Animation Curves

This section describes the types of animation curves you can configure in CreativeStudio's Curve Editor panel.

Key Frames

You can select from among four animation-curve formats to fit your purpose of using animation.

The table below describes the animation curves you can work with in CreativeStudio.

Type Description
Constant The value between keyframes is always constant.
Step The value between keyframes changes at irregular intervals.
Linear The value between keyframes changes linearly.
Hermite The value between keyframes changes smoothly.
Adjust the key slope by moving slope located on both sides of the keyframe.

Constant format

Constant format only saves a single value for each key. It doesn't perform any special calculation.

The figure below shows constant format. The horizontal axis is time (frames) and the vertical axis is the value.

Constant Curve

Step format

Step format saves a set of key information consisting of a frame and a value. The value at a given frame is looked up based on the value at the previous frame.

The figure below shows step format.

Step Curve

Linear Format

Linear format saves a set of key information consisting of a frame and a value. The value at a given frame is calculated by linearly interpolating between the values of the two neighboring keys.

The figure below shows linear format.

Linear Curve

Hermite format

Hermite format saves a set of key information consisting of a frame, a value, and slope. The value at a given frame is calculated by using the Hermite formula to interpolate between the values of the two neighboring keys.

The figure below shows Hermite format.

Hermite Curve

When specifying a key, specify one of four keyframe formats depending on the intended use of the animation to reduce the amount of data that must be stored in each key and the amount of calculation that must be done to interpolate between keys.


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