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ADOBE DIRECTOR BASICS 3D: Controlling action You cannot create new animations within <strong>Director</strong>. You can however create new motions to map an existing animation to specific bones in an animated model. However, in <strong>Director</strong> 11.5, there is no method for obtaining the names of the bones within an animated model. See Motions for more details. Motions A 3D cast member can contain a set of motions authored in your 3D-modeling application. Motions are either of the type #keyframe or #bones. A motion with a type of #none can act as an inactive placeholder. To play back a motion, use the appropriate modifier. Play list The keyframe and bones players manage a queue of motions. The first motion in the play list is the motion that is currently playing or paused. When that motion finishes playing, it is removed from the play list and the next motion begins. Motions on the playList can be blended into each other as they are playing, in which case they will play simultaneously. See “Motion blending” on page 272 for more details. Adding a motion to the playList You can use two commands to add a motion to the playList. model.motionsPlayer.queue() model.motionsPlayer.play() Both queue() and play() accept a series of parameters which allow you to determine where the motion starts playing, when it ends, whether it loops, and how quickly it plays. See the Scripting Dictionary entries for details. The following example adds two motions to the playList for the model named “Bronco”: -- Lingo syntax vModel = member("3D").model("Bronco") vModel.bonesPlayer.queue("Buck") vModel.bonesPlayer.play("Rear") The queue() command places the named motion at the end of the playList. It will start to play when all the motions already in the queue have finished playing. The play() command places the named motion at the beginning of the playList and starts to play it. The motion that was previously playing is stopped, and pushed back to the second position in the playList. In the example given above, the Buck motion was placed first in the queue, and then immediately replaced in the first position by the Rear motion. As a result, the motions play in the order Rear, then Buck. If autoblend were FALSE, the playList looks like this (edited for clarity): time 0: [[#name:"Buck", #endTime:813]] time 1: [[#name:"Rear", #endTime:446], [#name:"Buck", #endTime:813]] -- The motion Rear now plays time 447: [[#name:"Buck", #endTime:813]] -- The motion Rear is finished, so Buck can now play time 1260: [] -- The motion Buck is now also finished Motions are removed from the play list automatically when they are complete. Last updated 8/26/2011 271
ADOBE DIRECTOR BASICS 3D: Controlling action Removing a motion from the playList You can use two commands to remove a motion from the playList model.motionsPlayer.playNext() removes the motion that is currently playing, and starts playing the next motion in the playList. model.motionsPlayer.deleteLast()removes the motion that is at the end of the playList. If there is only one motion on the playList, it will stop that motion as it is playing. You can only remove motions from the beginning or the end of the playList. If you need to remove a motion from the middle, you will need to use deleteLast() multiple times until the unwanted motion has been removed. You will then have to use queue() to replace the desired motions that you deleted earlier. Motion blending If model.motionsPlayer.autoBlend is TRUE, an ending motion blends smoothly into the next motion using the model.motionsPlayer.blendTime property to determine how long the blend must be. You can control this manually by setting autoBlend to FALSE and using model.motionsPlayer.blendFactor to control the blend frame by frame. Animation properties The #keyframePlayer and #bonesPlayer modifiers share many properties and methods. model.motionPlayer.playing() indicates whether a model is executing a motion. model.motionPlayer.playlist is a linear list of property lists containing the playback parameters of the motions that are queued for a model. model.motionPlayer.currentTime indicates the local time, in milliseconds, of the currently playing or paused motion. model.motionPlayer.playRate is a number that is multiplied by the scale parameter of the play() or queue() command to determine the playback speed of the motion. model.motionPlayer.playlist.count returns the number of motions currently queued in the playlist. model.motionPlayer.currentLoopState indicates whether the motion plays once or repeats continuously. model.motionPlayer.autoBlend indicates whether the modifier creates a linear transition to the currently playing motion from the motion that preceded it. model.motionPlayer.blendTime indicates the length of the transition created by the modifier between motions when the modifier’s autoblend property is set to TRUE. model.motionPlayer.blendFactor indicates the degree of blending between motions when the modifier’s autoBlend property is set to FALSE. model.motionPlayer.positionReset indicates whether the model returns to its starting position after the end of a motion or each iteration of a loop. model.motionPlayer.rotationReset indicates the rotational element of a transition from one motion to the next, or the looping of a single motion. model.motionPlayer.rootLock indicates whether the translational component of the motion is used or ignored. model.motionPlayer.lockTranslation indicates whether the model can be displaced from the specified planes. Animation Methods model.motionPlayer.pause() halts the motion currently being executed by the model. Last updated 8/26/2011 272
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