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The st ick figures can be positioned far apart
during this process. Look for body motions in
the two clips that will transition well.
6. Click Set Start Frame in both the Ghost
areas when a good Start Frame is located.
Chara cter studio repositions the destination
clip for a best body fit between the two clips.
7. Set the transition duration in the Leng th field.
A transition duration of 10 to 2 5 frames is
normal.
8. Click OK.
9. Click Play Animation or scrub the time
slider to view the transition.
To a utomatica lly customize transitions between two
clips:
1.
On the Biped rollout, selec t a biped and
turn on Motion Flow mode .
2. Create or load a script with at least two clips.
For information on how to create a script, see
To create Motion Flow Scr ipts (page 2–1031)
3. Choose the first clip in the clip list in the Scripts
sectionontheMotionFlowrollout.
4. Click Edit Transition to display the
Transition Editor for the selected clip and the
clip following it in the list.
5. At the upper-left corner of the Tr ansition
Editor, click Next Transition in Script.
6. Click Optimize Transition.
The Transition O ptimization dialog is
displayed.
7. Choose either Search Entire Clip or Search
Near Existing 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.
Creat ing R a ndom M otion
You can randomly traverse clips in a motion
flow graph to animate one or more bipeds using
controlsintheCreateRandomMotiondialog.You
set parameters for random motion in the Motion
Flow Graph, in the clip and transition dialogs, as
well as in the Create Random Motion dialog.
You create random motion by first adding clips to
the Motion Flow Graph and adding transitions
between the clips. Clips 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
star t clip, transitions, and frame range. This a l lows
youtoanimatemultiplebipedsinacrowdscene
forexample.Adifferentscriptiscreatedforeach
biped.