The Actors of Your MMO - Wizards and Warriors: Massively Multiplayer Online Game Creation - page 146

mouse to spin the actor around, so you can see all views. You can reset the view
to its original position by clicking the Reset View button. The male/female radio
buttons allow you to switch between the male and female versions of the selected
actor.

You can see the preview window in Figure 8.7.

Figure 8.7
The actor preview window.

Before moving to the other tabs within the Actors tab, it ' s time to create an

actor.

Creating an Actor
In this section, you

ll create an animation for a 3D mesh and texture that have
been imported. In this example you

'

ll create a bear actor. You can use any other
already imported media if you want.

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1. You will need to be in the Actors > Actors tab.
2. Click on the New Actor button; this will create a new actor called New
Actor [None].