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Figure 6.25 When you expand
an item??™s channels, you can use the
scrollbar on the right of the Scene
Display quadrant to access them;
you can also resize the display area.
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Working with the Graph Editor
Editing curves is one of the primary functions of the Graph Editor. To help understand
the flow of editing curves, think of your workflow from bottom left, to top left, to top
right, to bottom right.
Editing Curves
Layout generates editable curves any time you specify a change in a setting??™s value over
time, to control object position and rotation, or any animatable property of a light, object,
camera, or surface.No matter what the property or attribute is, you work your way through
the Graph Editor the same way, and the Curve Window is where you control its curves.
Figure 6.26 shows the Graph Editor in full frame with the same teacup scene from earlier
in this chapter loaded (TeacupMotionFixed.lws). Use your own version of the scene,
or load it from Projects/Scenes/CH6/.
Figure 6.26 With a scene loaded into Layout and the train car object selected, opening the
Graph Editor reveals all motion channels already in place for the selected teacup
object in the Curve Bin.
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