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1022 Glossary
cur ves t ypically are represented by cubic equat ions
and have a degree of 3.
Delegates
In crowd animation (page 2–1006) ,theDelegate
helper serves as an agent for the motion created by
a
Crowd object (page 2–1038) and its behaviors.
The Crowd object controls a delegate or delegates,
whose motion can then be imparted to a biped or
other object.
In viewports, the delegate object takes the
shape of a pyramid. By default, the point of the
pyramid indicates the delegate’s forward direction.
Delegates cannot be rendered.
Dependent
Describes a NURBS sub-object whose definit ion
depends on other NURBS sub-objects. For
example, a Blend Curve depends on the two curves
that you select w hen you create it.
Depot
The depot is the section of the Particle View dialog
(page 2–121)
that holds the Particle Flow act ions
(page 2–137)
. In effect, it serves as a library of
P article Flow functionality. Display of the depot
canbetoggledwiththeParticleViewmenu
command Display > Depot.
To add an action to the particle system, drag
it from the depot to the
event display (page
2–127)
.Toviewadescriptionofanactioninthe
description panel (page 3–1022) ,clickitsentryin
the depot.
Descr iption Panel
The description panel, found to the right of
the
depot (page 3–1022) in Particle View (page
2–121)
, displays a text description of any action
whosenameyouclickinthedepot.Displayofthe
depot can be toggled with the Particle View menu
command Display > Description.
Dia gonal
A diagonal is a line that connects polygon vertices
in editable poly and Edit Poly objects. Its function
is primarily to resolve the polygon into triang les
at render time, especially if the polygon becomes
non-planar via transformation of its vertices. Such
transformation and certain other operations can,
incidentally , cause automatic rearrangement of a
polygon’s diagonals.