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Motion Capture Rollout 921

Ideally, you wil l not need to use this feature. When

loading a motion-capture file, 3ds Max attempts to

extract the appropriate fig ure scale from the given

data. Use Ta lent Figure mode only if the extracted

scale of the biped doesn’t match the scale of the

original talent. Even minor differences in scale wil l

alter the motion.

Note: Calibration controls are enabled only when a

marker or BVH file is imported in its raw form. Do

not use key reduction or extract footsteps when

you i mport a marker file for the first time.

Save Talent Figure Structure—After changing

thebipedscaleinTalentFiguremode,youcan

storethechangesintoaFIGfile.Usethisfileinthe

Motion Capture Conversion Parameters dialog to

adjustmarkerfilescreatedbythesameactor.

Adjust Talent Pose—After loadi ng a marker

file, use Adjust Talent Pose to correct t he biped

position relative to the markers. Align the biped

limbs to t he m arkers, then click Adjust Talent Pose

to compute this offset for all the loaded marker

data.

Note: Calibration controls are enabled only when a

marker or BVH file is imported in its raw form. Do

not use key reduction or extract footsteps when

you i mport a marker file for the first time.

Sa ve Talent Pose Adj us tment—Saves a Talent

Pose adjustment as a CAL file.

Save a CAL file after adjusting the biped relative

to the markers. A CAL fi le is used for processing

marker files that require the same adjustment. A

CAL file can be loaded in the Motion C apture

Conversion Parameters dialog during marker file

importation.

Load Mar k er Name File—Loads a Marker

Name (MNM) file to map incoming marker

names in motion-capture files (BVH or CSM) to

the character studio marker naming convention.

Displays the Marker Name File dialog.

Load a CSM mark er file—Browses for a marker file

for use with a CSM file.

Load a B V H mark er file—Browses for a marker file

for use with a BVH file.

When a BVH file is loaded, checks for and reports

unknowntracknames,butloadsthefileanyway.

Reports if any required tracks were not in the file

and if so aborts the file load

Use—Uses the marker name file when importing

motion capture fi les

If necessary, load a Marker Name File before

loading a BV H or CSM file. Marker Name files are

bundled with Character Studio to map marker

names in popular third-party marker files. Edit

these ASCII files if the marker files you have use

unique names for markers.

Note: For BVH and CSM file specifications, see the

BVH.rtf

and

CSM.rtf

documents on the program

disc.

Show Mark er s—Opens the

Marker Display

dialog (p age 2–927)

, with settings for specifying

how markers are displayed.

Marker and marker names are displayed around

the biped. You can use these to spot and adjust

discrepancies; for example, the biped elb ow

position relative to the elbow marker. For

information on how to correct these discrepancies,

see

Talent Figu re mode

and

Adjust Ta lent Pose