2009

Master Motion Clip

Master Motion Clips are controllers that contain motion clips, or individual

clips of animation. These motion clips are sequenced to create animation, and

overlap slightly with automatic blending to smooth the transitions between

clips.

Procedures

To use Motion Synthesis with non-bipedal creatures:

All of the work involved in copying and synthesizing clips takes place using

controls in the

Synthesis dialog on page 4925. This dialog has three tabs: Motion

Clips, State, and Synthesis.

This procedure assumes that the global object is static and has animation that

loops. For creatures with many legs, you can animate lateral motion on the

global object and then strip out the lateral motion with the Synthesis dialog.

This latter approach serves to minimize foot sliding in a multi-legged creature.

1 Animate an object.

Create animation in one position, like a bird's beating wings. Create a

variety of animation like a gliding motion (wings still), wings beating

slowly, and so on. To animate the object, apply modifiers and animate

their parameters.

This will be the Global object, from which animation clips will be derived.

2 Using the Create panel > Helpers > Object Type rollout, add a Crowd

object and a Delegate object.

Create the objects in the Top or Perspective viewport.

3 Use

Scatter Objects on page 4823 in Crowd function to clone the delegate

and optionally distribute the clones (you can also distribute them

manually).

Make sure you end up with an equal number of delegates and animated

object clones.

Next, associate and link the objects to the delegates.

On the Setup rollout, click the Object/Delegate Associations button.

The

Object/Delegate Associations dialog on page 4836 appears.

5 Add the objects and delegates into their respective columns.

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