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Creating and Using Motion Flow Scripts

The Motion Flow Graph stores .bip files, referred to as clips. To create a script,

you select clips that you have added to the Motion Flow Graph.

Set up the lesson:

1 Continue from the previous lesson or open the file

cs4_tut_moflow01.max. This scene is in the folder

\animation\character_animation\motion_flow\.

2 If you are using cs4_tut_moflow01.max, select any part of the

biped and open the Motion panel.

3 Click Show Graph to make sure that the Motion Flow Graph is

displayed.

Create a script:

1 On the Motion Flow rollout, in the Scripts group, click Define

Script.

2 On the Motion Flow Graph, click the AxeKick icon first, and then the

BackKick icon.

The clip names appear in the list in the Scripts group. The name script1

displays in the text field above the list. In the Motion Flow Graph, a red

transition line joins the two clips, showing that they are included in the

current script. By default, Biped uses “Minimum Motion Loss” to find a

likely starting frame for the transition between the source and destination

clips. You have created a script called script1.

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