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Crowd System
In
crowd animation on page 4680 , a crowd system comprises the Crowd helper
on page 4738 , one or more Delegate helpers on page 4730 , a Vector Field space
warp
on page 4837 , and Motion Flow mode on page 4464 . These are used in
combination to animate characters or other objects.
CSM Files
The CSM (character studio marker) file format stores motion-capture data. It
is an ASCII (text) file that uses positional markers rather than limb rotation
data. When you import a raw marker file, only marker position data is stored
in the motion-capture buffer. 3ds Max uses the marker data to extract limb
rotation data to position a biped.
NOTE For the CSM file specification, see the CSM.rtf document on the program
disc.
Curve View
Curve View is the area of the Animation Workbench that displays function
curves for the parts of the biped. Curve View is quite similar to the Key Window
in the Track View – Curve Editor. The same navigation and key manipulation
toolbars are used in both Curve View and the Key Window. Both Curve View
and the Key Window let you add or delete, move or scale keys selected on the
curves.
Curve View differs from the Key Window in that it also displays errors found
by the Analyzer panel, functionality which is not available in the standard
Track View. Curve View doesn't use soft-selection like the Key Window, instead
it has a specialized Show Layered Edit command for the equivalent of soft
selection on biped keys.
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