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Playing Animations and Simulations

Although playing an animation or simulation is as simple as clicking the Play icon, there are a number of options that first need to be set up for a scene.

The first thing you need to do before even starting an animation or simulation is to set up your frame rate and format to match the medium in which you will be saving the final animation or simulation. See:

• Setting the Scene’s Frame Format and Rate.

• Setting the Playback Frame Rate and Format

A big part of the animation process is the constant tweaking and replaying of the animation to see that you get things right. There are a number of tools in Softimage that help you do this. See:

• Playing Animations or Simulations

• Playing Back All Frames or Playing in Real Time.

• Optimizing the Playback Speed, which gives a number of tips on how you can make the playback go as quickly as possible.

In addition to playing the animation in a viewport, you can also capture images from an animation sequence and play them back in a flipbook. See:

• Capturing Animation in a Viewport (Flipbook)

• Previewing Animation in a Flipbook

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