Button Panel

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The button panel contains the following buttons:

Disable Interpolation Button

The Disable Interpolation button allows you to temporarily disable interpolation. When pressed, it turns red (and the Play button is grayed out). This button is useful when you want to copy a pose, either from a defined keyframe or from an interpolated keyframe. (This technique differs from copy/paste because you can copy in-between poses, not just keyframes.)

Here's how you might use this button:

  1. Go to the frame you want to copy FROM.
  2. Press the Disable Interpolation button.
  3. Go to the frame you want to copy TO.
  4. Set the keyframes. You can use the Master record button, or any lower-level buttons to record the keyframes.
  5. Press the Disable Interpolation button again so that interpolation resumes. Continue editing.

Zoom Buttons

The Zoom timeline in button moves you closer to the window. You see less of the timeline because it is magnified.

The Default timeline zoom level button returns the view to its original size.

The Zoom timeline to fit button sizes the timeline to fit within the current window.

The Zoom timeline out button moves you farther away from the window. The timeline becomes smaller, so you can see more of it.

Create Trigger Button

The Create Trigger button is used to create a sensor in the scene that will start your animation. The button is red until you have explicitly created a sensor for the animation. (If nothing is selected, it is grayed out.) Initially, a default touch sensor is automatically created so that you can preview the animation in Cosmo Player. Once you create your own sensor, the default touch sensor is removed.

When you press the button, the sensor panel appears. Select a sensor and press OK. Current choices for the sensor are

Once you have created a trigger, the button turns black. You can press the button again to create additional triggers.

Play and Rewind Buttons

This set of buttons is similar to the set of buttons on a VCR. The middle button is Stop. The button on the far right is Play, and the button on the far left is Rewind to the start. The second button from the left steps back one frame. The second button from the right steps forward one frame.

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