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5 Click the Parameters group > Load .mfe button, and use the Open dialog
to load a motion flow file. Typically, this would be the one you saved
earlier in the procedure.
Next, specify the bipeds that will share this motion flow.
6 In the Parameters group, click the Add button, and use the Select dialog
to specify the bipeds that will share the motion flow.
For your convenience, the Select dialog shows only center of mass objects
for the bipeds in the scene.
After you click the Select button, the bipeds appear in the dialog, in the
list under "Bipeds Sharing this Motion Flow."
7 To correctly share a motion flow, bipeds' legs must be scaled the same.
If any of the bipeds are scaled differently than the one you started with,
an alert appears, and then, when you click the OK button in the alert
box, the wrong-scale bipeds are noted as such in the list. At this point,
you can select one of the bipeds in the list, and then click the Set Shared
Motion Flow Scale button to match the others' scale to that biped. Or
you can click one of the Reset Wrong Scales buttons to rescale the
wrong-scale bipeds or just their legs. Be sure to take one of these measures
before proceeding.
One more step in the Shared Motion Flow dialog is necessary: You must
activate Motion Flow mode for all the bipeds sharing the motion flow.
A special button in the dialog lets you perform that action in one step.
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Click the Put Multiple Bipeds in Motion Flow button.
This activates Motion Flow mode for all the bipeds sharing the motion
flow.
9 Click the OK button to exit the dialog.
To offset the delegates and test the simulation:
Delegate-controlled bipeds can begin their animation with their motion flow
scripts' first clip, if it exists, or with a random motion clip. But when you load
a motion flow file into the Shared Motion Flow dialog, any scripts in the file
are ignored. Thus, delegate-associated bipeds using motion flow in an unsolved
crowd simulation have no existing scripts, and you must specify that they use
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