To help you visualize movement within your project as you work in individual
frames, LightWave can display a motion path that shows the route an object will
take between keyframes. To see your camera??™s motion path, press o to open the
LightWave Preferences panel and check Show Motion Paths on its OpenGL tab.
16. Drag the timeline to about frame 30, deactivate the Auto Key button at the bottom
of the interface, and then move the camera to a new position.
17. Once the camera is in a new position, click the rewind button and then the play
button to see the animation. Notice a change? Of course not.With the Auto Key
feature off, the position change for the camera was not recorded. You??™ll also see
that its motion path didn??™t change.
18. Slide the timeline back to frame 30. Turn Auto Key back on. Now move the
camera again to a new position, and this time rotate it a little as well. Feel free
to change the camera
position on the
Y-axis too.
19. You??™ll see that the
motion path has now
changed (Figure 6.6).
Click the rewind and
play buttons to watch
the motion along the
new path. Now the
camera moves between
three keyframes: 0, 30,
and 60.
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