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The Current Item Selector will be your friend in complex scenes as it allows you to easily
organize your items, especially when you??™re using numerous objects in your scene. You??™ll
employ this feature later in the book.
Here??™s your goal: Do not be confused by the buttons. Think about what you??™re doing before
you click. Too often, animators click the mouse, press the spacebar, or press the Esc key until
something happens.Usually, something does happen, but not what they intended. Do yourself
a favor and think about your actions just as you do in Modeler. Select an item, turn on a
tool, use it, and turn off the tool. Think about the process. Then, by paying attention to the
buttons at the bottom of the interface, you??™ll know whether you are working with Layout??™s
Objects, Bones, Lights, or its Cameras. After you??™ve selected an item category, simply choose
the Current Item from the drop-down list. Then, pick a tool, such as Move, and have at it.
Of course, there??™s more to animation than point, click,
move??”so much more! What??™s great about LightWave??™s
vast toolset is that some things, such as the timeline,
stay the same no matter what you??™re doing.
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