Glossary
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- active rigid body
A dynamic object that is affected by fields and collisions.
- aim constraint
Forces the rotations of an object always to point toward the position of another object or to the average of the positions of several objects.
- alpha channel
The channel of an image file that defines areas of transparency. The alpha channel is expressed in grayscale.
- ambient lights
Cast an even light throughout a scene.
- ambient occlusion
A rendering function that creates a typically black-and-white image to measure the amount of light that is occluded (blocked) at the intersection between objects, which is very useful for contact shadows.
- animation curves
Graphical representation of the animation of an object shown as a curve graph of an object's attribute ...
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