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Part V: Animation and Rendering Basics

FIGURE 21.10
Enabling ghosting lets you know where an object is and where it’s going.

Animation Preferences

The Animation panel of the Preference Settings dialog box, shown in Figure 21.11, contains several prefer-
ence options dealing with animations. When a specific frame is selected, all objects with keys for that frame
are surrounded with white brackets. The Animation panel offers options that specify which objects get these
brackets. Options include All Objects, Selected Objects, and None. You also can limit the brackets to only
those objects with certain transform keys.

Tip
The Key Bracket Display option is helpful when you need to locate specific keys. When the selected object for the
given frame has a key, the object is surrounded with brackets. n
The Local Center During Animate option causes all objects to be animated about their local centers.
Turning this option off enables animations about other centers (such as screen and world).
The MIDI Time Slider Controls include an On option and a Setup button. The Setup button opens the
MIDI Time Slider Control Setup dialog box shown in Figure 21.12. After this control is set up, you can
control an animation using a MIDI device.

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