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Creating Animations
The Animation controls are the tools you'll use most often when creating animations. The palette provides tools for most of the basic animation functions:
- viewing the timeline
- moving the current time
- setting the length of the animation
- specifying the Working Area
- previewing the animation
- recording key events
- adding/deleting key frames
The Animation controls appear at the bottom of the Working window as well as in the Terrain Editor and the Materials Lab.
The Animation controls are made up of three areas:
The Timeline, located at the top of the palette, displays a visual representation of the time in your animation. The indicator on the timeline (called the Current Time Indicator) represents the current time.
The Animation Preview Controls, located below the Timeline, let you preview your animation in the Working window.
The Key Frame Controls, located at the right edge of the palette, let you add and delete key frames.
To display the Animation controls in the Working window:
- By default the Animation controls are located at the bottom of the Working window. If the Selection palette appears at the bottom of the window, click the Time/Selection Palette toggle in the bottom-right corner of the Bryce window (or press S).
The button switches between the Selection palette and the Animation controls.
Setting Up an Animation
Before you start setting up key frames or adjusting the timeline, you should set up some general parameters for your animation.
The Animation Setup dialog lets you set up the duration, the frame rate and whether you want to display animation time as SMPTE (i.e.; hours:minutes:seconds:frames) or frame numbers.
The Animation Setup dialog can used to set the duration of your animation or to move to a specific point in the timeline.
To set the duration of your animation numerically:
1 Choose File menu> Animation Setup or double-click the Current Time Indicator. The Animation Setup dialog appears.
2 Click the Scale button. This switches the Duration fields to set the duration of your animation.
3 In the Duration fields, enter the total length of your animation in hours, minutes, seconds and frames.
When you enter a duration, Bryce automatically calculates the number of frames in the animation, based on the current frame rate. The number of frames is displayed in the Frame # field.
Setting the Frame Rate
The Frame rate for your animation can have a large impact on the final quality of your rendered movie. A low frame rate, is faster to render but may produce motion which is more jumpy, while a higher frame rate produces much smoother motion.
Bryce displays frames as frames per second (fps). 15 fps is usually good enough for motions displayed on a computer. 30 fps is standard for broadcast-quality video.
To set the frame rate for your animation:
1 Choose File menu> Animation Setup or double-click the Current Time Indicator. The Animation Setup dialog appears.
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