Keyframes are how you note a change in LightWave. Want a light to turn on at a specific frame? Keyframe its intensity. Want to move your camera? Keyframe its motion. Want to set up a color change in a surface? Keyframe the color change. Keyframes are the essential way to tell LightWave how you want to work.Keyframes are everywhere in LightWave and you'll see them on your timeline that runs under the main viewport. You only see keyframes marked for the active element, be it Objects, Bones, Lights or Camera, otherwise the timeline would be very crowded. All elements have at least one keyframe at frame 0 that determines their initial position, rotation and scale.
Keyframes can be created in several ways:
- Positioning, rotating or scaling something in Layout
- Hitting Return
- Adding keys in the Graph Editor.bak in an Envelope
Keyframes can be moved in time with:
and lastly keys can be deleted using the:
- Del key on a keyframe
- RMB click on a key in the Dopetrack
- and to remove a complete Envelope of keys, by Shift-clicking on an E icon.
To see the various ways you can add keyframes in Layout, read Animating - Creating Keyframes.