To display: Select a character and choose Actor > Generate from the Behavior Export toolbar.
For more information, see Generating a Behavior-Ready Actor
[ Character Animation ].
Generate Options
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Envelope |
Includes the character’s envelope for the actor in Behavior. Deselect this option if you don’t want the envelope to be exported with the actor. |
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Optimize |
Removes obvious unnecessary nodes in the actor. For Behavior, the necessary nodes in an actor are the ones that animate and drive envelopes. |
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Remove Polygon |
Removes any extra polygon geometry that is not part of the character’s envelope (such as a hat or walking cane) and replaces it with nulls on the actor. |
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Skills |
Transfers any skills from the character to the generated actor. Skills are action sources that have been converted with Action > Make Skill command. |
Box Options
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Box |
Replace the character’s existing envelope nodes with bounding boxes that approximate the shape of the envelope vertices they drive. The COG and Factor options are available when Box is selected. |
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COG |
Specifies whether the COG node on the generated actor should get a bounding box. This option is available only if the Box option is selected. By default, this option is off because the COG is sometimes on the floor, and adding a bounding box for the COG may add a large piece of geometry that doesn’t reflect the true shape of the actor. |
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Factor |
The factor of the nominal link length that will be the maximum box width for each node. This option is available only if the Box option is selected. Link lengths are measured as the distance between the node’s origin and the origin of its child. |
Click OK to generate the Behavior-ready actor. This may take a few minutes.
If the Softimage character has embedded fcurves, a message appears asking you if these fcurves can be removed if they aren’t important. If you want to keep the fcurves, you must click Cancel and save the fcurves in an action source. If you click OK, the Generate command overwrites the current fcurves.
Autodesk Softimage v.7.5