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7. Choose either Search Entire Clip or Search
Near Exist ing Transition, and click OK.
8. Click OK on the Transition Editor dialog.
9. Click Play Animation or scrub the time
slider to view the transition.
Creati ng R a ndom Mot ion
You can randomly traverse clips in a motion
flow graph to animate one or more bipeds using
controls in the Create Random M otion dialog. You
set parameters for random motion in the M otion
Flow Graph, in the clip and transition dialogs, as
well as in the Create Random Motion dialog.
Yo u c r e a t e r a n d o m m o t i o n b y f i r s t a d d i n g c l i p s t o
the Motion Flow Graph and adding transitions
between the clips. C lips and transitions are
then given percentages, which are used to create
random motion for one or more bipeds. You can
manually control the “weighting” for a possible
start clip, transitions, and frame range. This a l lows
you to animate multiple bipeds in a crowd scene
for example. A different script is created for each
biped.
Note: If you want to create random motion for
multiple bipeds, they must be sharing a motion
flow.
Procedure
To create a rand om s cript for one b iped:
1.
On the Biped rollout, select a biped and
turn on Motion Flow mode.
2. On the Motion Flow rollout, click Show
Graph
This displays the Motion Flow Graph.
3. On the Motion Flow Graph toolbar, click
Create Multiple Clips.
TheOpendialogappearswhereyoucanchoose
the location of your
.bip files.
4. After adding several clips and transitions,
click S elect Clip/Transition and select a ll the
clips.
5. On the Motion Flow Graph, click
Synthesize Motion Flow Graph and click Yes