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SmartDancer 136 – Links
108 – Preparables vs Immediates (Passive vs Actives/Actions) 109 – Registering vs Activation 110 – SmartDancer Philosophy 111 – Canons 112 – Animations 113 – COMMANDS – Sequencer 114 – COMMANDS – AutoFX 115 – COMMANDS – PREP 116 – Setup 117 – Basic Canon 118 – Canon Reverse 119 – Canon Order 120 –…
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SmartDancer 135 – Playing Sequences
You can now read in and play any sequence from 1 to 9 and are no longer restricted to just sequence 1 (*sequence1). *sequence0 is reserved for the Sequence Master that lets you play a series of sequences in the order entered onto the Sequence Master. Sequences play automatically upon the completion of the previous…
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SmartDancer 134 – Sequence Master
A new feature now allows you to sequence sequences. The *sequence0 nc is now reserved for the Master. This Master sequences sequences. This feature is OPTIONAL. It could look like this: *sequence0 1,PlaySeq,2 2,PlaySeq,1 3,PlaySeq,3 End Notice that it can play sequences in ANY order. There are currently up to 9 sequences possible from 1…
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SmartDancer 133 – Vanish for Avatars
Avatars on poseballs will now DESCEND 20 meters below upon Vanish. Avatars on poseballs will now ASCEND 20 meters above upon Appear. Target is taken into consideration so this allows you to override this action by simply excluding the avatar letters from the target command. Example: If avatar is “R” then specify jklmnopq as target…
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SmartDancer 132 – Duration Time Introduced as Option to Elapsed Time
You can now use duration as opposed to elapsed time in your *sequence ncs. Include the ElapsedOrDuration,???????? entry at the top of your *sequence nc where ???????? is either ‘duration’ or ‘elapsed’. Omitting this entry altogether is the same as saying ‘elapsed’. The 2 following examples result in the same performance: ElapsedOrDuration,elapsed 1,Dance,BenBhang8 | 0 2,Dance,D-Belly11…
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SmartDancer 131 – PREP Commands Demoted
PREP commands differ from sequence commands in that they allow multiple commands on one line to help save space and allow more sequencer commands into memory. Sequencer commands are stored in its own script and PREP commands are stored in their own script. PREP commands are non-active commands in that you dont see any effect…
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SMARTDANCER 130 – TUTORIAL 114 – THE CANON – BOLLYWOOD
A special application of the Canon comes from first imagining that it might be able to do something that you have seen done in real life then going about figuring out if and how it can be done. Another method is thru pure experimentation which can lead to some serendipities. A happy accident like this…
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SMARTDANCER 129 – TUTORIAL 113 – THE CANON – FINISH
The Canon FINISH feature is found under CanonOrder which is under [Canons]. It is a preparation feature that causes the Canon to use the CanonAnimation2 automatically along with a HOLD command AFTER the dancers to their normal CanonAnimation which should be CanonAnimation1. and then after the LAST dancer completes their animation CanonAnimation2 , they all automatically revert…
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SMARTDANCER 128 – TUTORIAL 112 – THE CANON – SWITCH
The Switch command is a preparation command. It toggles between SWITCHED and UNSWITCHED with UNSWITCHED as the default. Its effect happens upon the next CANON command. It causes the Canon Dance to alternate between CanonAnimation2 and CanonAnimation1 for the duration of CanonInterval2 and CanonInterval1, respectively. These entries are on the *smartdancer nc inside of the…
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SMARTDANCER 127 – TUTORIAL 111 – THE CANON – HOLD
The Hold feature, which relates to Canons, prevents the canon dance from reverting back to the backing-animation when it has completed its Canon Interval time. In other words, it acts as if the Canon Interval was infinite. Use the Hold feature prior to doing a Canon. The other state, which is the default, is Released. So…