2011-05-25, 05:57 AM
You probably already know, but I just figured out what the 'Freeze' button in keynote does- changes your model in Meta to match the current pose in Keynote. It could be helpful but also dangerous because it doesn't show up until you leave 'motion' mode. If you push it accidentally and save, your model and animations are toast.
It could be helpful for setting up the morph objects for your sheep though. You could 'freeze' a copy of the sheep into a close-to-right pose, tweak it to perfect in Meta, them import it as a morph object to your regular sheep model. Maybe easier than tweaking the morph pose manually.
If anybody messes up their model with 'freeze', you can "undo" it in Meta, but not with Keynote's undo. I think it would have been better if Keynote created the Freeze as a new object.
It could be helpful for setting up the morph objects for your sheep though. You could 'freeze' a copy of the sheep into a close-to-right pose, tweak it to perfect in Meta, them import it as a morph object to your regular sheep model. Maybe easier than tweaking the morph pose manually.
If anybody messes up their model with 'freeze', you can "undo" it in Meta, but not with Keynote's undo. I think it would have been better if Keynote created the Freeze as a new object.