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	Welcome to Part Two of the Creating a Simple Animation tutorial. In [[Creating a Simple Animation-Part One\|Part One]] we looked at creating an animation using only the main window. If you haven't read through that already you might want to do so, as it describes some things we're doing in this part. You can read it [[Creating a Simple Animation-Part One\|here]].		Welcome to Part Two of the Creating a Simple Animation tutorial. In [[Creating a Simple Animation-Part One\|Part One]] we looked at creating an animation using only the main window. If you haven't read through that already you might want to do so, as it describes some things we're doing in this part. You can read it [[Creating a Simple Animation-Part One\|here]].

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-Start Terragen 2.
+Start Terragen.
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 Create a Sphere object to animate. You can do this by clicking on the Objects layout button and then using Add Object button at the top right. Click the button and choose '''Object > Sphere''' from the menu that pops up.
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 Change back to the main window and use the timeline slider to scrub back and forth. You'll see that the sphere is moving along the X axis.
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-Change back to the Animation Panel. Look at the curve and you'll see it's actually a slight curve and not a straight line between the two keys. This is because the TCB interpolation method TG2 uses by default smooths or "eases" the values around keys.
+Change back to the Animation Panel. Look at the curve and you'll see it's actually a slight curve and not a straight line between the two keys. This is because the TCB interpolation method Terragen uses by default smooths or "eases" the values around keys.
 We won't discuss exactly what the shape of the curve means here. To find out more please read [[this]] part of the guide, which talks about understanding curves in the Curve Editor.

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-Welcome to Part Two of the Creating a Simple Animation tutorial. In Part One we looked at creating an animation using only the main window. If you haven't read through that already you might want to do so, as it describes some things we're doing in this part.
+Welcome to Part Two of the Creating a Simple Animation tutorial. In [[Creating a Simple Animation-Part One|Part One]] we looked at creating an animation using only the main window. If you haven't read through that already you might want to do so, as it describes some things we're doing in this part. You can read it [[Creating a Simple Animation-Part One|here]].
 In this part of the tutorial we're going to create a very similar animation using the [[Animation Panel]]. If you want to find out more about the Animation Panel you can read about it [[Animation Panel|here]]. You might want to go that now to get an overview of the panel and its different parts.

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 You might be wondering why we can't use Linear interpolation if we want straight lines, between frame 40 and 60 for example. The simple answer is that you can't mix interpolation modes to make one part of the curve straight and another curved. Try changing the curve interpolation to Linear, using the '''Mode popup''' under the node list. You can see that's not really want we want. Here's a movie showing what this motion looks like:
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 That's the end of the tutorial. We've now created an animation using the Animation Panel and the Curve Editor. Here's what the animation looks like when rendered:
 Although there are quite a lot of steps in this part of the tutorial it all takes longer to describe than do. When you get used to working with Curve Editor you'll find it's a very convenient way to create and edit animations.
-You can download a project file for this part of the tutorial here.
+You can download a project file for this part of the tutorial [[Media:Simple animation tutorial pt2.tgd|here]].

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