Managing Body Animation

After importing body animation assets in the .rlMotion tab, you can control animation tag, speed, masking, and blend settings for two subsets: Asset and Preview.

Asset Management

  1. ClosedAnimation Tag
    For assigning a tag to each animation in order to determine the playback behavior of the animation.
    • Idle: Looping animation that plays continuously until another animation is triggered.
    • Perform: One-time animation that plays fully once and then returns to the last executed idle animation.
  2. ClosedFile Info
    • File Name: Displays the original filename of the imported animation.
    • Animation Duration: Displays the total animation length in seconds.
  3. ClosedAnimation Speed
    Controls the playback speed of the animation with a float value of up to two decimal place accuracy. The value is 1 by default for normal speed. If the value is set to 2.0, the animation plays at 2x speed. If the value is set to 0.5, the animation slows down by half.
  4. ClosedAnimation Mask
    There are two types of masking behaviors for body animation.
    • Keep Head Clip Motion
      • Enabled: Uses the animation's own head movements.
      • Disable: Applies the head behavior from the last executed Auto Profile.
    • Disable Look-At During Performing
      • Enabled: The eyes follow the animation's own behavior during playback. If the animation lacks eye movement data, it will apply the last executed Auto Profile settings.
      • Disabled: The eyes remain locked onto the last targeted camera during playback.

Preview

  1. ClosedCategorized Animations by Tag
    Organizes animations based on assigned tags. The left list shows animations categorized to the Idle Tag; the right list shows animations categorized to the Perform Tag.
  2. ClosedAnimation Preview
    Click on an animation in the tag list to preview it under the Preview mode (from the main panel).
  3. ClosedRefresh Asset List
    Click on this button to update the list of animation assets.
  4. ClosedDead Blending
    Dead Blending is a real-time animation transition tool that automatically calculates smooth blending. You can adjust its results with the following settings.
    • Blend Duration: Sets the total duration (in seconds) for blending in and out of the animation.
    • Blend Halflife: Higher values result in a transition curve that starts out gradually, then steepens. Lower values result in a transition curve that starts out steep, then smooth out.