Tutorial 12: Time Offset



You may have some paths that you wish to start later on the timeline.

Select Path 1. Now click on the PATH button.

See the time offset box. Click on it. Enter 4 (seconds). Hit return.

Now look at the timeline. You moved the first path, so that it starts at 4 seconds.

But take note that it’s Roll Path Didn’t NOR did it’s focus on path 2, so You will also have to move those.

Now Play it back.

You are Now a monster with time offset.

NOTE: This Could be useful for any number of things, but I never used it. Instead, if I needed a path shifted forward on the timeline, I did the following: THIS IS USEFUL:

When you click on a node, you know how you hold the mouse button down to drag the node? Diggit: Hold the Shift key while dragging, and you’ll drag EVERY NODE on that timeline. It’s how you Manually offset a channel. Much goodness.