Animation Montages

Have a look at the following figure:

Figure 12.3: The animation Preview window in the Animation Montage Persona editor

Underneath the Preview window, you have the main montage timeline, in addition to other sections; let's evaluate these sections from top to bottom:

• Montage: The Montage section is a collection of animations that can add one or more animations to. You can also right-click on any point in the timeline to create a section. Sections allow you to compartmentalize the different parts of the montage into their own self-contained section that can be referenced and manipulated in the Sections area.
• Sections: Sections, as mentioned before, allow you to set the order of how the individual animation sequences are played and whether a section should loop.

For the purposes of the throw montage, you do not need to use this feature since you will only be using one animation in this montage:

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