Absolute Effect field, 959
Absolute pasting, 799
Acceleration Controls, 1055
Action Safe, 57-58
actions, 856-859, 862
Activate Grid Object, 215
active viewport, 45-49, 690
ActiveShade, 56, 999-1001, 1208
adaptive degradation, 58-60
Adaptive Halton method, 533
Adaptive methods, 534
Adaptive Undersampling option, 674
Adaptive Uniform method, 533
Add Display Filter list, 185
Add Keys button, 796, 800
Add Layer Track Above command, 825
Add Layer Track Below menu command, 825
Add modifier, 596
additional interface elements, 20-21
Additive Reflection Type, 1059
Adjust Pivot rollout, 207
Adjust Transform rollout, 208
Adobe Illustrator file, 80
Adobe Reader, 1212
Advanced Controls rollout, 572
Advanced Effects rollout, 657-658
Advanced Lighting Override, 542, 684
Advanced Lighting panel, 184, 671-677, 678, 683, 1004
Advanced panel, 1097
Advanced Parameters rollout, 727, 965
Advanced Raytraced Shadows, 647, 658
Advanced Springs rollout, 727
Advanced Transparency controls, 532
Advanced Transparency group, 1059
AEC objects, 165-167
Affect Hierarchy Only mode, 207
Affect Object Only mode, 207, 208
Affect Pivot Only mode, 207
After Effects, 1106-1108
AfterBurn plug-in demo, 1180-1181
AI (Illustrator) file, 80
aiming cameras, 633-634
Align Camera menu command, 634
Align commands, 211-214
Align Parameters rollout, 233
Align submenu, 255
aligning cameras, 634-636
alignment parameters, 286
Alignment section, 594, 1120
All Animated Controllers, 269
All IDs drop-down list, 599
All Instances menu command, 269
All Relationships menu command, 269
Allow Wheel Penetration, 904
Along Offset Splines, 874
Along Parallel Splines, 874
Altitude value, 662
Ambient and Diffuse colors, 518
Ambient Color material property, 586
Ambient color swatch, 506
ambient light, 647, 649
AMD Athlon-based computer, 1188
Ame-dark interface, 118
Ame-light interface, 118
Analyze World menu command, 910
anatomy. See bone systems; inverse kinematics; Skin modifiers
Animabets website, 4
animated Skin modifiers. See Skin modifiers
animation. See also Character Studio; controllers
adding custom parameters, 738-739
cloth dynamics, 920-924
constraints, 741-750
Flex modifier, 723-728
hair dynamics, 917-920
keyframe, 689-714
modifiers, 721-732
Motion Mixer, 821-830
Parameter Collector, 735-738
wiring parameters, 732-735
Animation Layers
collapsing, 717-718
enabling, 717
example of use, 718-719
overview, 715, 1184
setting properties, 717
toolbar, 715-717
Animation menu, 752
Animation modifiers, 280
Animation panel, 702-703, 751
Anisotropic shader, 528-529
Anisotropy material property, 587
Anti-alias filters, 1007-1008
anti-aliasing filters, 533, 1008
anti-virus software, 1213
Aperture Width drop-down list, 1004
Applied inverse kinematics (Applied IK), 942-943
Arch & Design materials, 1067-1068
Area filter, 1007
Area Light Parameters rollout, 650, 1068
Area Omni and Area Spot lights, 650
Area Shadows, 647, 658
arms, 8-9
Arrange Children menu command, 260
Array Dimensions section, 236
arrays, 221, 235-240
artifacts, 533
artificial light, 645-646
assemblies, 243-246
Assembly Heads subcategory, 244
asset browser, 82-83
Asset Tracking system, 99-101
Assign Controller menu command, 264
Assign Controller rollout, 751
Assign Controllers rollout, 698
Assign New Material, 545
Assign Renderer rollout, 1002
Assign Vertex Colors utility, 581, 626
assigned controllers, 751-754
asterisk (*), 173
Atmosphere Shadows section, 658
Atmospheres & Effects rollout, 1024
Atmospheric Apparatus gizmos, 1023-1024, 1031
Atmospheric Shaders, 1065
Attach panel, 84
attaching objects, 242
Attachment constraint, 741, 742-743
Attenuation, 657
Attenuation Color swatch, 664
Attribute Holder modifier, 731-732
Attribute rollout, 738
Audio controller, 756
Auto Backup, 69, 74-75
auto increment file number, 69
Auto Key mode, 397, 692, 694
Auto Reflect/Refract Maps section, 1009
Auto Secondary Element rollout, 1044
Auto Secondary Lens Effect, 1043-1044
Auto Smooth Edge, 291
AutoCAD ACI palette, 143
AutoCAD Import, 1185
AutoCAD VIZ, 165
Autodesk DWF Viewer, 78
Autodesk Look-up Table (LUT) file, 133
Autodesk ME Image Sequence File (IMSQ), 706, 1005
Autodesk Vault
changing asset paths, 104-105
getting and adding Vault files, 104
loading older file versions, 104
opening Vault files, 101-102
proxies, 105
using Asset Tracking interface, 102-103
Autogrid, 215
AutoGrid check box, 321
Automatic Exposure Control, 1019
Automatic Mapping rollout, 617-618
Automatic Reparameterization, 431
automatically assigned controllers, 751
Available track, 772
AVI (Microsoft Video) file, 706
Avoid behavior, 992
axes, 198
axonometric views, 40
Azimuth, 662