Selecting Types of Animated Objects
When you have a crowded scene, it’s sometimes difficult to select only the objects you want. To make selecting animated objects easier, you can choose from many types of filters on the Filters menu on the Select panel. For example, you can choose a filter so that only chain elements (which includes a chain’ roots, bones, joints, and effectors) can be selected, or choose a filter so that only objects with expressions can be selected.
To use the selection filters
1. In the Select panel of the main command panel, click the little arrow button to open the Filters menu.
2. Select the type of filter according to the animation element to select:
• Objects with Marking Sets—see Marking Parameters for Animation for more information.
• Objects with Fcurve Animation—see Editing Function Curves for more information.
• Objects with Expressions—see Animating with Expressions for more information.
• Objects with Constraint or Constraints themselves—see Animating with Constraints for more information.
• Objects with Mixer Animation (animated by actions)—see Actions [ Nonlinear Animation ] for more information.
• Objects with Shapes—see Shape Animation for more information.
• Chain Elements, Bones, Effectors, or Joints—see Character Animation for more information.
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