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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:26:49 -0500
From: Pat Connelly <pconnelly@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Subject: [IML] quest: stage settings
Hi everyone,
I need a little help. Is there a mechanism for copying objects/settings
from one staging file to another. I am animating a helicopter and I have
two staging files at the moment. One is the two blades with a mixture of
settings and objects to experiment with until I get the objects and
movements optimized. Simple small testing file. Now I would like to import
them into my real animation file with a minimum of effort. ie cut and
paste. It is nice to cut and paste within a staging file. It would be even
more convenient to do the same between staging files. Can it be done? If
not, how does anyone else do the same? When I am tweaking one part of my
animation, I really don't need anything else in the scene and I can't afford
the rendering time. It took a minimum of 120 frames to get a feel if my
blades looked right or not.
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 19:37:30 -0400
From: Jaeson Koszarsky <jaesonk@csrlink.net>
This would be a useful item. I'd like to see an action editor that is
similar to the timeline used in Adobe After FX.
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:41:37 +0400
From: Charles Blaquiere <blaq@INTERLOG.COM>
Pat Connelly wrote:
>
> Is there a mechanism for copying objects/settings
> from one staging file to another.
No. This is one of those features listed in last year's IML wish list.
> When I am tweaking one part of my animation, I really don't need
> anything else in the scene and I can't afford the rendering time.
That's where layers come in handy; as long as you're doing quickrenders
for stills, or View/Perspective/Animate (the old Quick Anims) for
animation tests, you can turn off unwanted parts of the scene through
layers. When you use the Render menu commands, Imagine will always use
every layer, regardless whether you turned it off.
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