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twilight
12-08-2002, 09:35 PM
1)

Is it just me or the "OK" button is missing on the render settings dialog box?
I feel strange closing a dialog with the "x" on the top right... it looks like i'm going to cancel whatever i did. weird...

2)

On the new F-Curve manager, is there an easy way to set an "Ease In" or an "Ease Out"? I mean, it's there, i can see it, but the results are far from what i expected...
If i have a cube moving from point A to point B (let's say only in the X axis) i get a diagonal line, meaning the movement is linear. So far so good. Now what i want to do is to start that movement really slow and then speed it up. I guess that's the "Ease Out" situation. The thing is: i was expecting a small acceleration and then a regular speed (like a small curve and then a diagonal line) but that's not what i'm getting. I'm getting a straight line and almost at point B a sudden acceleration. Maybe i could add a keyframe between the two points, but this is only with a single axis movement... imagine 3 axis for movement and 3 for rotation!!
Any easy way out?? (Ease Out!! LOL)

Thanks in advance!
Sorry for the long post!
DeathCarrot
12-09-2002, 02:52 PM
1) yes there is an absence of this OK button in question, everything is applied on change...

2) im not really an animator... yet.. so i dont know..
brammelo
12-09-2002, 06:10 PM
Originally posted by twilight
On the new F-Curve manager, is there an easy way to set an "Ease In" or an "Ease Out"? I mean, it's there, i can see it, but the results are far from what i expected...


I could always say you should RTM (or RTFM, if I was in a bad mood). But that wouldn't be nice, would it?

So: the parameter that has been animated needs to be in the F-curve editor, but apparently you figured this one out. To ease in and out there are a couple of methods. You could, for instance, try the following:
- select the parameter(s) you want to modify in the F-curve manager
- goto Edit > Select all
- goto Curves > Custom tangents > soft interpolation
- goto Curves > Custom tangents > flat

This should work.

Cheers,
BaRa
LucentDreams
12-09-2002, 06:12 PM
Render settings is now non modal which means you can dock it in the interface if needed, and you no longerneed to hit okay, you simply change something and its done.

As for easing, the ease in and ease out aren't very good, so simply set it to soft and edit the curves manually thats the way to do her
twilight
12-09-2002, 06:59 PM
Thanks to everyone!

brammelo, your method is just great!

Kaiskai, I knew i could make it manually but when you have a lot of parameters it's a real pain, and if you're not careful the curves might go below the zero point, and your object goes back before it starts moving...

I'll shut up now and RTFM...

:)

THANKS!
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