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# Changing Views

You can change the orientation to view a scene from many angles. This can help you set up motion paths, light sources, and camera angles more easily.

From the View box, select an option to set the view in the image window.

(a) View box

Most of the View box options have hotkey shortcuts displayed in the expanded list. Some of these hotkey options are also cycle options. For example, pressing F5 repeatedly cycles through the animation channels, tracks, and info views.

You can also toggle ` (on the Tilde key) to alternate between the Schematic view and the previous view. For information on using the schematic, see About Schematics.

When accessing Action through Batch, you also have the option of context views in the View box. Action uses Context1 as it is set in Batch. For example, if the Batch context is set on the result of an Optics node for which the current Action node is an input, changes you make in Action appear in context of the Optics node. See Viewing Nodes in Context.