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Thesharedmotionflowisloadedandapplied
to the new set of bipeds. The biped names
appear in the dialog list. If “(wrong scale)”
appears after any biped names, use the Reset
WrongScalesbuttonstocorrectthescales.
6. Click the Put Multiple Bipeds In Motion
Flow button to place all of the bipeds in the list
in Motion Flow mode, and then click OK to
exit the dialog.
7. Play the animation to ensure that it’s correct,
and then render.
Refer to
Working with Crowd Animation (page
2–1006)
for information regarding crowd
animation.
Setting Up Paths for Motion Flow
Fi l e s
OnaMotionFlowGraph,thelocationofthe
referenced
.bip
filesissavedinthe
.mfe
file.
If a
.bip
file cannot be found, the program
looks to the motion flow directory specified in
\plugcfg\biped.ini
. By default, this directory is
MoFlowDir=<maxdir>\cstudio\moflow
.
If a
.bip
file is not found in the motion flow
directory specified in the
biped.ini
file, then
3ds Max looks for the file in the same location
as the currently loaded
.max
file. If it is still not
found, the progr am appends the local path of the
referenced file to the path to the current
.max
file.
Thefileissavedbacktothesamelocationinwhich
it is found.
If a referenced
.bip
file cannot be found in its
current location, there are two ways to resolve this.
• Fr om the Reset Unfound Motion Flow Files
dialog, direct 3ds Max to the folder where the
missing
.bip
file resides.
• Find and move the missing
.bip
file to the
specified Motion Flow folder.
Note: When you find the
.bip
file, you can t urn
ontheAddDirectoryTo.INIFileoptionandthe
directory is automatically added to your
biped.ini
file. Since the
biped.ini
file accepts multiple search
paths, the new directory is added as another
MoFloDir=
line.
The program will search the directories in the
order they appear and wil l use the first instance of
the fi le that it finds. When network rendering, the
file names need to b e U NC–compatible.
Procedure
To load a Motion Flow scene f rom another system:
1.
Open a Motion Flow scene that was created on
a different system.
If referenced
.bip
files cannot be found, the
Reset Unfound Motion Flow File dialog is
displayed.