Now use the Move tool by selecting it from
the Modify tab (or by pressing t), move the object up a bit, and give it different
rotation. Remember that you can press y
to jump to the rotation tool. Figure 6.14
shows the change.
Note
10. Click the rewind button at the bottom right of the interface, just above the
Preview menu. Then, click the Play button, which is the right-facing arrow, also at
the bottom right of the interface.
When you play the animation, you??™ll see your cup fall and quickly bounce. It??™s sort
of OK, but it drifts through the saucer.What??™s up with that? Didn??™t you keyframe
it at frame 10 to land on the saucer? You did, but because LightWave??™s motions are
actually spline curves, there??™s a fluidity between keyframes. This interpolation is
your friend in most animations, but often you need to control it.We??™ll set up a
few more keyframes first, to finish the animation, then you??™ll see how to control
the ???drifting??? you see before and after set keyframes.
Because the Move and Rotate commands
are used so often, Layout provides
many ways to get to them. In
addition to clicking their tool buttons
on the Modify tab and pressing t for
Move and y for rotate, you can press
the spacebar to cycle through the
Move, Rotate, Size, and Stretch tools.
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