Setting default in/out tangents in 3dsmax7?

MoP

Hey guys, I've been doing a little animation recently and I've been wasting lots of time changing all my animation keyframe tangents from bezier curves to stepped keys.

When I was trying out the max8 trial, I noticed this little icon nestled in among the animation buttons at the bottom:



This button does not exist in Max7, nor can I seem to find any info on setting default in/out tangents for newly-created keyframes... I thought it might be in the Preferences menu somewhere (which is where Max Help led me), but no joy, that was a dead end.

Is there any way to set default keyframe tangents in Max7? Maybe a maxscript or free plugin, if it's not in the program as standard? If anyone has any idea, I'm all ears!

Thanks

Fordy

Hi MoP

Just had a quick look in the preferences and on the animation tab there are the controller defaults, im not entierly sure if this is what your after. There are a load of controller in there that can be edited (click Set Defaults, choose a controller and click Set)

I am more than likely talking a load of bollox though.

CrazyButcher

there is a script for max4 and up, on scriptspot
http://www.scriptspot.com/download.asp?ID=1069

that allows mass changes to keys, but I would think there might be something better in max7

FatAssasin

That flyout sets the tangent type for newly created keys, it doesn't change existing keys. But it pretty easy to change existing keys, just select them in the track view and click one of the tangent type buttons along the top of the track view window.

Eric Chadwick

Fordy is correct. Defaults are set there. Only need to set one TCB and one Bezier, all the rest in the list use the same settings. Then when you add a new key, it uses those defaults, depending on which controller type you're using.

MoP

Ahh, thanks guys!
What Fordy and EricChadwick said is what I was looking for.
That's actually the first place I looked, but all I did was click "Set Defaults", and just saw a list of things that seemed unrelated, so I closed it - if I'd just clicked once more I'd have found what I was looking for!

Fordy

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Fordy is correct.

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Well theres a bloody first!

FatAssasin

That flyout you circled also sets the defaults (for Euler XYZ controllers), you just don't have to go into the preferences to do it.