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The deformation spline also takes into consideration twisting and scaling of

the skeleton’s links. At the

Link sub-object level on page 4644 , you take control

of the behavior of the deformation spline, and subsequently gain full control

of the skin’s behavior relative to the skeleton’s movement.

Degree

The degree of a curve is the highest exponent in the equation used to represent

it. A linear equation is degree 1, a quadratic equation degree 2. NURBS curves

typically are represented by cubic equations and have a degree of 3.

Delegates

crowd animation on page 4680 , the Delegate helper serves as an agent for

the motion created by a

Crowd object on page 4738 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

A dependent is an object whose behavior or appearance can be influenced by

other objects. Dependents include

instances on page 7818 , references on page

7910 , and objects sharing a common modifier (the same objects that appear

green when Show Dependencies is on in the View menu). Also, an object

whose motion is

constrained on page 3212 by another’s is a dependent of the

constraining object.