Previewing animations and characters for Sandbox

The character editor is a very powerful tool and is one of the numerous subsystems within sandbox. We have already used some of its basic features, and now it's time to explore a few of the advanced features and their uses as they relate to animated characters.

Getting ready

Open Sandbox and also the character editor. Then open the SDK sample character Objects/Characters/neutral_male/sdk_character_male_v2.cdf.

How to do it...

As we saw in the previous chapter, you can easily play animations on characters through the character editor:

1. To play an animation for a currently loaded model, simply browse to the animation name and click it and the character will immediately start the animation.

2. For this example, start the animation _Relaxed_Run under the _Relaxed folder.

   

3. You will notice the LMG icon located beside the animation name. These will be discussed later. It is, however, important to know that LMGs are sets of animations which are procedurally...