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Animating lights in max
This afternoon I spent a while working on a lighting previewer. Then max spoiled it Im in max 8 I want to have a day cycle animation, where an ambient light turns from day to night and back over a few hundred frames. The ambient omni in the scene will change colour and strength, then I'll have a sun and maybe a moon on an… -
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When you say "animation blend on the status bar is set to smooth", what are you referring to? Have you checked the curves in Track View? -
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What are your default tangents? Customize > Prefs > Animation > Set Defaults I find the list in there a bit misleading, as there are really only two to set... Bezier and TCB. -
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Yup, in track view some are curved and some are stepped. THe blend mode is at the immediate right to the timescrubber, its a dropdown/up list of aniamtion curves like smooth and stepped and fastin. Soemties I think that its the order I'm animating - 6am to noon works fine, then noon to midnight works, then I go and add the… -
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Hmm - I had set all the keys to be that type, restarted max, checked the curve settings and then started the entire project again and was getting the same issues. -
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That blend mode flyout is only to set the default curve type of new keys, it doesn't change existing keys. In the track view, select all the keys and change them to the smart curve type, or whatever its called. The bezier handles should flatten out at the top and bottom most keys and not let the curves shoot past them.…
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