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You can change the weight by moving the node or by changing the spinner

value.

When you have mulitple weight nodes selected, and you use the spinner to

set a new value, weight node values are changed relative to their original

values. In this case, you cannot spin the spinner lower than 0 or higher than

1 on any one spin. If you have more than one weight node selected and you

type in a weight, the weights of all nodes are changed to the new value.

Weighting is evaluated across tracks in a single trackgroup. If a trackgroup has

two or more tracks, the topmost track's weight is evaluated at each frame. If

the weight at any frame is less than 1.0, the motion on the track is only

partially used, and next track down is evaluated for its weight. If the total

weight is still less than 1.0, the next track down is evaluated, and so on. In

this way, motion from multiple tracks can be mixed at the same frame for the

same set of body parts.

The Weight Mode button at the right end of the main toolbar turns on this

mode for all tracks in the Motion Mixer. For more information, see

Motion

Mixer Toolbar

on page 3775.

On a balance track, the Balance Weight Mode button appears rather than

the Weight Mode button. When in Balance Weight mode, you can adjust the

weight curve for the

balance track on page 7919. To find out how to use Balance

Weight mode, see

Adjusting Biped Balance in the Mixer on page 3737.

Reservoir

Select a biped. > Motion panel > Biped Apps rollout > Mixer > Reservoir

Graph Editors menu > Motion Mixer... > Reservoir

The Motion Mixer

Reservoir on page 8107 is similar to the Motion Flow Graph

on page 4549, in that it acts as a holding area where clips can be listed, giving

you a palette of motions to choose from. As you add

clips on page 8051 to objects

in the Motion Mixer window, you see them appear on a

track on page 8150 and

they are automatically added to the Reservoir. If you add new clips directly

to the Reservoir, they are available and held for future use.