3ds Max Animation with Biped

Working with Trackgroups

You can also use the Motion Mixer to take the upper body movement from one BIP file and the lower body movement from another. This is accomplished with the use of trackgroups.

A trackgroup is a group of tracks that affect one set of body parts. For example, you could have one set of tracks that affect the arms, another for the legs, and yet another for the head. The tracks in a trackgroup can be layer tracks, transition tracks, or a combination of the two.

Note

The Biped layers you used in Chapter 8, “Body Animation,” were a first stab at the kind of functionality achieved through trackgroups. With basic Biped layers, you can only add a layer to the existing motion, but not actually load files into that layer—you have ...