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Modifying keys in the graph editor

Modifying keys in the graph editor - Maya Tutorial

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Modifying keys in the graph editor

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- [Instructor] If you want more precise control over your animation, you can use the graph editor. So let's take a look at this. So I'm going to go into Windows, Animation Editors, Graph Editor, and that brings up this window. In fact, I'm going to go ahead and highlight my camera window, tap my space bar here so that way I can see what's animating as I have the graph editor open. So I'm going to go ahead and just select the body of the spaceship. And when I do you notice how the graph editor kind of lights up, and I get all of these different curves. Now these are what are called animation curves, and they basically represent what is happening with all of the attributes on this object. So you can see I've got translate, rotate, and scale, and if I want, I can just highlight one of those. So that's how it translates in X, Y, or Z, zed, as well as how it rotates. Now I can just look at this. And if I wanted to, I could scrub my timeline and see how the ticks on these animation curves…

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