Frame In

Sets the frame number to appear at the beginning of the timeline. This value must be within the Global In/Out values.

Frame Out

Sets the frame number to appear at the end of the timeline. This value must be within the Global In/Out values.

Curr. Frame

Specifies the number of the currently viewed frame in the viewport.

Key Frame

Specifies the current keyframe on the timeline.

Global In

Start frame for the timeline range, which defines the number of frames available for the scene.

Global Out

End frame for the timeline range, which defines the number of frames available for the scene.

Loop In

Sets the frame number where the loop begins. Yellow markers appear on the timeline showing the frame range of the loop.

Loop Out

Sets the last frame before the scene resets to the beginning of the loop.

Loop

Causes the played-back scene to be repeated in a continuous loop until the play button is pressed a second time. This control has the same effect as using the Loop button in the Playback panel below the timeline.

Frame Step

Sets the interval at which frames are played back in the viewport. A value of 2 causes the viewports to display only every second frame in the viewport during playback.

Format

Sets the speed at which frames are played back in the viewport (fps = frames per second). You can choose from NTSC (29.97 fps), PAL (25 fps), Film (24 fps), 30 fps, or Custom.

If you select Custom, you must define the number of frames per second in the Frame Rate text box.

Frame Rate

Displays the selected speed at which frames are played back in the viewport.

in seconds

The values of the keys at the current frame appear to change.

in frames

The fcurves are scaled to compensate for the change in frame rate.

Update

Specifies which selected objects update as the scene is played back. Select from the list of different types of objects to update.

Near

Specifies which unselected objects in the foreground update as the scene is played back. The distance at which objects are considered to be near is set by the Near Dist. parameter.

Far

Specifies which unselected objects in the background update as the scene is played back. The distance at which objects are considered to be far is set by the Near Dist. parameter.

Near Dist.

Specifies the threshold in Softimage units at which objects considered to be “near” are regarded as “far” when calculating which objects to update during replay.

Update Group Visibilities

Updates groups with animated visibilities at each frame change.

Command

Executes a script whenever a frame is displayed. Enter the script name in this box.