.. _Animation: ===================================== Animation ===================================== Animation in |kit_long| based apps is done primarily through external (content creation / dcc) tools. However, an editing platform and timeline allow for simplifying common tasks is included in |composer|. This section is intended to introduce and define the usage of the animation tools currently found within |composer|. Animation extensions can be toggled from the extension manager. Almost all animation extensions are prefixed with **omni.anim**. .. image:: /content/images/anim_extensionManager.jpg :align: center :alt: Animation extensions Once an animation extension is toggled, a sub-menu under the **Animation** menu appears. note: |composer| and |machinima| have some animation features as part of the default layout. In |composer| Go to “layout/Animation” or Ctrl 2 to activate the animation layout. You can also find the anim tools listed under the window/animation menu in |composer|. .. image:: /content/images/anim_menu.jpg :align: center :alt: Animation Menu .. note:: There are currently some limitations on animation curve data usage in the sequencer. While you can create and move tracks with curve data animation - Not all sequencer functions available to timesample data tracks - are available to animation curve data. Animation curve data will be fully supported in the sequencer in an upcoming release. The list of the available tools for the animation pipeline .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 ext_animation-timeline.rst ext_animation_curves.rst ext_animation-clips.rst ext_animation-constraints.rst ext_animation-deformers.rst ext_animation-graph.rst ext_animation-recorder.rst ext_animation-retargeting.rst ext_animation-skel-vis.rst ext_sequencer.rst Deprecated Extensions ----------------------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 ext_keyframer.rst ext_animation-timesample.rst