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Hi everyone How you all doing ?

Well i have started on a project and its going well, Design is ok, Rendering of certain surface areas are small a problem due to lack of experience but it will come in time.
Ive got a basic understanding of keyframes and i have got a few movements happening with my design the only problem i have is working out how to use the morph tool properly.
I got some movement but it wasnt really the desired effect i wanted.
There wasn't a smooth transition between the base position and the end position. Also i only found the movement by sliding the bar.

Is there any info on how to set the morph and have it work on a play-back
link on the control panel ?
Is there i video tutorial on Morphing objects or a mouth of a charater ?
Is there something i have missed in the PDF that comes with the software that explains all of this ?

Please any help would be really welcome.

There is some information in the very last part of chapter9_animation.pdf

in order to keyframe morph's and few other things. you need to right click on the record button to bring up the keying panel. Right click in the keying panel and click browse attributes, look for your object, expand it and find morphs, when you click it it should show in the keying panel. now you can key frame morphs, you also have to do this for your textures if you want them to keyframe.

There are some bugs with the morph and motion, that can be worked out but you have to make sure when you are keyframing the morph there are no other properties being recorded, or when you try and overlay the morph with say a keyframed walk the object will try in be at to places at once and destroy itself.

Many thanks for the info guys, i was reading the PDF but it didnt make as much sense as the video tutorials.
I'll try that out with the attributes panel.

Thanks agiain, ill let you know how my project goes.