Animate Tab

Create Modify Actor Script Control Traffic


Figure 1. Animate ribbon interface

Create



Figure 2. Create group
Settings Description


Keyframes 		Allows you to create, script, and manipulate animation key frames.


Create Actor 		Allows you to create an actor from one or more elements in a design.


Create Camera 		Allows you to create an animation camera.


Create Target 		Allows you to create a target for an animation camera.

Modify Actor



Figure 3. Modify Actor
Settings Description


Define Actor Path 		Allows you to define the path along which an actor moves.


Modify Actor 		Allows you to modify the name of an actor, and enable or disable the axes about which an actor can be moved, rotated or scaled.


Modify Camera 		Allows you to modify an animation camera.


Copy Actor 		Allows you to copy one actor to another actor.


Manipulate Actor 		Allows you to manipulate an actor relative to the axes defined when the actor was created.


Attach Detach Actor 		Allows you to attach one actor to a second actor, so that it will move or rotate with the second actor when it (the second actor) is manipulated.


Camera View 		Allows you to display, in a selected view, the scene as viewed from an animation camera.


Drop Actor 		Allows you to convert (drop) an actor back into its components.

Script



Figure 4. Script group
Settings Description


Animation Producer 		Allows you to define animation settings and create animations.


Script Actor 		Allows you to create a script to parametrically position an actor during an animation sequence.


Script Camera 		Allows you to script an animation camera in a sequence.


Script Target 		Allows you to specify the time at which to activate/deactivate targets.


Script Attach Detach Actor 		Allows you to script the attachment or detachment of one actor to another during an animation sequence.


Global Lighting 		Allows you to animate Global Lighting settings.


Source Lighting 		Allows you to move source lighting in an animation by attaching them to actors that move. Alternatively, they can be made into actors themselves, and scripted to move and/or rotate.


Script Elements Attribute 		Allows you to animate element attributes - visibility, color, transparency - during an animation sequence.


Materials 		Allows you to animate material characteristics.


Animation Settings 		Allows you to define animation settings for previewing or recording.

Control



Figure 5. Control group
Settings Description


Animation Preview Tool 		Allows you to preview an existing animation and to add key frames.


Play 		Allows you to start playing the animation sequence in the preview view.


Start 		Allows you to set the sequence back to the starting time or frame.


Record 		Allows you to open the record script dialog, which is used to record an animation sequence.


Pause 		Allows you to stop the animation at the current time or frame number.


End 		Allows you to set the sequence to the end time or frame.


Movie Player 		Allows you to play back an animated sequence.
Animation Settings 		Allows you to define animation settings for previewing and recording. Also used to display the current time of the animation frame in the view while previewing the animation or in a movie produced by the animator.

Traffic



Figure 6. Traffic group
Settings Description


Create Lane 		Allows you to place a set of vehicles along the single lane or multi-lane roadway and add a script entry.


Link Ramps 		Allows you to link two ramps together.


Link Lanes 		Allows you to link two lanes together.


Add Vehicle 		Allows you to add vehicle in a lane.


Edit Lane 		Allows you to edit a lane data.


Delete Lane 		Allows you to delete a lane. Deleting the lane also deletes all the vehicles associated with that lane.


Attach Camera 		Allows you to place a camera on a vehicle for animating from the vantage point of the vehicle.


Show Lane Links 		Allows you to view the links of the selected lane to other lanes.


Delete Lane Link 		Allows you to delete individual links from the lanes.