Exercise 7.6. A Refreshing Swim
In this exercise, we’ll use a freeform period between footsteps to make a biped swim.
1. | Load the file Dive.max from the CD and play the animation.
This file contains a footstep animation at a swimming pool. The camera follows the biped as it runs for the pool, then leaps to jump in. After a few moments, the biped ascends the steps at the end of the pool.
Because the entire animation is a footstep animation, gravity is in effect, and the biped jumps very high into the air during the period when it should be swimming. In order to make the biped jump into the pool and swim to the steps, you’ll make this period a ... |
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