Editing Motion Paths

Changing the shape of the motion path changes the trajectory of the object. The path acts like a Bezier curve. You can change its shape by dragging its control points.

You don't have to be in Auto-Record mode to edit the path. The changes you make to the path's shape are applied directly to the path in real time.

Changing the shape of a path does not affect when key events occur. A key event that occurs at 00:00:01.00 will still occur at the same time regardless of where it is.

The events on the path in this image occur at 00:00:00.00, 00:00:00.04, 00:00:00.08, 00:00:00.12, 00:00:01.00, and 00:00:01.04. When you change the shape of the path, the direction in which the object travels changes, but all the events still occur at the same time they did in the original path.

Since Bryce treats the motion path as a Bezier curve, you can edit it just as you would any curve in any 2D illustration application. You can also display the curve's tangents which indicate the angle of the curve.

When you display a path's tangents you can see the angles of its curve points.

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