Animating for Games - Game Character Development with Maya - page 956

FIGURE 16.10 Playblast options
View automatically opens the movie for you after Maya has finished capturing it.
Having Show Ornaments enabled keeps the camera name, axis, and other on-
screen displays visible in the playblast.
The Viewer options let you specify how you would like the playblast to be output.
The Movieplayer viewer will use your operating system's default movie-viewing
software, and will more than likely output the playblast as a single movie file.
Fcheck is Maya's own viewer and can only handle images. Thus, the playblast is
output as individual frames—but this can produce a better, cleaner playback of
your animation.
As you begin to animate later in the chapter, don't be afraid to generate any number of
playblasts; they are an invaluable means of making sure your animation is headed in the
right direction.
Creating a Walk Cycle
In this section we will produce a walk cycle for Kila. First we will block in the basic mo-
tion; once this is in place, the animation can be easily tweaked and refined.