With the scene opened in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ), and the ball selected, click Graph Editors > Track View - Curve Editor from the main menu. The Track view window opens up. Make sure that the ball is our currently selected object in the scene, because Track View in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) displays the animation information of the selected object. What you see inside the Track View is the graphical representation of the animation of the ball. On the left side, you will see the name of our ball - Sphere01 and below that we have several items. Click on the Z Position item within it under the Position category. Now the Track view displays a smooth curve. This curve is nothing but the Z axis displacement of the ball over the whole 50 frames. Z axis displacement represents the motion of the ball up and down during the bounce. So literally, the curve is nothing but the bouncing of the ball.

The Track View in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) is shown above. The 1. Bounce Position is the point at which the ball touches the floor during the bounce. The 2. Time display shows the time from 0 to 50 frames just as in the main window. A thin vertical bar shows the current Time Slider position in the Track View. The Z Position is pointed by 3. Track being viewed in the figure. Now we have chosen only the Z Position channel or track. We can see the graphs of other Tracks by simply clicking on them. The 4. Panning/Zooming tools is nothing but the usual tools we have seen in the viewport tools section of 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ). These tools can be picked and used to pan and zoom the graph view in the Track View. Now lets observe things closely in the figure below