3ds Max Animation with Biped

Exercise 6.1. Footstep Placement Practice

In this exercise, you’ll choreograph a very simple dance and then work out the footstep placement for it using just pencil, paper, and your own two feet.

1.	Get out of your chair and stand up. Choreograph a simple, short dance of your own making, with eight or fewer steps, and perform the steps yourself.
2.	Repeat the dance a few times until you’re sure of how it goes.
3.	Get a pencil (best for erasing as needed) and some paper with no lines.
4.	On the paper, draw the dance footsteps in sequence. On each footstep, write the footstep number, with L for left or R for right. Remember that the biped always starts out by standing on footsteps 0 and 1.
5.	Reset 3ds Max. Create a biped of any size.
6.	On ...