- Parameters: Here you can assign a controller to your motion (such as position, rotation, or scale), create keys for those controllers, or edit your key frame information to set motion to ease into a key, ease out of a key, or various other settings.
- Trajectories: This lets you view the path an object travels over time, and use that visual to control the path.
3D Studio Max Lesson 1.3: Main Tools Overview
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com
The options here are more tied to the animation of your shapes/objects than the forms of the shapes themselves. (Another is Track View, which is something we’ll discuss later, but the two act as alternatives to each other.)
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- Main Tools and the "Create" Panel
- "Create" Panel Continued
- "Modify" Panel
- "Hierarchy" Panel
- "Motion" Panel
- "Display" Panel
- "Utilities" Panel
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