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Understanding the motion browser

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Understanding the motion browser

- [Instructor] Next I wanna talk a little bit about how this browser works. So remember I said it's kind of a mirror image of the model browser. For example if I see one two one up here, you're gonna see one two one down here, PCA, PCA, so on and so forth. So you see any parts that are in the model environment are also gonna be in the animation environment. Notice I've got a bunch of key points going on in here. And if you wanna see what the key points are doing you can hover over and notice it's showing that there's an exploded mate there that's going through. And you can tell this is an exploded mate because it's using this little icon here that, if I take my mouse off of it then it goes away. But you can see it's got this little image of an exploded line and two parts. So if I expand this and I highlight the move, notice right here where it says move, you're not seeing anything on the line corresponding to move. But if you go to the explode, it's using this explode. So what that…

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