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Motion Mixer Menus 609
Clips in Transition tracks will automatically spawn
transitions when they overlap.
Delete A ll Clips—Clears the selected trackgroups of
all clips and transitions.
Delete—Clears the selected trackg roups from the
Motion Mixer .
Tracks menu
The commands in the Tracks menu are only ac t ive
when you have a track, or tracks, selected in the
Mixer. These menu command s are als o available
when you right-click a track in the Mixer window.
Add La yer Track Above—Adds a new Layer track
above the currently s elected tracks.
Add Lay er Track B elow—Adds a new Layer track
below the cur rently selected tracks.
Add Transition Track Above—Adds a new Transition
track above the currently selected tracks.
Add Transition Track Below—Adds a new Transition
track below the cur rently selected tracks.
Conver t to La yer Tra ck —Converts the selected
Transition tracks to Layer tracks.
Convert to Transition Track —Converts the selected
Layer tracks to Transition tracks.
Optimize All Transitions—All transitions on the
track are optimized.
New Clips > From Files—Opens a dialog where you
can choose one or more BIP or XAF files to add to
the selected track. If a selected BIP file has been
saved for this release of 3ds Max , a thumbnail is
displayed in the Motion Preview where you can
movethesliderandgetanideaofwhatthemotion
looks like.
Any clip you add to a track using this method is
automatically added to the
Reservoir (page 2–626) .
Note: If you choose a BIP file that is older, you
will receive a warning that the file is obsolete and
should be resaved. Until the BIP fi le is resaved, it
will not display in the Motion Preview.
New Clips > From Reser voir—Opens a Reservoir
FilesdialogwhereyoucanchooseoneormoreBIP
or XAF files listed in the Reservoir.
Import Motion Flow—Allows you to import clips
and transitions from a motion flow script to the
selected track. You can import a script only if it
is active on the currently selected biped, and if it
has been loaded or saved as part of an
MFE file
(page 3–1066)
. If scr ipts are available for impor t,
the Motion Flow Scripts dialog displays a list of
available scripts. The imported script replaces
the currently selected track with a
transition
track (page 3–1121)
containing all the clips and
transitions in the script.
Note: This dialog is only available for biped
object mixes.
Note: If the selected t rack contains clips and
transitions w hen you choose this option, these
clips are removed from the track when the motion
flow script is imported.
Delete All Clips—Deletes all the clips residing on
the selec ted track.
Delete—Deletes a selected track or tracks.
Clips menu
The Clips menu is active when a clip is selected
or when you r ight-click a clip in the Mixer. Some
menu commands are not available when multiple
clips are selected.
Add T ime Warp—Applies the ability to be time
warped to the selected clips. A ti me warp allows
you to a lter clip speeds. It gives you the abilit y to
stretch or s queeze time for parts of selected clips.
For more details and procedures, see
Adding Time
Warps (page 2–597)
.