Time for action – copying keyframes to make a rowing cycle
Everybody likes to save work. Now that you have made a single rowing cycle, you can just copy it and move the copy down the timeline for a smooth flowing animation using the following steps:
- Use the Current Editor Type button at the lower-left corner of the Timeline window, which is below 3D View, to change Timeline to Graph Editor in the window. Move the top edge of the window up vertically so that you can use the Graph Editor more easily.
- Using the RMB and Shift + RMB, select both oars and both oarlocks.
- Use Ctrl + MMB and Shift + MMB so that you can see all the F-Curves, as shown in the next screenshot.
- With the cursor over the Graph Editor, press A to deselect all the keyframes. Use Border Select to choose all the keyframes between frame 26 and frame 58, as shown in the following screenshot. You can see that all the keyframes from frame 26 onward are highlighted.
- Move the current frame indicator to frame 84 in the Graph Editor...
