Tags and categories help to to organize your resources and tell the system how to match appropriate motion clips to characters.
Tagsare are used to define the attributes of actors. Examples might include age, gender, ethnicity type of dress etc.
Categoriesare are used to group and describe types of motion clips. Examples might include Chairs, Escalators etc.
When you assign apply a Motion Category to a walkway, area or other object preset all the motion clips in the category are randomly distributed among its actors. To refine this process, tags allow you to precisely supervise which characters can receive which motion clips. For example, if you tag an Actor as aTeenagerand use the same tag on a motion clip, this motion clipcannow be randomly assigned to this actor, but it couldnotbe used on an actor that has aMiddle-Agedtag.
As well as System categories and tags, there are alsoProject categoriesandtags.These are user defined properties that are specific to the project and allow you to customize and control your simulations. These are particularly powerful if you are importing your own characters and motion clips as they allow you to create effects that aren’t available with the resources that ship with Anima. For example, you could create a new category for Dancing Characters that is used on a new “Disco” Square object preset.
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To change Categories and Tags, switch to Editing mode and follow the following procedures.
Assign a Tag to an Actor or Category
To assign a tag to an Actor select theselect the Rest Pose and Actor editoreditor option. To assign a tag to Motion Clip select the thethe Global Actor and Motion Editoroption option.
Go to thethe Tags Paneland drag a label label from thethe System Tagslist list to thethe Current Tagslist list.
To remove a tag from an Actor, reverse this operation by moving it from the Current Tags list to the System Tags list.
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To create a new tag click on the Image Removedbutton Image Added button at the bottom of thethe System Tagslist list.
Give the new Tag a uniqueunique name.
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Assign a Category to a Motion Clip
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Select a Motion Clip and the Global Actor and Motion Editor option.
Go to the Categories Panel and drag a label from the System Categories list to the Current Categories list.
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Motion clips can be assigned to multiple categories.
