3D Animation in Director

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3D Animation in Director

• Linear Animation in Max
• Animation Hierarchies
• 3D Property Inspector in Director
• 2 Sided materials in Director
• Director Interactive Animation 3D library
  behaviours

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Animation MAX ? DIR

• Some types of animation in MAX are not retained
  by or exported in the W3D format .
• Standard Linear Animation PRS ?
• Path Constrained Animation ?
• Look At Controlled Animation ?
• Linked Look At Animation ?
• Noise Controlled Animation ?
• Animation of Modifiers ?
• Bones animation ?
• Biped animation ?

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Directors Interface

• Stage Viewing area for your movie
• Cast Lib Stores all your movie assets
• Score Linear view of you movie
• Property Inspector Displays info on sprites and
  castmembers
• Behaviour Lib Drag and drop behaviours for
  numerous functions
• 3DPI - Displays info on 3D castmembers

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Directors 3DPI

• Displays detailed information about W3D
  CastMembers.
• Models PRS
• Textures Bitmaps
• Animation
• Lights
• Cameras

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3D Behaviours

• There are 2 types of 3D behaviour
• Actions Define how models and the scene behave
• Triggers Define when the above behaviours occur
• These can be dragged and dropped onto 3D sprites.
• Parameters can be entered as to the specifics of
  the behaviour.

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Recommended

• For the Director and Flash elements of Assignment
  2 (and 3 for FIM101)