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Curve Editor view menu: Tips and tricks

Curve Editor view menu: Tips and tricks - 3ds Max Tutorial

From the course: 3ds Max: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Curve Editor view menu: Tips and tricks

- [Instructor] The View menu in the Curve Editor has some very important options. For example, using items in that menu we can make curves or tracks keyable or unkeyable, or we can lock them or unlock them. I've got a very simple animation here, with some position keys applied onto a point helper object, and let's use that as a teaching example to explore the View menu in the Curve Editor. I'll stop that and rewind it. Open up the Curve Editor, I'll use the mini Curve Editor on the track bar just to save a little bit of screen real estate. Select the ball helper object and then click on Frame Horizontal and Value Extents on Curve Editor tool bar. And we see we've got position X, Y, and Z visible. The Y position curve has no key frames on it and therefore it's displayed as a dashed line. Let's go up into the View menu and the first thing we'll see here is selected key stats. Let's enable that and we see there's also corresponding icon on the Curve Editor toolbar. Now when that is off…

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