The Ghost tool is great for previewing the path of your objects through 3D space. Let’s set one up and see how it can be used.
Select the object / control object
Open ‘Visualize > Ghost Selected’ and click on the options icon:
This will open the Ghost options:
Global preferences
Use the preferences set in our animation, to review the global settings click on the running man gear icon and select ‘Animation’ from the preferences window that opens:
And the Ghosts settings will be displayed:
Custom Frames
Allows you to define the frames that you want to display a ghosted image for:
Custom Frame Steps
Lets you override values for the same settings as the global animation preferences:
Keyframes
Allows us to add ghosts for either the full length of the time slider or a specific range of frames.
Remove Ghosts
From the visualize menu, select either “Unghost selected” (If you have an object selected), or “Unghost All”:
