About Humans

Human actors enable you to create and manipulate real time humans in an experience.

You create human actors by inserting existing real time humans or by creating a new one from the library of human templates.

Important: The term "human" is used throughout the app and implicitly refers to a human actor. Consequently, this guide refers to the term "human actor" to avoid any confusion with the term "real time human".

This page discusses:

See Also
Creating Humans
Editing Humans

Human Animations

A human actor comes with a set of predefined human animations (walk, stand, speak, etc.).

Human animations enable you to simulate human body movements. To control a human actor when playing an experience, you must add the Human Controller behavior to your actor.

Note: You can view human animations in the Human Design app.

Human animations may interfere with the human capacities. For example, if you want to force a posture, make sure you turn off the Animate parameter of the human actor.

Behaviors

When you create a human actor, it automatically comes with the Human Motion behavior. This behavior enables you to manage human postures and animations. For example, you can activate or deactivate human animations to control the position and orientation of a human actor during a playing session.

Human Postures

You can create and edit human postures directly in Creative Experience.

Examples of human postures






To access advanced features such as the skin color or body proportions, you must use the Open command which is located next to the Asset property in the Properties panel. This command lets you open the Human Design app while remaining in the experience context. All experience actors and objects are visible but you can only edit your real time human.

Humans and Products

A human actor can contain one or more products.

You can explore the structure of the human actor and expose the products that are included. Then, you can add behaviors to the products to manipulate them in your experience.

For more information about exposing products, Expose Parts (or Subproducts) from the 3D area.

Humans and Product Connections

You can use a human actor that is connected with a product. If you modify the human posture, the connected product moves accordingly.

You can set postures or behaviors to different instances of the same human reference.