A much easier way,
though, is to use Copy Time Slice in the Graph Editor.
Exercise 6.6 Using the Copy Time Slice Feature
1. Select the curve you want to edit, such as the Position.Z channel, using the previous
exercise files. You can double-click this channel in the Scene Bin to quickly
add it to the Curve Bin. Drag the timeline bar to the desired frame of motion,
Figure 6.38 The Move
Keys selection enables you
to set a specific numeric
value to move a key.
such as frame 15 (in the main Curve Window), as shown in Figure 6.39. To drag
the timeline slider, grab it from the bottom.
Figure 6.39 Use the timeline slider in the Graph Editor to move through your item??™s motion.
2. From the Keys drop-down list, select Copy Time Slice
(Figure 6.40).
3. Drag the timeline slider to frame 40 where there is
no keyframe.
4. From the Keys drop-down list, select Paste Time Slice,
and a new keyframe will be created with the values
from the previous position.
Note
Copy Time Slice is an extremely handy function of the Graph
Editor. If you set two keyframes in Layout for an item??”at
frames 0 and 90, for example??”LightWave will interpret the
motion for the frames in between those two keys.
Pages:
371
372
373
374
375
376
377
378
379
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
395