You can easily create seated characters inAnima using theTable Toolfrom the main toolbar, which is at the left side of the 3d Viewport.
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To use it, first, select the tooland then left-clickon any surface of the background geometry to create achair object.
You can quickly adjust theorientationof the chair while youhold down the left mouse button, and it will get fixed as soon as you release it. As with any other Anima object, you can adjust the position and orientation of thechairat any moment with theselect and transformtool.
After you create and orient the first chair, a new chair will be created as soon as you click on any other part of the surface. To stop this andexitthechair creation modeyou can right-click, select anyother toolor directly press theESCkey. Using this workflow, you’ll be able to create a lot of chair objects very fast.
If you want to place characters on existing chairs in your scene, import a background model that contains this geometry. If you want to place the chairs under your characters afterward, make sure you set the correct seat height using theHeight Offsetparameter.Image Removed
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Create Seated Actors
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To add a character to a chair follow this process:
drag a model from the Actor Library to the 3d viewport and release the mouse
Move the mouse to until the actor is on top of the chair object and alink iconis displayed.Clickto link the actor to the chair.
The actor is now locked to the chair and moving or rotating the chair object will also affect the actor.
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Create Tables (
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If you create more than one chair before you exit the create mode, then aTable objectwill also be created. The table object is used to control to properties of a group of chairs, just select it and they will be shown at the Properties Panel. All the modifications on the parameters of the Table will update the common setting on all the chairs of the Table group. For example, if you’re not using a background model, you can set the chair’s seat height using theHeight Offsetvalue and all of them will be updated automatically.
