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Tendons
When you use
Physique on page 4522 , after you adjust envelope parameters
for good mesh deformation, you can use
tendons on page 4666 to control the
amount of skin stretching across multiple links. While envelopes provide
smooth skin deformations, tendons provide additional stretching in much
the same way that actual human tendons might create pulling in the wrist
(several joints away) when the fingers are moved.
Tension, Continuity, Bias (Biped)
Tension, Continuity, and Bias (TCB) are parameters that quantify the
traditional animation technique of ease in and ease out (also known as “slow
in and slow out”). In
freeform animation on page 7792 of a biped, you can use
them to change the timing of a limb's movement from key to key.
The TCB controls are in the TCB section of the Key Info rollout on page 4288
.
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