You can set a node’s visibility so that it is visible in the Behavior viewer while you’re either authoring a simulation or playing back a simulation. This helps you keep the memory usage in Behavior to a minimum, especially if you have a large number of actors in a simulation. For example, you may just want to view how the feet are walking across a terrain in the simulation, but you don’t need to see the rest of the actor.
You can either choose commands from the Node menu to set the node’s visibility options or select parameters in each node’s RTKNode custom parameter set (available in the explorer).
To set the node as being visible only while playing back simulations
1. Make sure that the character is initialized (see Initializing the Character).
2. Select the character’s node you want visible in the Behavior viewer only while playing back simulations.
3. Do either of the following:
- Choose Node > Set Visual Only from the Behavior toolbar.
or
- Select the Visualization Only parameter in the node’s RTKNode custom parameter set.
This sets the node to be visible only while playing back simulations, but not while authoring them.
To set the node as being visible only while authoring simulations
1. Make sure that the character is initialized (see Initializing the Character).
2. Select the character’s node you want visible in the Behavior viewer only while authoring simulations.
3. Do either of the following:
- Choose Node > Set Collision Only from the Behavior toolbar.
or
- Select the Collision Only parameter in the node’s RTKNode custom parameter set.
This sets the node to be visible only while authoring simulations, but not during the playback of the simulation.
To set the node’s visibility back to default
1. Select the character’s node whose visibility you want to return to the default mode, which is having the node visible while both authoring and playing back simulations.
2. Do either of the following:
- Choose Node > Set Default from the Behavior toolbar.
or
- Deselect the Visualization Only or Collision Only parameters in the node’s RTKNode custom parameter set.
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