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Use various triggers to control your character

Use various triggers to control your character - Character Animator Tutorial

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Use various triggers to control your character

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- Triggers let you launch actions as you work in real time. And proper design of the placement of your triggers helps you in production, and you can use more that just your keyboard. (upbeat music) Triggers are best when they are both easy to remember and easy to use. Keep them grouped so you don't have to look at them to use them. And you might want to concentrate on the left hand keys on your keyboard so that your right hand can use your mouse. Of course, you can also use the visual triggers in your control tab. That's right down here on the bottom, if you look under controls. So any one of these visual controls down on the bottom can activate something. And of course, you've got the Stream Deck. An external device that we showed in one of the earlier videos. But you can also trigger movement using your head. So let's create a quick head movement trigger, and we'll have our character here wave using it. Now, we could use the W key, or this icon right here to make our character wave.…

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