09-05-2007, 09:40 AM
It is because set key doesn't seem to work with afterburn. When you create a new key frame with autokey enabled the initial key is created at frame 0.
Say you have some existing animation going from frame 0-100 and you want to animate some different properties that are not yet animated from 100-200 when you create the new keys the initial key is created at 0 and you have to manually move it to 100. I'm not aware of a way to change this behaviour in max so i thought if you could just create a key for everything in the afterburn effect at an arbitrary point that might be a slight work around if not ideal. Ultimately some implimination of set key for afterburn would be useful, please correct me if I have just missed the correct way of doing this!
Say you have some existing animation going from frame 0-100 and you want to animate some different properties that are not yet animated from 100-200 when you create the new keys the initial key is created at 0 and you have to manually move it to 100. I'm not aware of a way to change this behaviour in max so i thought if you could just create a key for everything in the afterburn effect at an arbitrary point that might be a slight work around if not ideal. Ultimately some implimination of set key for afterburn would be useful, please correct me if I have just missed the correct way of doing this!