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Advanced Moton Tutorial

by Michaël Samyn

A. Basic Setup

Set up a scene

• Import an X file with an animated character “as indexed character”.
• Drag in the Simple Scene template and replace the 3D Objects with your character object.
• Rightclick on Start3DScene and set it “as start channel”.
• Opening an Animation 3D View should display your character.

Import motions

• Remove the MotionSet and replace it by an Advanced Motion Blender.
• You can find this channel in the Channel List tab next to the Templates.
• Connect an Advanced Motion Data as a child to the Advanced Motion Blender.
• Double click the Advanced Motion Data and click on the Set Reference Motion button.
• Select the X file you had already imported to get the SkinnedCharacter.
• This X file needs to have key frames on all bones that you may want to animate.
• Click the Add Motion Set from X File button.
• Choose an X file. Its name will be added to the Motion Sets list.
• You can change the name in the Motion Set name text box.
• Repeat this to import a few more motions.

Add Motions

• Select each imported motion from the Motion Sets list and click the Add Motion-Bone Set Group from selected Motion Set button.
• In the Motion-Bone Set Groups panel, select each motion and configure it.
• Check the Loop Motion-Dummy Group checkbox for animations that need to loop.
• Set the Priority value: higher numbered motions will play over lower numbered ones.

Setting up triggers

• Drag a Trigger and a UserInput into the channel group for each motion.
• Connect each UserInput channel to a Trigger channel and connect all Trigger channels to the Start3DScene channel via a Channelcaller.
• Doubleclick the UserInput channels to configure them with Keyboard keys 1, 2, 3.
• Drag in an Advanced Motion Command for each of the Triggers and connect each to a trigger.
• Make a shortcut of your Advanced Motion Blender channel for each of your Advanced Motion Command channels and connect them to the latter.
• Drag in three Value channels and connect each to an Advanced Motion Command.
• Double click each value and fill in a number
• Set the first Value to 0, the second to 1, the third to 2, etcetera.

Playing the Motions

• Switch to Run Mode.
• Press 1 to play the first motion. 2 To Play the second. Etcetera.
• Doubleclick the Advanced Motion Blender channel: you should see all available motions in the lower list and all currently playing motions in the upper list.

Stopping motions

• Set up a trigger as in point 4.
• Doubleclick the Advanced Motion Command.
• Choose “Remove instruction from list” and click OK.
• Press the key corresponding to the trigger.

Sample

Advanced Motion sample A

See Also

Advanced Motion Tutorial 2

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