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624 Chapter 12: Animation
• Biped/Trackgroup/Track Controls (page
2–624)
• Interactive Clip Controls (page 2–624)
• Weighting Controls (p age 2–625)
Biped/Trackgroup/Track Controls
The left-most section of the editor is the
Biped/Trackgroup/Track Controls section. The
Biped/Trackgroup/Track Controls set the number ,
order, display, and characteristics of those features
inthemix. Bipedsandtrackgroupscanbe
selected, added, removed and repositioned.
The “-” and “+” buttons collapse and expand the
display of bipeds and trackgroups. The “m” button
mut es a track, taking its influence out of the mix.
The “s” button sets a track to solo mode, making it
theonlyactivetrackinthemix.
Interactive Clip Controls
The center section of the editor, Interactive Clip
Controls, lets you manipulate the scale, time,
timing, and trimming of clips and transitions.
The overall length of all clips and transitions in
a track can be stretched or squeezed by dragg ing
the white ends of the gray range bars along the
top of each trackgroup. Drag from the middle
of the range bar if the entire mix of a trackgroup
needs to be moved. Likew ise, clips can be moved
bydraggingfromthemiddleofaclip.Clipsand
transitions can be shortened or lengthened by
dragging either end.
The range bar for each biped can also be moved or
scaled to move or sca le the entire mix for the biped.
Transition brackets appear in Transition t r acks.
Where a transition exists, the brackets indicate
the start and end point of the transition. If there
is no transition at the end of the clip, the bracket
indicates where the transition will be placed when
a new clip is loaded into the track.
Thecurrenttimeinthescenecanbechangedby
dragging the vertical, purple timeline, a change
which is reflected on the 3ds Max t ime slider.