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Ghosting animation

Ghosting animation

- And finally, let's just take a look at some ways to visualize your animation in the view port. Now here I have my blimp and it's basically just coming into dock. So if I select my blimp and go to my animation menu set, you'll see we have visualized. And there's a couple of features here I want to show you. Now the first one is create editable motion trail. Now we looked at how to create a motion path. Now a motion trail is very similar to that. So if I do create editable motion trail what it does is it actually creates an object in the scene and I can select these and actually move them around to change the path of my object. So it's basically a way to create a motion path without having to do an actual motion path. Now I'm going to go ahead and undo my way out of that. (keyboard clicking) And now another really handy feature is called ghosting. So if I go into visualize you'll see we have a ghosting editor here. And so…

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