merge biped animation??

[Marquis]

Funny, Max SHIPS with an excellent extra tutorial that covers this topic in detail and others as well.

[Marquis]

Excuse me, not biped specifically, but merging animations.

[alpotnis]

yes i have gone through the reference/ tutorial for CS....but i didnt find anything that explains the merging of the biped animations.

[Dave Black]

Sure, look up motion flow. It's great. It may take a little getting used to, but it's the best motion merging I've ever seen. It's a little button up at the top of the CS rollout...Don't have it in front of me, but It's in the documention. Motion Flow. Check it out. You can pick a set of .bip files, and then play with how the biped will interpolate between them. Cools stuff.

-3DZ

:D

[alpotnis]

Thanks buddy...... will have to spend some time on it, looks a lil confusing and difficult to understand.

Thanks for the help guys!!

- alpotnis

[Dave Black]

Try this. There is a button in the upper left of the motion flow dialog box. This button adds new animations. Make like 2 or 3, and then you link them together in whatever order you want. The animation then needs to have a motion flow script set for it(which should happen automatically when you link them. The animation should playback as you do this.

You can then go into the different events as they transpire, or shift from on to the next. It's not too bad once you get the hang of it. To me, this function alone is where CS derfives it's power. Biped's IK is good too, but MoFlow as we have come to call it, rocks your butt...trust me. You can have a guy go from say, slipping on a banana, to, I don't know, a ballet move, without ANY manual changes to the keyframes...Really quite awsome.

Keep at it,

-3DZ

:D

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