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1070 Chapter 14: character studio

Note:

Calibration con trols 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 import 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 loading a marker

file, use Adjust Talent Pose to correct the biped

position relative to the m arkers. Align the biped

limbs to the 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 import a marker file for the first time.

Sa ve Talent Pos e Adj us tment—Saves a Talent

Pose adjustment as a C AL file.

Save a CAL file after adjusting the biped relative

to the markers. A CAL file is used for processing

marker fi les that require the same adjustment. A

CAL file can be loaded in the Motion Capture

Conversion Parameters dialog during marker file

importation.

Load M ark er Name File—Loads a Marker

Name (MNM) file to map incoming marker

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

the char acter s tudio marker naming convention.

DisplaystheMarkerNameFiledialog.

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

for use with a CSM file.

Load a BV H mark er f ile—Browses for a marker file

for use with a B VH file.

When a BVH file is loaded, checks for and reports

unknowntracknames,butloadsthefileanyway.

Reports if an y required tracks were not in the file

and if so aborts the file load

Use—Uses the marker name file when importing

motion capture files

If necessary, load a Marker Name File b efore

loading a BVH or CSM file. Marker Name fi les are

bundled with Char acter 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.r t f documents on the program

disc.

Show Ma rk ers—Opens the Marker Display

dialog (page 2–1075), with settings for specifying

how mark ers are displa yed.

Marker and marker names are displayed around

the biped. You can use these to spot and adjust

discrepancies; for example, the biped elbow

position relative to the elbow marker. For

information on how to correct these discrepancies,

see Ta lent Fig u re m o de and Adjust Talent Pose.