Creating Animations

The Animation controls are the tools you'll use most often when creating animations. The palette provides tools for most of the basic animation functions:

• viewing the timeline
• moving the current time
• setting the length of the animation
• specifying the Working Area
• previewing the animation
• recording key events
• adding/deleting key frames

The Animation controls appear at the bottom of the Working window as well as in the Terrain Editor and the Materials Lab.

The Animation controls are made up of three areas:

• The Timeline, located at the top of the palette, displays a visual representation of the time in your animation. The indicator on the timeline (called the Current Time Indicator) represents the current time.
• The Animation Preview Controls, located below the Timeline, let you preview your animation in the Working window.
• The Key Frame Controls, located at the right edge of the palette, let you add and delete key frames.

To display the Animation controls in the Working window:

• By default the Animation controls are located at the bottom of the Working window.
  
  
• If the Selection palette appears at the bottom of the window, click the Time/Selection Palette toggle in the bottom-right corner of the Bryce window or press S. The button switches between the Selection palette and the Animation controls.
  
  

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