Animation object cannot be created directly. It is used by a number of other objects and provides a set of attributes for controlling timing. The attributes modify the local time and the effect propagates also to all the sub objects.

The object defines the following attributes:

Begin: Specifies the beginning of the object's time line.

End: Specifies the end of the object's time line.

Frequency: Scale factor for time. For example, setting Frequency to 2.0, will make the object run twice as fast.

Phase: Translation factor for time.

Periodic: Makes the time periodic, for creating loop animation effects.

Enable Time Curve: Enables the time deformation curve. If set, the time curve will be used for making objects local time non-linear.

Time Curve: The curve for deforming object's local time.

	Note
	If this feature is used, the key frame interface is no longer be able to show exact time values for the key frames!