Record path

The Record path animation records atoms trajectories along the presentation as a path. It adds a track that records atoms trajectories. You can use this animation together with other animations that affect atomic positions (e.g., Assemble, Dock, Move atoms, Simulate, etc.) to record the resulting path.

See also: Play path, Play reverse path, Simulate animations.

Adding the animation

Double-click on the Record path animation effect in the Animation panel of the Animator. The keyframe will be placed at the current frame, move it if needed.

The track colors indicate whether positions have been recorded: at a given frame, a green segment indicates that positions have been recorded, while a red segment indicates that positions have not yet been recorded or have become invalid.

Tip

The Animator executes animations from the top down, so place the Record path animation after the ones that you want to record.

Note

You can always move the keyframes of the animation.

Tip

You can enable/disable the path recording for the performance reasons, e.g., when you are still working on the presentation or once the whole path has been recorded and won't be changed. You can do this in the Inspector of this animation or right-click on this animation in the Animator and change Enable recording. If the recording is disabled then the animation controllers will be darkened.

Exporting the path

Once the path has been recorded by the animation (i.e., the presentation has been played and the Record path animation is fully green), you can add the corresponding Path node in the document using one of the following ways:

• in the Inspector of this animation, click on Create path;
• in the Animator, right-click on the Record path animation and choose Create path.