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Creating keyframes in Set Key mode - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: 3ds Max 2018 Essential Training
Creating keyframes in Set Key mode
- [Voiceover] The other way to create keyframe animation in 3DS Max is using set key mode and that's a more manual operation. If you're coming over from another application such as Maya, this will be more familiar to you. Auto key generates keyframes on the current frame basically no matter what you do. Set key only creates keyframes when you explicitly click a button to create a keyframe. Let's enable that, so down here, we've got some controls. First of all, we've got the key filters. This lets you choose what you're going to keyframe. Click on that, and we can choose to keyframe all properties of the selected object or just certain transforms or certain parameters or so on. In this case, I only want to keyframe the position of my camera, I can turn the rest of the stuff off. And then when I click to create a keyframe, only the position transforms will be recorded as keys. Alright, close the set key filters. We've also got this pull-down list that says selected. This allows us to…
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Setting up Time Configuration6m 18s
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Creating keyframes in Auto Key mode4m 22s
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Creating keyframes in Set Key mode3m 52s
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Editing animation in the Timeline4m 50s
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Editing animation in the Dope Sheet4m 34s
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Interpolating keys in the function Curve Editor6m 41s
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Moving position keys with Motion Paths6m 40s
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