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Editing a trajectory with a Motion Path

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Editing a trajectory with a Motion Path

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- [Instructor] In the previous movie, we tried to get a smooth animation by adjusting key frame values and tangent handles. I'll play back the animation and see what we've got. That technique can be challenging sometimes. If this were a more complicated walkthrough animation, we might opt to attach the camera to a spline using a path constraint. But this is actually a simple case and that would be overkill. I covered the path constraint technique in another course which is 3ds Max Cinematography for Visualization. In this case, we can get very good results using the Motion Path feature of the standard position controller. Stop that animation and rewind. All we have to do is select our animated object. In this case, the camera. And go over to the Motion panel and click the button labeled Motion Path to access a subpanel. Now we see that object's trajectory through space. And this shows why our animation looked a…

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