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Copy/Paste Rollout 967
Freeform Animation” found i n the tutorial entitled
Animating with Freeform.
Tip: When copying poses or postures containing
COM data, the Paste Options (page 2–973) are
activat ed.
Pas te a nd Pa ste O pposi te
For each mo de, there are two paste options: Paste,
and Paste Opposite. T hese are useful i n d ifferent
situations:
•
Pas te—InthePostureandPosemodes,Paste
is useful for copying positioning from one
biped to a different biped, or for restoring a
biped’s positioning at a different frame of an
animation. In Track mode, Paste is useful
mainly for copying movement from one biped
to a different biped.
•
Paste Opposite—In Posture mode, Paste
Opposite is useful for making one limb assume
the posture of the other, either at the same
frame or different frames. In Pose mode, Paste
Opposite reverses the biped’s pose, or applies
that reverse pose to a different biped. In Track
mode, Paste Opposite can make a biped’s limbs
move symmetr ically, or apply the opposite of
the copied movement to a different biped.
Tip: Afterpastingaposeortrackstoadifferent
biped, often you have to reposition it. This is easily
done with Move All mode.
Note: If a copied pose, posture or track contains
sub-animations, they can be pasted to another
pose, posture or track as long as the same
sub-animations already exist. Otherwise, they are
ignored.
Pr ocedur es
Example: To load multiple collections between files
wit hi n a si n gl e s es s i on :
1. Create a bipe
dandloadsomeanimation
onto it.
2.
OntheCopy/Pasterollout,clickCreate
Collection and rename it Upper.
3. Select all of the biped’s links f rom the
spine up and, after making sure you’re in
Posture mode (page 2–972),clickCopyPosture.
Repeat this step for every 10 frames of your
animation.
4. Create a new collection and rename it
Lower.
5.
Gotoframe0. Selectallofthebiped’s
links from the pelvis dow n and copy a posture
at every 10 frames.
6.
Choose the Upper collection from the
Copy Collections drop-down list.and save it.
Then, select the L ower collection and save it
as well.