Search Motion By Text
Search
- Enter your text in the search area.
- Press the enter key.
- Once search results are ready, they will be displayed on the left side of the app.
- Each individual search result can be viewed in detail, you can navigate within the 3D space of each result, in a similar way to what is described in the Moving the 3D Camera section.
Reviewing and Selecting Search Results
- Results will begin to be dynamically loaded, and results will populate on the screen, 4 at a time.
- Use the pagination buttons at the bottom to navigate through the pages of results.
- Click on [Add] to add the clip to the project. The clip will be added to the [Project] tab, and [Add] will change to
. - Clips with are listed in the [Project] tab. Clicking on again will delete the clip from the project.
- To return to the Home Screen, users will click the “X” in the upper right-hand corner of the Search Motion Results Window.
Importing Motion
To import motion:
- From XYN Motion Studio's Top Menu, click on [File] > [Import Motion(s)].
- Using the File browser popup, navigate and find the BVH file(s) you want to import.
- With the file(s) selected, Press [Open].
- If the import is successful, new clip(s) will be added to the [Project] tab in the Side Panel. The added files can be dragged into the 3D work area or the timeline for use.
Setting motion data tags
Confirming suggested tags
- When motion data is uploaded to the cloud, the video content will be analyzed and suggested tags will be automatically generated.
- The suggested tags can be confirmed in the screen that appears by double-clicking on a file name listed in the [Project] tab.
- Click on
to approve or the x icon to dismiss the suggested tag.
Tagging manually
- In the screen that appears by double-clicking on a file name listed in the [Project] tab, click on an area where tags are not displayed and enter the tag name.
Exporting the timeline
To export the motion data in the timeline:
- From the Top Menu, click on [File] > [Export Motion(s)].
- On the [Export Settings] dialog, click on the Directory field, to open File Explorer.
- Navigate to the folder where you would like to save the file and click on "Select Folder."
- After selecting a folder, enter a file name and click on the [Export] button in the [Export Settings] dialog.
Saving your project
To save the current state of the timeline as well as all your imported files:
- From the Top Menu, click on [File] > [Save Project] or [Save Project As].If you click on [Save Project] and the project has been saved previously, it will be overwritten with the same file name.
- In the File Explorer window that will open up, navigate to the folder where you would like to save the project.
- Enter your desired project name.
- Click on the [Save] button.
Note: when you're working on a previously saved project , you need to manually save any changes you make after saving, as Autosave is not implemented.
Opening a saved project
To load a XYN Motion Studio project and get your project timeline and imported files:
- From the Top Menu, click on [File] > [Open Project].
- In the File Explorer window that will open up, navigate to the folder where your project was saved.
- Click on the [Open] button.
- The clips, their positions, the files imported to the [Project] tab, etc., will be restored to their state at the time of saving.
Hot Keys
Avatar Indicator:
I: toggle the visibility of the indicators
Playback Hotkeys:
Space: Play/Stop
Timeline Hotkeys:
Left Arrow: step back one frame
Right Arrow: step forward one frame
Up Arrow: step forward to the end of the current clip or start of the next clip
Down Arrow: step back to the start of the current clip or end of the previous clip
Home: go to frame 0
End: go to the last playable frame
Scroll wheel: timeline zoom in/out
1: set Pose marker #1
2: set Pose marker #2
Escape: clear pose markers
Clips Hotkeys:
Delete: delete Clip
Undo/Redo:
Ctrl + Z: undo
Ctrl + Y: redo
