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1102 Chapter 14: Character Studio

If two states have the same precedence, t he state

with a greater weight will be give higher priority

considered during random selection.

Animation Star t Percent—Specifies where in the

clip’s animation you want it to start playing when

the state is active.

Atthedefaultvalueof0,theanimationwillstart

once the state is active. If the value is 66, the

animationwillstartplayingtwo-thirdsofthe

wayinoncethestatebecomesactive. Youcan

alsorandomizewheretheanimationstartsby

specifying a Animation Start Deviation value

other than 0.

Animation Star t Deviation—Yo u c a n r a n d o m i z e

where the animation starts by specifying a

Animation Start Deviation value other than 0.

Range=0.0 to 1.0.

StateActivePercent—Specifies the percentage of

time the state needs to be valid over its interval

in order for it to be selected. Range=0 to 100.

Default=50.

Clip Select Seed—Changes how the random

selections o ccur.

If the value stays the same, you are guaranteed to

get the same random selections for that st ate.

OK —Acceptschangesandclosesthedialog.

Synthesis Panel

Select a Crowd object. > Modify p anel > Global Clip

Controllers rollout > New > Choose a GlobalClip object.

> Select the object in the list. > Edit > Synthesis dialog >

Synthesis panel

Open Track V iew > Global Tracks > Block Control >

GlobalClip Properties > Synthesis dialog > Syn thesis panel

Controls in the Synthesis panel are for adding

objects to be synthesized, select ing blend

transition points, and perfor ming the synthesis.

When you synthesize, different sequences of

motion clips are applied to each specified objec t

based on the behavioral motion of its delegate.