head start, for example. Let??™s say our object needs to already be in motion. If it
starts at frame 0, then ramps up to speed, you could start the animation at the point
of when it??™s in full motion. Similarly, you could keyframe the motion before frame 0,
and then when your animation starts at 0, the item is already in full motion. It??™s all
about control!
For example, the last frame of your animation can be changed just like the first frame.
Most likely, many of your animations will go well beyond 60 frames, or 2 seconds. To
change your current animation??™s overall time, it??™s just a matter of changing one value:
1.
Pages:
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128