1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:10,820 Right now we are going to take a look at what's called the graph editor. 2 00:00:10,850 --> 00:00:12,650 So what is the graph editor. 3 00:00:12,650 --> 00:00:20,570 Well it's basically the tool that we're going to be using that allows for you to manipulate your animations 4 00:00:21,050 --> 00:00:27,080 just like the composite or the note editor is used to manipulate your materials and your textures and 5 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,180 add details and change them in that regard. 6 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:37,880 The graph editor is the tool that we use to manipulate Like I said our animation location rotation scaling 7 00:00:38,150 --> 00:00:39,840 and do all that kind of stuff. 8 00:00:39,980 --> 00:00:46,710 But in a more fine tweaking kind of way like with the node editor and the graph editor is going to be 9 00:00:46,710 --> 00:00:54,920 what allows for us to animate our balls so that we have a nice balance and also rotating it. 10 00:00:55,180 --> 00:01:01,280 So let's go ahead and check out the graph Ed. Let's split the viewport. 11 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:06,820 And as we look into it we're going to go over it in much more detail over here. 12 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,240 Let's switch it to graph editor. 13 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:13,700 Now you can see we have all kinds of interesting things happening here. 14 00:01:13,860 --> 00:01:21,540 And the graph editor is basically there's two kinds of curves that use in the graph editor and one of 15 00:01:21,540 --> 00:01:27,630 them is called The F curve which is the one that is displayed right here which is used for the animation 16 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,070 of your objects. 17 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:35,140 So this is one f curve and you can see that the colors represent the different axes. 18 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:42,050 So why are green is why blue is the red is the X curve. 19 00:01:42,420 --> 00:01:44,300 So we have all three of these. 20 00:01:44,370 --> 00:01:54,010 And just like in Object mode or any other mode really right click is to select G is to move and etc. 21 00:01:54,070 --> 00:01:55,080 etc.. 22 00:01:55,470 --> 00:02:00,420 All right before you touch anything don't go ahead and go crazy with your curves. 23 00:02:00,420 --> 00:02:04,550 Let's make sure we do it properly and I know it can be exciting. 24 00:02:04,740 --> 00:02:12,430 So right here making sure our empty is selected by the way which it is you can see right here is as 25 00:02:12,430 --> 00:02:13,790 empty as well. 26 00:02:13,810 --> 00:02:19,040 Let's go ahead and toggle the location and rotation which is under here. 27 00:02:19,150 --> 00:02:26,080 Now again if we had not blocked off the scaling we would have scaling all the way along here or it's 28 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,870 actually because we didn't animate the scaling that we don't have it here. 29 00:02:28,870 --> 00:02:31,230 So that helps us in that regard. 30 00:02:31,510 --> 00:02:39,220 Now let's go ahead and we're basically going to uncheck the Y location because we're not moving along 31 00:02:39,220 --> 00:02:41,730 the y axis so we don't need that. 32 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:48,510 We're going uncheck the X rotation and the Z rotation. 33 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:54,190 Now you can see that if we select these they are displayed over here as well. 34 00:02:54,190 --> 00:02:59,860 So all we need is X location which is moving from side to side Z location which is going to be moving 35 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:05,540 up and down and the y rotation which is going to be our ball tumbling around. 36 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:14,140 So the first thing let's take a look at the Z location over here that we have at the Z location is what's 37 00:03:14,140 --> 00:03:19,570 causing the bounce so you can see right here this right here is a start. 38 00:03:19,570 --> 00:03:21,410 This is frame one. 39 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:24,760 This is frame 24 when the ball hits the floor. 40 00:03:24,940 --> 00:03:26,540 And this is frame 48. 41 00:03:26,590 --> 00:03:35,500 When the ball goes out of frame and you can see that the the flow of the curve dictates or it shows 42 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:41,590 you how the flow of the actual animation of the ball or the empty is going. 43 00:03:41,590 --> 00:03:43,940 So this is kind of the same flow it has. 44 00:03:44,050 --> 00:03:50,890 As you can see just like with our animation it's kind of a you it's kind of a you flow. 45 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:52,650 So what we want to do. 46 00:03:52,750 --> 00:03:55,890 You float that sounds kind of interesting. 47 00:03:56,110 --> 00:04:01,780 What we want to do is we want to have our ball kind of because of it. 48 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,290 We wanted to make it seem like it's coming from a previous bounce. 49 00:04:05,410 --> 00:04:10,000 So we don't want it to just like fall into the frame as it's doing right now it's kind of just falling. 50 00:04:10,030 --> 00:04:15,500 We want it to go up a little bit and then go down so it looks like it came just from another bounce 51 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:18,820 so up and down the way to do that. 52 00:04:19,030 --> 00:04:25,630 If you right click here this is what's called a handle and the handle allows for you to manipulate the 53 00:04:25,630 --> 00:04:33,600 F curve and in turn manipulate how your object is moving along the timeline. 54 00:04:33,610 --> 00:04:39,400 Now you can see that right here down here these are the frames so it's the same thing as scrolling along 55 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:47,560 the timeline and the numbers up here are actually the value of your Z-axis which I will get into in 56 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,140 just a little bit to show you what I mean. 57 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:57,160 Now if we want this to go up and then down a really cool thing we could do is by selecting this as a 58 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:02,120 handle as I said and there's different kinds of handles that we have to choose from. 59 00:05:02,170 --> 00:05:06,630 If you go down here you could see if we put. 60 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:15,640 I believe it's key handle type and we have all different kinds of handles that are shown here. 61 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:23,490 Now if we grab the left part of this handle and then hit G to grab it and then why to grab it along 62 00:05:23,490 --> 00:05:24,860 the y axis. 63 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:29,100 You can see that we can bring it up which is pretty cool. 64 00:05:29,310 --> 00:05:36,420 So let's go ahead and grab this side of the handle here G and Y and just bring it up like so. 65 00:05:36,610 --> 00:05:41,450 And now you can see that's given us kind of this arch of up and then down. 66 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:48,160 So it's not just going down like this like one looks like the balls falling off of a table. 67 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:53,500 It's now going up and then down and I'm going to exaggerate a little bit. 68 00:05:53,510 --> 00:05:58,580 Now if we scroll through this you can see what's happening the ball has a little up motion and then 69 00:05:58,580 --> 00:05:59,470 down. 70 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,890 Let's do the same thing with this one as well. 71 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:11,120 Let's actually grab this one hit G and y grab it so that it has kind of an up and then it's going back 72 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,040 down towards the end. 73 00:06:14,550 --> 00:06:16,870 Now how do we do the bottom. 74 00:06:17,020 --> 00:06:22,090 Well the bottom we wanted to hit the ground and then go back up. 75 00:06:22,140 --> 00:06:24,490 So we wanted to be very sharp here. 76 00:06:24,690 --> 00:06:29,190 Let's try and go ahead and do that because as we scroll through here you can see has a U. 77 00:06:29,370 --> 00:06:33,850 If you look at the ball it's kind of just gliding on the floor. 78 00:06:33,870 --> 00:06:42,900 So if we grab this with G and why that's not going to work it seems because as I bring this one up it's 79 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:47,960 bringing the other one down and it still has the same shape it's still a U shape. 80 00:06:48,180 --> 00:06:50,670 So that will not work. 81 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:55,470 Now if I do select or if I do confirm this you can see if I move through it. 82 00:06:55,470 --> 00:06:58,750 Now the ball will actually go under the plane a little bit. 83 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,280 I can exaggerate this a lot to show you even more. 84 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:10,290 You can see that as I was saying the values on the left are the values of how high or how low the ball 85 00:07:10,290 --> 00:07:10,800 is. 86 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:11,960 So right here is zero. 87 00:07:11,970 --> 00:07:20,280 This is the ground floor and up is positive Blendr units and negative is under the ground floor. 88 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,670 So as you can see right here it's going a little bit under. 89 00:07:22,710 --> 00:07:24,350 So right here it's going under. 90 00:07:24,510 --> 00:07:30,510 And this is really cool because this allows for you to edit your animation let's say your ball originally 91 00:07:30,510 --> 00:07:33,180 you made it so it didn't completely touch the floor. 92 00:07:33,180 --> 00:07:36,210 And it was kind of you know an inch above the floor. 93 00:07:36,330 --> 00:07:41,670 Well you don't have to go back here and delete the keyframe and move it back and insert a new key frame 94 00:07:41,670 --> 00:07:42,870 to position it correctly. 95 00:07:42,870 --> 00:07:47,270 You could actually do all of this right here in the graph editor. 96 00:07:47,310 --> 00:07:52,310 So let me go ahead and undo that. 97 00:07:52,410 --> 00:07:53,380 And there we go. 98 00:07:53,430 --> 00:07:58,500 Now to do get our nice bounce we just have to change the handle type. 99 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:00,730 So let's go over here to Key. 100 00:08:01,260 --> 00:08:08,580 Let's go to a handle type and we're going to select free so free as the name implies means that you 101 00:08:08,580 --> 00:08:15,720 can now grab this by right clicking it hitting G and it will actually move it independent of the other 102 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:16,300 ones. 103 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:18,480 How awesome is that. 104 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:23,550 So now we can bring it up grabbed the other one bring it up as well. 105 00:08:24,740 --> 00:08:31,430 And now we could get a nice bounce so you see that our ball is going to go up bounce right here and 106 00:08:31,430 --> 00:08:34,560 then jump right back up right after the bounce. 107 00:08:34,730 --> 00:08:35,390 Pretty cool. 108 00:08:35,390 --> 00:08:38,640 So if I scroll through this boom. 109 00:08:38,750 --> 00:08:39,250 Look at that. 110 00:08:39,260 --> 00:08:42,240 That looks awesome. 111 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:43,670 That's pretty cool. 112 00:08:43,850 --> 00:08:50,870 So it's no longer just having a U shape and kind of gliding on the floor as it did before. 113 00:08:50,870 --> 00:08:52,590 That looks pretty cool. 114 00:08:52,820 --> 00:08:54,410 So that is the bounce of our ball. 115 00:08:54,410 --> 00:08:58,410 Now let's focus on let's check out the X location quickly. 116 00:08:58,850 --> 00:09:05,070 So the X location and let's hide the Z location for now we don't need that X location you could see 117 00:09:05,070 --> 00:09:08,820 that we have three handles as well. 118 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:13,810 As you can see from here let me hide the y one as well. 119 00:09:13,820 --> 00:09:17,300 I don't like that by accident because if we have three of them as well. 120 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:28,240 But since we're going to assume that the ball is moving on an x on the x axis in a consistent manner 121 00:09:28,660 --> 00:09:34,270 meaning it's just going straight along the x axis we can actually delete this one the middle one because 122 00:09:34,810 --> 00:09:44,030 you could see if I rotate it with the Archey rotated like so it will give us a strange kind of you know 123 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,090 it will move along the x axis very strangely. 124 00:09:47,090 --> 00:09:52,970 And so when it's straight like this that means it's just moving straight along the x axis and we can 125 00:09:52,970 --> 00:09:53,980 actually delete it. 126 00:09:54,020 --> 00:10:02,680 So X delete key frame and we've deleted it and so now it's just going straight along the x axis and 127 00:10:02,710 --> 00:10:05,550 we have no chance of it doing anything else. 128 00:10:05,620 --> 00:10:09,890 So just making it cleaner and more streamlined. 129 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:15,850 Now let's go ahead and actually close the X and let's go back to the Z quickly because there is something 130 00:10:15,850 --> 00:10:22,220 I want to focus on right here if I'm able to click on the graph. 131 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,000 There we go. 132 00:10:23,350 --> 00:10:23,710 All right. 133 00:10:23,710 --> 00:10:28,020 So on this one now since the ball is coming up here and then bouncing. 134 00:10:28,150 --> 00:10:33,520 I want the second one to be a little bit lower than this one because when it hits here there's going 135 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,160 to be gravity and friction. 136 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:41,250 So the second bounce is going to be obviously a little bit less high. 137 00:10:41,410 --> 00:10:44,190 Now again you could edit these. 138 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:51,190 So if I hit G and Y and bring it up you can see that if I scroll through this now my bounce is going 139 00:10:51,190 --> 00:10:53,050 to be very high. 140 00:10:53,050 --> 00:10:53,890 So that's pretty cool. 141 00:10:53,890 --> 00:10:58,150 Once again you don't have to manipulate the keyframe and delete it if you don't make your ball bounce 142 00:10:58,150 --> 00:11:00,540 high enough or whatever. 143 00:11:00,580 --> 00:11:04,690 You could just hit g y and bring it up and down. 144 00:11:04,690 --> 00:11:06,550 So I'm going to bring it down. 145 00:11:06,970 --> 00:11:09,040 And just so it's below this one. 146 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:15,620 So now it's bouncing and then bounces a little bit lower than when it first hit the floor. 147 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:25,240 So up and down values is the up and down or the height of your of your arm of your ball how high it 148 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:26,220 goes. 149 00:11:26,350 --> 00:11:35,290 If I bring it out so if I hit G and Y or if I just had G and bring it out this way you could see that 150 00:11:35,380 --> 00:11:40,950 on the timeline this will affect the time that it takes for it to bounce out. 151 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:49,580 So if I click here you can see that now if I scroll through it will take this much longer to get to 152 00:11:49,580 --> 00:11:51,790 its final resting position. 153 00:11:51,820 --> 00:11:53,320 Obviously we don't want that. 154 00:11:53,370 --> 00:12:01,550 I just want to show you that the up and down values is the value of the height of your Z-axis and the 155 00:12:01,550 --> 00:12:08,770 left and right values is how long it takes to get to that final frame or resting position. 156 00:12:09,140 --> 00:12:12,290 All right we're good on the Z location access. 157 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:13,880 Let's go ahead and hide that. 158 00:12:13,940 --> 00:12:17,620 And let's head on over to the Y rotation. 159 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,960 Last and final one we're finally here. 160 00:12:20,990 --> 00:12:28,580 All right so with this one we also have three handles on here and what we want to do with this is you 161 00:12:28,580 --> 00:12:32,980 will see that right now we have no rotation at all because we don't animate any rotation. 162 00:12:33,410 --> 00:12:43,520 But if we grab this final handle hit G and y we can bring it up on the y axis and once again left and 163 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:49,390 right is the time line so if I move it this way it will affect how long it takes to rotate. 164 00:12:49,460 --> 00:12:51,070 But if I move it up and down. 165 00:12:51,170 --> 00:12:55,510 This will affect how much rotation there is to it. 166 00:12:55,520 --> 00:13:03,470 So on the Z-axis it's how much movement along the z axis on the rotations how much rotation along the 167 00:13:03,470 --> 00:13:04,490 y axis. 168 00:13:04,580 --> 00:13:07,210 And again this way is how much time. 169 00:13:07,220 --> 00:13:11,290 So if I scroll this now you can see that it's rotating just a tiny bit. 170 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:17,660 Let's actually zoom out with the mouse wheel had g why bring it up so we could see it even better. 171 00:13:17,660 --> 00:13:20,670 So right now it's going to rotate about 35. 172 00:13:20,750 --> 00:13:26,450 I believe these are in degrees of 35 degrees so if I rotate it or if I scroll through this you can see 173 00:13:26,450 --> 00:13:34,640 that's rotating but it's actually rotating from when it hits the floor to hear it's not rotating between 174 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,070 the beginning and before it hits the floor. 175 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:42,310 So we want it rotating all the way from the beginning to the end. 176 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:43,530 So what do we do. 177 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:49,970 Well as you guessed it we do not need this keyframe or this handle right here because we're going to 178 00:13:49,970 --> 00:13:56,380 assume the rotation is consistent from the first from the beginning of the animation to the end. 179 00:13:56,660 --> 00:13:58,350 So selecting this one right here. 180 00:13:58,490 --> 00:14:05,060 Go ahead and hit X delete keyframes and now it's going to be rotating from the very beginning to the 181 00:14:05,060 --> 00:14:06,470 very end. 182 00:14:06,910 --> 00:14:14,870 If I scroll through this you can see what I mean except it's rotating same and rotating too much it 183 00:14:15,140 --> 00:14:16,870 looks more like it's tipping over. 184 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:28,510 So what we can do is grab this handle I can get it zoom in there grab the handle and we can head g and 185 00:14:28,510 --> 00:14:34,150 Y and bring it up and up and up but an easier way is to hit an on your keyboard. 186 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:40,640 Go over here to the value and you could see right now it's at 37 as dictated by here as well. 187 00:14:40,660 --> 00:14:41,920 It's about 37. 188 00:14:42,190 --> 00:14:52,270 If we put this to 360 and hit enter you will see that it will have a 360 degree spin from frame one 189 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,260 all the way to frame 48. 190 00:14:54,280 --> 00:15:02,740 So if I scroll through this there we go we have our ball bouncing in and out of our frame. 191 00:15:02,740 --> 00:15:04,300 How cool is that. 192 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:05,890 That is pretty awesome. 193 00:15:05,890 --> 00:15:07,390 So you can see it. 194 00:15:07,540 --> 00:15:09,110 It comes in. 195 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:11,320 It bounces and it goes back out. 196 00:15:11,470 --> 00:15:12,210 Pretty awesome. 197 00:15:12,220 --> 00:15:16,990 So that is how you manipulate things with the graph editor. 198 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,810 Of course here you could change the frame as has. 199 00:15:20,830 --> 00:15:25,060 Let's go back to the the Z location. 200 00:15:25,060 --> 00:15:27,530 It will actually be a little bit easier to see. 201 00:15:27,550 --> 00:15:29,960 You can see that with the Z location over here. 202 00:15:31,250 --> 00:15:32,390 I can find the graph 203 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:41,830 or I'll just show you with the Y rotation since we were on it anyways. 204 00:15:41,980 --> 00:15:42,970 There we go. 205 00:15:42,970 --> 00:15:44,670 I hadn't checked the eye. 206 00:15:44,740 --> 00:15:48,830 So that's why I couldn't see it make sense now. 207 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:53,350 You can also hit if you have something like to hit the delete key or the period key on your keyboard 208 00:15:53,710 --> 00:15:55,810 to zoom in as well. 209 00:15:55,810 --> 00:16:03,280 Now as I was saying you could grab it and move it along up here and this way or on the timeline this 210 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:09,560 way or you could hit an and manipulate it this way Sulphites scroll through the frames you can see that 211 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:14,440 it will actually move its along there as well in a different kind of way. 212 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:25,290 So there's many ways to manipulate your handles or your what you call your your f curves and right here. 213 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:27,760 Again this is of value going up and down. 214 00:16:29,060 --> 00:16:31,170 And right here is the frame value. 215 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:38,420 So like I said you can manipulate your curves in many different ways but right here for example when 216 00:16:38,420 --> 00:16:45,680 you are with though y curve or the y rotation it's very useful to just use this for the value. 217 00:16:45,690 --> 00:16:52,550 Again it's about using the shortcuts and the properties that we have to make our work flow as fast as 218 00:16:52,550 --> 00:16:53,600 possible. 219 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,830 So again that is the F curves and the graph editor. 220 00:16:57,950 --> 00:16:59,200 Very useful tool. 221 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:04,420 And so we took a look at the location and the rotation of our object. 222 00:17:04,610 --> 00:17:06,980 And let's scroll through this one more time. 223 00:17:08,950 --> 00:17:09,840 Beautiful. 224 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:11,950 So it looks awesome. 225 00:17:11,950 --> 00:17:14,970 And now let's go on to the next part. 226 00:17:15,010 --> 00:17:15,640 All right. 227 00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:18,820 Once again five File Save your scene. 228 00:17:18,870 --> 00:17:20,700 So file save as. 229 00:17:20,860 --> 00:17:23,710 I'm going to save it as project for once again. 230 00:17:23,710 --> 00:17:27,270 You want to create multiple projects just in case one gets corrupted. 231 00:17:27,490 --> 00:17:30,400 And let's head on to the next video. 232 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,150 All right I'll see you there. 233 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:37,760 Well well well look who showed up for their daily quote of the video. 234 00:17:37,930 --> 00:17:38,370 All right. 235 00:17:38,380 --> 00:17:45,180 You asked for it in the times of change one must adapt to simply refuse one will not last. 236 00:17:45,340 --> 00:17:46,660 So just put away the past. 237 00:17:46,660 --> 00:17:53,290 It serves you no more to create in this world one must live anew every single day in every single way. 238 00:17:53,290 --> 00:17:59,560 But the people who actually do this are so few don't stay stuck in old ways of thinking doing or being. 239 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,850 Adapt and change to be a better you every day. 240 00:18:02,850 --> 00:18:05,470 All right ladies and gentlemen every day is a new opportunity. 241 00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:06,010 Seize it. 242 00:18:06,010 --> 00:18:09,110 Grasp it and be new every day. 243 00:18:09,130 --> 00:18:10,700 Look at the world in a new way. 244 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:11,380 Appreciate you. 245 00:18:11,380 --> 00:18:12,890 See you in the next video.