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■ The Physique
®
on page 4603 modifier associates a skeleton with the
character-mesh objects, so you can control the mesh with the skeleton.
■ Crowd provides tools to create and animate crowds of animated objects,
including bipeds.
What You Should Know to Use character
studio
character studio provides you with a broad range of tools for animating
virtually any type of character. To expedite your introduction to the product,
be familiar with the following 3ds Max concepts:
■ Creation, transformation, and modification of objects
■ Selection of objects through clicking or dragging in viewports, and by
using the
Select From Scene dialog on page 228
■ Navigation in viewports and changing your viewport configuration
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