Features

Real-Time Display and Animation Tools

Using tools designed to maximize speed and efficiency, you'll get instant playback of character performances, alleviating the need to preview or render your work. The real-time OpenGL® API display and hardware shader support result in high-quality viewport display. The interactive camera control is available via keyboard, joypad, motion capture system, or other custom input device.

Revolutionary HumanIK Character Technology

With its powerful, full body FK/IK manipulation rig, Autodesk MotionBuilder provides outstanding automated character setup. Quickly create powerful manipulation rigs, independent of your character's size or proportions, and customize the look and feel with ease, without the need for scripting or constraint setups. You can also repurpose animation data from one character to another with real-time motion retargeting.

Unified Nonlinear Editing Environment

The Story tool is the only non-linear environment to combine multiple media types into a timeline editor, and it's built from the ground up on the MotionBuilder real-time architecture. Story can be used for pre-visualization and layout; you can easily blend, edit, and sequence tracks composed of animations, cameras, digital video, and audio. This toolset also enables you to make camera shot decisions which help you to re-order and re-time your shots on the fly, similar to traditional non-linear video editing.

FBX

MotionBuilder natively supports the platform-independent FBX high-end 3D authoring and interchange format. It lets you acquire and exchange 3D assets and media from a wide variety of sources quickly and easily. FBX is widely supported by the industry's leading software and hardware manufacturers.

Asset Management

MotionBuilder supports Microsoft® Visual SourceSafe® version control software and NXN AlienBrain® software applications as well as multiple data file types. MotionBuilder integrates with these asset management systems, as well as custom systems, adding to the streamlined efficiency built into the product.

User Interface and Tools

MotionBuilder gives you the flexibility to customize the software's interface with a layout manager, keyboard shortcut selector, and many in-context menus and options to streamline the animation process.

Advanced Productivity Tools

The software offers powerful, time-saving productivity tools such as Save/Load Character Animation functionality, file-batching tools, and support for multiple animation takes. These built-in features increase the overall efficiency of your character animation pipeline by freeing you up from time-consuming repetitive tasks.

SDK and Python Scripting Support

Automate repetitive, time-consuming tasks and extend features without leaving the Autodesk MotionBuilder environment. Support for the popular, easy-to-use Python® scripting language allows production facilities to better integrate Autodesk MotionBuilder into their production pipeline. The Open Reality® SDK can be used to create custom tools and features that plug directly into Autodesk MotionBuilder and extend its functionality. In-house developers can create project-specific functionality, which accommodates specific workflows and requirements, including custom file types.

Live Device Support

Stream in live device-captured data - applied to a full-resolution character - in real time. Live Device Support enables an unlimited number of built-in or third party devices to be online and live simultaneously in the scene. You can also write your own custom device drivers to accommodate any number of specialized devices or inputs.

Real-Time Simulations

Use real-time collisions to prevent characters, objects and other scene elements from interpenetrating, or dynamically create a character falling and hitting the ground. The ability to produce rigid body dynamic simulations inside MotionBuilder gives you the means to develop a highly efficient character workflow.

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