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Motion is a native file format (*mtn) of Marvelous Designer that saves Avatar movement information, and is used when recording Animation of Garments and Avatars. Marvelous Designer provides Motion files for its default male and female Avatars, but Animation Data or Motion capture Data from third-party 3D solutions can be imported as COLLADA files, then extracted as a Motion file (*mtn) through this menu.
Location
Open Motion
Main Menu ▶ File ▶ Open ▶ Joint Motion
Save Motion
Main Menu ▶ File ▶ Save As ▶ Joint Motion
Operation
Open Motion
- Follow the indicated guideline below:
Main Menu ▶ File ▶ Open ▶ Joint Motion
→ The Open File window appears.
- Navigate to the desired *mtn file, then click Open.
→ The Load Motion Type window appears.
- Select from the available settings:
| Joint Information | Joint Rotation & Translation | Applies the Avatar's Height, Pose, Motion Data (Joint rotation,) and Joint positions |
| Joint Rotation Only | Applies the Pose Motion Data (Joint rotation) only, while maintaining the Avatar's Size. | |
| Garment Position | Move Avatar & Garment to Start Position |
Moves the Avatar and Garment to the location of the first frame (ver 2.5.0). |
| Transition Animation | A transition Animation is an Animation that changes from a T-Pose to a motion's first Pose in stages, and is created when the Avatar's current Pose and Motion differs from that of the first frame Pose. |
→ The motion (*mtn) file loads according to the settings.
Save Motion
- Follow the indicated guideline below:
Main Menu ▶ File ▶ Save As ▶ Joint Motion
→ The Save File window appears.
- Type in file name and designate the path the file will be saved to.
→ The Motion (*mtn) file will be saved to the designated path.
※ Note:
- Motion files can only be saved when imported as Avatars in COLLADA format with Motion Data, and the COLLADA files must be in Open COLLADA format.
- To learn more about COLLADA format, please reference 3D File (COLLADA) Import.
- The Transition Animation for default avatars of version10 is not compatible with the previous versions.
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