Setting transforms and fieldings in the Drawing Window

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Setting transforms and fieldings in the Drawing Window

You can set the values for Position nodes in the XSheet. However, you can also set some values in the Drawing Window. Director creates any necessary keyframes in the XSheet, and sets their values. You can set a node's E/W and N/S position:

You can set the E/W and N/S moves for a given frame simply by dragging a border or tag (for Transform-type nodes) or a control (for Camera nodes)

Alternatively you can draw a curved path to set the movement of a Position node, provided you can set both E/W and N/S moves

and also:

You can set the Angle by dragging with the Rotate tool; see The standard Draw toolkit.

You can set the Scale by dragging with the Scaling tool; see The standard Draw toolkit.

You can set the Center (on those Transform-type nodes that use it) by dragging a control.

For details of setting E/W and N/S moves and the Center see Using borders and controls below; for details of paths see Using path mode.

Using borders and controls
Using path mode

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Setting transforms and fieldings in the Drawing Window