Auto Expand

The choices you make on the Auto Expand submenu determines the behavior of the Controller window display. To turn Auto Expand off with a single click, turn on Manual Navigation. The Auto Expand settings are then disregarded.

• Track View > Show menu > Auto Expand submenu

When you are working on a specific animation task, turn off the unnecessary options to focus the Controller window contents on what you need to see.

Note: The default auto-navigation setting for the Dope Sheet editor auto-expands only to the node track for the currently selected object. This reduces the number of tracks whose keys need to be displayed and also helps enforce the top-down workflow for which the Dope Sheet editor is designed.

Interface

Selected Objects Only

When this is on, the controller window displays the tracks for highlighted objects only. Default=On.

Transforms

Expands the Hierarchy list to display the highlighted object's Transform track. Default=On.

XYZ Components

Expands the highlighted object's Transform track to display individual XYZ components contained in each Transform controller (such as Position and Scale).

Limits

Expands the highlighted object's Limits track to display its parameters (such as Upper Limit and Lower Smoothing). To be used in conjunction with the Limit Controller. Default=On.

Keyable

Expands the highlighted object's Hierarchy list to display keyable tracks. You must also enable Transform or XYZ Components to see results. Also expands the Environment and Global Shadow Parameters Hierarchy lists.

Animated

Expands the highlighted object's Hierarchy list to display animated tracks.

Base Objects

Expands the highlighted object's base object track to display its parameters (such as Height/Width/Length).

Modifiers

Expands the highlighted object's modifier track to display modifiers applied to that object.

Materials

Expands the highlighted object's material track to display materials parameters.

Children

Expands the Hierarchy list to display all children starting from the highlighted object.