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How to scale down animation in max.
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Gotmilk 228 posts12 Feb 2006Hi there. I made a run sequence where my character runs. But the whole running cycle takes 50 frames. Bu i need to put this cuvle inside 10 frames. I dont want to start mess around by moving the animation keys. It took so much time to get the timing right. I know that in graph view you can just scale your animation down. So the same movment sequence would happen in 10 frames instead of 50. If you can tell me how to make this scale i would be grateful
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12 Feb 2006You said it. just open curve editor, filter so only animated keys are showing, select them all, and scale them down horizontally to 10 frames. very simple (assuming the animation is not complex)
PS. I would never advise you to do that..especially with only 10 frames, you might loe some key details and the animation would be somewhat jerky! its better if you re-animate IMO. -
12 Feb 2006im not sure about this (please correct me if im wrong ) but you could render it and then import it into AE and remapp the time.
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24 Feb 2006I think you can also scale the timing of keyframes without going to the curve editor. Try right-clicking on the timeline underneath your viewports and choose Configure. Then pick "Show Selection Range", and an additional space will open up below your timeline. If you select several keys of your animation now, a bar with two endpoints will span from your first to your last selected keyframe. Grab one of the endpoints and scale away!
I think Max defaults to snapping to the nearest frame, so you won't have to worry about keys ending up on subframes unless you want to. I was so glad to find this a few weeks ago
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