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Procedures

To prevent keys from changing when active footsteps are edited:

1 On the Motion panel, on the Dynamics & Adaptation rollout, in the

Footstep Adapt Locks group, select the types of keys you want to lock.

2 Move, rotate, scale, or bend active footsteps.

The tracks you lock are unaffected by footstep editing.

Splicing Footsteps

You can copy the motion of a biped footstep sequence, and paste it either at

the end or into the middle of another footstep sequence. This technique is

called

splicing on page 8134.

You can use splicing to build an extended, or cyclic, motion sequence out of

shorter sequences. You can also copy footsteps from one biped and paste them

onto another biped with this technique.

Splicing footsteps makes use of a footstep buffer to store footstep positions and

keys. The buffer is a temporary area in memory where footsteps are stored.

TIP Use motion splicing when you want to edit segments of a single footstep-based

animation. To build longer animations by connecting finished BIP files, use

Motion

Flow

on page 4508 or the Motion Mixer on page 3699.