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        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0022A8"><b><a target="" href="../../corner/index.html"><font size="-1">Thinking 
          Outside the Box</font></a><font size="-1">:</font></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+3" color="#0022A8"><br>
          Adjusting Your Biped</font></p>
        <p align="RIGHT"><font color="#804000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By 
          Paul &quot;<a target="_self" href="mailto:paul@loonygames.com">Villam</a>&quot; 
          Steed</font></b></font></p>
        <p align="right">&nbsp; </p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Speaking of which, time to 
          move on to the torso and arms. Most of the same tips go for the arms 
          as the legs but a couple more to remember are:</font></p>
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          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the shoulder joint is 
            everything; spend a lot of time making sure it’s right, once again 
            envisioning the geometry attached to it</font></li>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">even though the clavicle 
            doesn’t animate, it is the parent to the entire arm; its positioning 
            in crucial to the shoulder joint</font></li>
          <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">make sure the elbow of 
            the model has enough polygons to support nice arm bending</font></li>
        </ul>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/doom10.jpg" width="208" height="400"></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Looks good. Now let’s match 
          up the neck and head…</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/doom11.jpg" width="410" height="400"></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">For what I’m doing with the 
          models, the mass of the head doesn’t really matter that much, just the 
          axis where it joins the neck. In the game, the head is guided the same 

          way the rest of the torso is, by the mouse. Its animations are played 
          back just like the rest of the body during the appropriate sequences, 
          but there’s no ‘head specific’ animations tied exclusively to it.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Finally we’re ready to mirror 
          the other limbs’ positioning. Go ahead and unhide everything…</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/doom12.jpg" width="199" height="400"></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">…dude looks pretty goofy, 
          heh.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now this is one of those 
          situations where you could go in and do the right side just like the 
          left and scale and rotate and scale and rotate your happy butt off when 
          all it really takes to get the side in order is about half dozen mouse 
          clicks. Left clicking on a biped body part will select it. Double left 
          clicking on a biped body part selects the body part and all its children. 
          Double left click on the left clavicle. Go over to the Keyframing sub-directory 
          under motion and expand it. See the white ‘page’ icon? This is the Copy 
          Posture ‘buffer’ where a selected part’s relative position can be copied. 
          Click on it. Now click on the Paste Posture Opposite button just below 
          and to the right of the aforementioned Copy Posture button. Voila. Instant 
          beef.</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/doom13.jpg" width="300" height="227"></font></p>
        <p align="center"><img src="images/doom14.jpg" width="403" height="795"></p>
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        Thinking Outside the Box is &copy; 1999 Paul Steed. All other content 
        is &copy; 1999 <a target="_self" href="http://www.loonyboi.com">loonyboi 
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