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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: lightwave & anim mapping
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Date: 25 Apr 91 14:53:59 GMT
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In article <22060012@hpmwmat.HP.COM> mikep@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Mike Powell) writes:
>Scott Busse writes:
>>Speaking of RTFM, I have been reading the Toaster manual, and have not found
>>any mention of acceleration/deceleration for object motion. Does this
>>function exist? Any toaster/Lightwave experts out there?
>	Hi Scott...  no.  accel/decel doesn't exist.

As Mike mentioned, explicit accel/decel control does not exist. However,
creating accel/decel with the key frames is fairly trivial. It requires
a little math, but with the spline interpolation, not many key frames
are needed (you just have to watch for overshoot). It would be real nice
if Lightwave graphed out distance, velocity, acceleration, angle, etc.
over time and allowed interactive modification of that graph. I'll
mention this to Allen.
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