Viz Artist User Guide
Version 3.14 | Published October 30, 2020 ©
Basic Animation Functions
This section contains information on the following procedures:
To Play All Animations in a Director from the Start of the Time-line
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Select the required Director.
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Either
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Click the Start Animation button in the Time-line Editor.
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When the Stage is active, pressing ENTER starts any animations on the selected director(s) from the first frame. Pressing SPACE pauses or resumes play-out.
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Click the Start Animation of Selected Layers button from the Director Control Panel.
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To Play Multiple or All Animations in a Scene
When working with a scene that contains more than one director, the current director is always selected by default in the scene editor preview window. To preview all animations in a multi-director scene, all directors can be started simultaneously:
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Open the Director Control Panel.
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Click the All button, or hold SHIFT + Click to select the range of directors. Holding CTRL and clicking allows for selecting individual directors instead of a range.
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To start the animation(s), either
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Click the Start button in the Time-line Editor.
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Click the Play layer button in the Director Control Panel.
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Click the Start animation of selected layers button in the Director Control Panel. This also starts the selected animations in the other layers, if they are available.
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When the Stage is active, pressing ENTER starts any animations on the selected director(s) from the first frame. Pressing SPACE pauses or resumes play-out.
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To Play an Animation in Reverse
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In the Time-line Editor, click the (Reverse Play) button.
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Either:
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Click the Start button in the Time-line Editor.
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Click the Play layer button in the Director Control Panel.
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Click the Start animation of selected layers button in the Director Control Panel. This also starts the selected animations in the other layers, if they are available.
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Press SHIFT + ENTER when the Stage is active
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To Stop a Director
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Select one or more Directors.
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Either:
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In the Time-line Editor, right-click the Stop button.
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Click the Stop button from the Director Editor.
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Press SPACE while the Stage is active.
To Stop an Animation
In the Time-line Editor, click the Stop button. It is also possible to add one or more stop points to a Director, so that each time the time-line reaches a certain frame, the animations stop automatically.
To Stop All Animations
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Enable the Director Control Panel
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Select all directors and all layers.
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Click the Stop animation of selected layers button. This stops all animations in all layers.
To Continue an Animation
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Select the required Director.
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Either:
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Click the Continue Animation button in the Time-line Editor
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While in the Stage, press SPACE.
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Click the Continue Animation button in the Director Editor.
To Jump to Start of an Animation
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Select the required Director.
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Click the Go to Start button in the Time-line Editor, or press CTRL + HOME.
To Jump to the End of an Animation
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Select the required Director.
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Click the Go to End button in the Time-line Editor, or press CTRL + END.
To Delay Animations in a Director with Offsets
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Enable the Director Editor and select the required Director.
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In the Director editor, set the Offset value (in fields). It is also possible to move the Director, including all its animations, horizontally along the time-line in the Time-line Editor. This does not add the offset value.
Scale Animations
Scaling a Director is the easiest way to change the total running time of the animations in the Director. Scaling is done proportionally and includes all Sub-Directors.
To Scale Animations in a Director
Drag the start or the end point of a Director in the Dopesheet Editor. It is not possible to drag the start point beyond the offset value.
To Scale a Region within a Director
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Mark a region within a director.
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Drag the green start or end point of the marked region.