Capturing Body Movements

You can capture simple movements of a human's body to create basic animations.

Important:
  • Animations created using this method cannot be modified afterwards.
  • You cannot control precisely the animation speed, as it depends directly on the manipulation speed after you run the command. Therefore, it is recommended to use this method for basic animations only. For more elaborate animations, consider using the Create Animation command.
Note: When defining a customized posture, or when applying a predefined posture, a transition is performed between the previous posture and the new one, adding 10 steps to the animation, for a duration of 0.33 seconds.

Before you begin: Open the Edit Human panel by clicking Edit Human from the Design section of the action bar.
Note: You can do so either before or after clicking Capture Body Movements.
See Also
Creating and Editing an Animation
Combining Postures as an Animation
  1. From the Animation section of the action bar, click Capture Body Movements .
    An animation object is created and appears in the tree, under the Animation Set node. The Capture Body Movements panel appears, with its Stop button active.

    From now on, each posture change of the human is captured, and turned into a step of the animation to simulate body movements.

  2. In the Edit Human panel, change the posture of the human as many times as required, in the order in which you want the postures played in the animation.

    You can define customized postures manually, or apply predefined postures. For more information, see Changing Postures.

  3. In the Capture Body Movements panel, click Stop.
    The animation timeline appears, providing a player for the animation.
  4. To play the animation, click the Play button in the Edit animation panel.

    Notes:
    • You can also select the animation in the tree, and in the Compass, click Play .
    • You can position the cursor at a specific location on the timeline to start the animation from that point in time.