Incremental Animation

When an object's next position is calculated by adding some increment (velocity) to its current position, the animation can be classified as "incremental". The first three demos of the tutorial were incremental animations. The other types of animation covered in this tutorial are parametric and recorded.

Incremental animation is good for modelling natural motions, especially complex ones or user-responsive ones. A drawback is that it may be difficult to predict exactly where this type of motion will put an object at a certain point in time. If you want to have an object arrive at a specific point and the path isn't complicated, use parametric animation.

Incremental animation is affected by the round-off Director does to loch, locv, and other properties. The method of avoiding its adverse effects, described in The Round-Off Effect, will be used in the incremental animation samples in the tutorial.