CGTalk - Moving All the Keys

Chong

08-04-2003, 10:02 PM

hi, its me again :hmm:
Ive been putting my character's key poses in, and when i want to change the timing i have to select every bone seperatly and then move their keys to a new frame. I was wondering if there was a quicker way to select and edit all the keys in a bone hierarchy instead of having to pick them individually. thanks.

MasonDoran

08-04-2003, 10:10 PM

select heiarchy then go to

dope sheet...

Chong

08-04-2003, 10:13 PM

hehe,sry, my bad.
i meant so i could edit them in the timeline. im used to it in other softwares and i was wondering if it was possible.

muckywetnoodle

08-04-2003, 10:18 PM

press shift and left-mouse drag in the timeline or just double left-click timeline then drag the red area. You can either move or scale with the arrows at the bottom of the seletion.

MasonDoran

08-05-2003, 08:51 AM

and use MMB to drag selected keys to change the timing....

if u dont like how Maya shows the keys of only the selected objects AND u dont want to select the heiarchy....you can change this in your preferances....

JoeSchmo

08-05-2003, 01:04 PM

the timeline isnt really for editing keys. you can do some stuff there, like copy paste move. but the the little ticks just show that there is a key there, it dosent tell you whether it is left ik translate y or spine rotate x.
all the real key editing is done in the graph editor.
read the help files on that, and also making character sets.
you could make a character set with just the attributes that are
relevent to control your character/ select it and adjust every key in the entire animation.
also check out the trax editor its cool too.
joeS

Chong

08-05-2003, 04:28 PM

awesome, thats exactly what i was lookin for. thnx for the replies :)

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