INDEX

A

adding a bone 2-7, 2-8

Align/Rotate Axis 2-12

Animate Multiple Poses operation 3-5

Animate Pose operation 3-6

Animate Pose to Pose

operation 3-7

with motion capture data 3-10

Append 2-8

assigning hard and soft parts 2-36

Attached Objects 1-2

attached objects

making default 2-56

modifying 2-58

selecting 2-74

attaching objects 2-14

attaching skins to skeletons 2-77

attaching wires as bones 2-8

axes of rotation

mirroring 2-13

with imported skeletons 2-13

Axis Move 2-15

Axis Scale 2-15

B

Base 1-2

Bone 1-2

bone axes

display 2-19

fixed vs. rotating 2-20

bone frame

display 2-19

bones

adding 2-7

by attaching wire 2-8

by encoding 2-7

Align/Rotate Axes 2-12

aligning axes to inferior bone 2-13

aligning axes to superior bone 2-13

assigning hard & soft parts 2-36

calculating soft influence 2-83

Collapse 2-22

Cut 2-24

arbitrarily 2-26

in half 2-25

in thirds 2-25

describing attributes of 2-27

detaching an object 2-14

displaying hard and soft parts 2-38

flipping orientation 2-33

Lock Bone 2-55

locking 2-56

Rename 2-69

Rotate/Twist 2-22

rotating (translated) 2-70

rotating along bone axis 2-14

rotating around local axes 2-70

Scale Axis 2-74

Scale Bone 2-74

selecting bone at top of limb 2-85

selecting inferior 2-84

selecting joint at head 2-76

selecting joint at tail 2-76

selecting superior 2-84

setting DOF limits 2-30

skin displacements

deleting 2-81

editing 2-79

linking 2-80

renaming 2-81

Skin Update 2-82

Soft Influence 2-83

toggling bone axis display 2-19

toggling bone frame display 2-19

Traverse 2-84

twisting around bone direction axis 2-70

unlocking 2-56

XYZ Rotate 2-87

C

collapsing a bone 2-22

Copy 2-23

Copy Joint 2-24

copying a limb 2-8

cutting a bone 2-24, 2-25, 2-26

D

detaching an object from a bone 2-14

detaching skins from skeletons 2-78

Disconnect Limb 2-28

DOF Editor 1-3

DOF editor 2-30

DOF Limits 1-2

Dummy Bones 1-3

F

fixed vs. rotating axes 2-20

Flip 2-33

Free Scale 2-34

H

Hard Part 1-5

Hard/Soft 2-35

highlighting 2-5

I

IK move 2-39

IK Move along Trajectory operation 3-11

IK Move along Wire operation 3-12

IK Move Root 2-41

IK Move Single 2-45

IK Move thru Root 2-46

IK Move to Object operation 3-15

IK Move to Part operation 3-17

IK Rotate Root 2-48

IK Set 1-3

IK Sets 2-51

IK sets

creating 2-52

deleting 2-53

editing 2-51

renaming 2-53

selecting 2-54

Inferior 1-9

Inverse Kinematics 1-5

J

Joint 1-5

Joint Identification 2-54

joints

Add 2-7, 2-8

Bone

selecting inferior bone 2-18

selecting superior bone 2-18

copying properties between 2-24

IK Move 2-39

selecting IK set for 2-40

using current IK set 2-39

using relax method 2-39

IK Move 2D 2-40

in a fixed plane 2-41

in a rotating plane 2-40

IK Set

creating 2-52

deleting 2-53

editing 2-51

renaming 2-53

selecting 2-54

Joint Identification 2-54

selecting 2-76

L

Lengthen Bone operation 3-19

Local Axes 1-5

Lock Feet operation 3-20

locking bones 2-56

M

Make Attached Objects 2-56

Make Wire from Node Motion operation 3-21

motion capture

using with different skeletons 2-60

Motion Capture Data 1-6

Motion Transform 2-60

Move 2-60

O

objects

attaching 2-14

P

parts

hard and soft 2-35

Pose 1-7

poses 2-66

making values dynamic 3-8

moving to 2-67

saving 2-67

Q

Quaternion Rotate Bone operation 3-22

Quaternion Rotate Root operation 3-24

R

Read Acclaim Data operation 3-26

Read Biovision Data operation 3-27

Read Motion Analysis Data operation 3-28

relax method IK 2-39

Root 1-7

Rotate 2-70

Rotate Root operation 3-29

Rotate/Twist 2-70

S

saving

attached objects 2-5

skeletons 2-4

skins 2-4

saving poses 2-67

Scale Axis 2-74

Scale Bone operation 3-31

scaling a skeleton 2-73

scripts

linear vs. hierarchical 3-3

operation order 3-2

Select Attachments 2-74

Select Joint 2-76

Select Skins 2-76

selecting 2-5

selecting a bone's inferior 2-84

selecting a bone's superior 2-84

selecting bone at top of limb 2-85

selecting joint at head of bone 2-76

selecting joint at tail of bone 2-76

Skeleton 1-8

skeleton

connecting to another 2-8

creating a primitive 2-3

creating custom 2-3

skeletons

attaching skin 2-77

Base 2-15

base state

deleting 2-17

renaming 2-17

selecting 2-18

Check Skin 2-20

clearing skin parts 2-59

copying 2-23

Describe 2-27

detaching skin 2-78

Display Bone 2-18

DOF Editor 2-30

initializing to base 2-16

loading 2-5

Make Skin Parts 2-58

making skin parts

default 2-59

default hard 2-59

moving 2-60

moving to a pose 2-67

Pose 2-66

poses

deleting 2-68

renaming 2-68

Position 2-69

saving a base state 2-16

saving a pose 2-67

Scale 2-73

scaling around midpoint 2-73

scaling around selected element 2-73

scaling around vertex 2-73

Select Elements 2-75

selecting bones in 2-76

selecting points on 2-75

Skin 2-77

Skin Displacement 2-79

xyz scaling around arbitrary vertex 2-35

xyz scaling around midpoint 2-34

xyz scaling around selected location 2-35

Skin 1-8

Skin Displacements 1-8

skin displacements 2-79

deleting 2-81

editing 2-79

linking 2-80

renaming 2-81

Skin Parts 1-9

skin update mode 2-82

skins

selecting 2-76

Soft Influence 1-9

soft influence 2-83

Soft Parts 1-9

Superior 1-9

T

Transform Root operation 3-33

Translate Root operation 3-35

U

unlocking bones 2-56

Update Skeleton operation 3-36

Update Skins operation 3-38

W

Write Acclaim Data operation 3-39

X

X Rotate Bone operation 3-40

XYZ IK Rotate Root 2-85

XYZ Rotate Bone operation 3-40

Y

Y Rotate Bone operation 3-40

Z

Z Rotate Bone operation 3-40

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