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Creating keyframes in Auto Key mode

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Creating keyframes in Auto Key mode

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The very first release of 3ds Max introduced a revolutionary new feature called auto key mode. Nowadays, this is something that we see in almost every digital animation application. But 3ds Max pioneered the concept and that is in auto key mode whenever you change something you automatically create keyframes for an animation. Let's test this out. I've got a camera here, and I want it to truck across the room. To make that happen, I'll enable Auto Key mode. It's down here in the lower right, got a button Auto Key. And when that's on, we see the current viewport outlined in red. And we also see the time slider here, highlighted in red. And all we need to do is move something to create keyframes, but, however, there's a There's a little bit of a gotcha here. The important thing to realize about Auto Key is that when you create the very first keyframe on a particular transform or parameter such as the position of the camera, when you create that very first keyframe you need to be on some…

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