{"id":78,"date":"2006-08-15T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-08-15T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T23:52:00","slug":"understanding-the-graph-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/15\/understanding-the-graph-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the graph editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/videos\/video_tangents.mov\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"understanding the graph editor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/screenshot-video-789920.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is an introduction to Maya graph editor. The video above is encoded in H264.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see the &#8220;Spline tangent mode&#8221; is overshootint the curve between Peaks 2 and 3. We are loosing the control over the motion between the 2 poses.<\/p>\n<p>In linear mode the motion is very robotic, very&#8230;. linear \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Step mode. This is the option we normally choose to block our animation. We go from one pose to the next with no transition.<\/p>\n<p>In this example, Clamped, Flat and Plateau don&#8217;t present much difference. The difference we can notice is the kink happening in Flat mode on key 4 and the stronger ease in\/ease out in Plateau compared to Clamped.<\/p>\n<p>And here is a presentation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comet-cartoons.com\/melscript.php\">Michael Comet&#8217;s Autotangent mel script<\/a>. The video below is encoded using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/download\/codecs.asp\">Techsmith codec<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/videos\/MichaelCometAutotangent.mov\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"understanding the graph editor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/screenshot-comet.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next time I will post a presentation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinanimator.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/tweenmachine-v2-in-works.html\">Justin Barrett TweenMachine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Screenshots of the first video<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/01-757004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/01-746141.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/03-726769.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/03-718410.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/02-737007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/02-734176.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/06-782776.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/06-780971.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/05-787346.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/05-785645.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/4-793304.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/4-790150.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/tangentClamped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"understanding the graph editor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/tangentClampedTh.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/tangentFlat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"understanding the graph editor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/tangentFlatTh.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/tangentPlateau.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"understanding the graph editor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/tangentPlateauTh.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an introduction to Maya graph editor. The video above is encoded in H264. As you can see the &#8220;Spline tangent mode&#8221; is overshootint the curve between Peaks 2 and 3. We are loosing the control over the motion between the 2 poses. In linear mode the motion is very robotic, very&#8230;. linear \ud83d\ude09 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}