Baking (plotting) and clearing locked and muted properties

 
 
 

Now that you can lock and mute properties, you can also Bake (plot) these properties. When doing this, you can choose to clear the locked properties after the baking process automatically. Unlike locked properties, muted properties are Baked (plotted), cleared, and unmuted by default.

Locked properties and channels are not Baked (plotted) nor cleared by default. When you choose to bake (plot) Skeleton, Control Rig, Body Part properties, you can enable Plot Locked Properties. The Plot Locked Properties option is disabled by default however, after enabling the Plot Locked Properties once, MotionBuilder retains this change the next time you choose to Bake/plot.

Depending on the selection, the Plot options and dialogues are available via the Character Controls menu, the Key Controls Animation menu, the Character Settings in the Navigator window, and the Story window.

The Plot Locked Properties option is available in the following Plot dialogues.

Plot All Properties dialog

Plot Selected Properties dialog

Character dialog

Facial dialog

You also have the option to clear the animation on locked properties.

Clear Animation on all objects

Clear Animation on selected objects

Clear Animation on selected properties

Creative Commons License Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License