Viewing an Animation
The controls for viewing animations are organized much like those of a VCR.






plays the
animation.
stops the
playing of the animation.
rewinds the animation to its beginning.
fast forwards the
animation to its end.
and
step through the
animation one key-frame at a time.
Playing and Recording an Animation
takes a
snapshot image of the currently visible key-frame and saves it to a Windows bitmap file.
You will be prompted for your snapshot preferences
prior to the snapshot being taken.
displays all animation key-frames
simultaneously. 3D Canvas interpolated positions for objects are ghosted. The number of
key-frames to display can be set using the Ghost options, which can be displayed by
right-clicking.
plays the animation at full screen so that
you can use a third party application to capture a full screen image.
plays the
animation and records it to a Windows video file. You will be prompted for your recording preferences prior to the recording.
enables automatic repetition of
animations. When enabled an animation will loop continuously until either the
stop button is clicked
or the escape key is pressed.