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12. On the Shared Motion Flows dialog in the
Parameters group, click Add.
13. On the Select dialog, choose a ll the bipeds.
Thebipedsareaddedtothelist.Ifyouaddclips
to the motion flow graph they w i ll be shared
by the bipeds.
14. Click OK to close the Shared Motion Flow
dialog.
15. In the Scripts section of the Motion Flow
rollout, click Create Random Motion.
The Create Random Motion dialog is displayed.
16. On the Create Random Motion dialog, turn
on Create Motion for all bipeds sharing this
motion flow.
Failuretodothiswillresultinthemotionflow
being added only to the selected biped.
17. Click Create.
Arandomscriptiscreatedforeachofthe
bipeds that shared the motion flow.
18. Click Play Animation or scrub the time
slider to view the transition.
To apply a shared motion flow to a different group
of bi peds :
New in char acter studio is the ability to save and
load shared motion flow setups. With this facility,
you c an create and refine a crowd simulation
using bipeds that don’t have meshes attached,
thus avoiding the computational ov erhead that
Physique requires. Once the simulation is ready,
you can save the shared motion flow setup, apply
it to a similar set of bipeds with Physique applied,
and then render the final animation with no
further crowd setup required.
For b est results, the two sets of bipeds should
havethesamenumberofmembersandbeof
comparable structure and size, and the biped
structuresshouldhavethesamerootnames.
1. Create a biped/crowd simulation using a shared
motion flow.
For details, see
Using bipeds in a crowd
simulation (page 2–1027)
.
2. On the Shared Motion Flow dialog, click Save
and save the shared motion flow in
.smf
format.
3. Set up a new scene containing the same number
of bipeds, each with a character mesh with
Physique applied. The easiest way to do this is
to set up one such character and then clone it.
Makesurethebipedshavethesamerootnames
(e.g., Bip01, Bip02) as those in the original
setup.
4. Select one of the bipeds, and on
theMotionpanel,turnonMotionFlowmode,
and then click Shared Motion Flow.
5. On the Shared Motion Flow dialog, click New,
andthenclickLoadandloadthesharedmotion
flow from step 2.