Terms

The following provides a list of terms specific to the MotionBuilder software product as well as some of the most common computer graphics and software terms used in the 3D world.

• 3D coordinate space
• 3D matte

• Actor
• Actor Face
• aliasing
• alpha channel
• alpha-blend
• ambient color
• animation
• anti-aliasing
• artifact
• asset
• attribute
• Auxiliary effector
• Auxiliary pivot

• back plate
• Background Color Cancellation (BCC)
• Background Color Suppression (BCS)
• Background generator
• background plane
• BaseAnimation layer
• batch
• Baud rate
• BCC
• BCS
• bind pose
• Biovision Hierarchical Data (BVH)
• biped
• bitplane
• Black Level
• blending object
• bone
• bound model
• bounding box
• branch
• brightness
• buffer
• bump map
• burst
• BVH
• BWF

• camera
• camera interest
• channel
• Character
• character animation
• Character asset
• Character Face
• Character mapping
• character model
• child
• chroma key
• chrominance
• clip
• cluster
• cluster shapes
• color burst
• color timing
• COM port
• combiner
• command clip
• communications port
• constrained object
• constraint
• constraint clip
• contrast
• Control rig
• cross chrominance
• cross color
• current segment
• custom keying group
• custom shader
• cut

• deck
• deformation
• dense data
• device
• diffuse color
• displacement
• Done state
• dopesheet
• Distribution Factor
• dummy node

• effector
• Effects send
• element
• emissive color
• Environment mapping
• Expression
• expressions constraint
• extrapolation

• .fbx
• FCurve
• fill
• filter
• filtering
• First Contact balloon
• FK
• FK effector
• FK rig
• Forward Kinematics (FK)
• fps
• frame
• frame rate
• function curve

• gap
• generic channel
• geometric primitive
• geometry
• ghost
• Ghost curve
• global coordinates
• global keying group
• gobo
• Guide pose

• Hardware FC
• Head-up Display (HUD)
• hierarchy
• highlights
• HSB
• HUD
• hue

• IK
• IK effector
• IK rig
• interpolation
• Inverse Kinematics (IK)
• IP address

• jogging
• joint

• key
• keyframe
• keyframing
• keying group

• latency
• layer
• Linear key
• local blend
• local coordinates
• local keying group
• look at point
• loop
• luminace
• luminance key

• magnetic mapping
• marker
• Marker set
• Match pose
• material
• Mipmap
• model
• moire
• morph target
• motion capture
• motion source

• Namespace
• naming template
• National Television System Committee (NTSC)
• node
• noise
• Non Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS)
• normal
• normal map
• NTSC
• null
• NURBS

• object keying group
• occlusion
• opacity
• OpenGL
• Optical editor
• optical mapping
• Optical root
• origin

• PAL
• parameter
• parent
• parenting
• partial occlusion
• patch
• Phase Alternating Line (PAL)
• pitch
• pivot
• pole vector
• pose
• property

• Qt
• quadruped
• quaternion

• reference node
• reflectivity
• Relations
• relational constraint
• remote port
• render
• rest pose
• retargeting
• Rigid body
• roll
• rotation

• sample
• saturation
• scaling
• scene
• scrubbing
• segment
• sensor
• serial port
• shader
• Shadow map
• shape
• shape operators
• shininess
• shuttling
• simple constraint
• skeleton
• skin
• SMPTE
• solving
• souce object
• specular color
• specular reflection
• Sphere map
• Spherical map
• spline
• stabilizing object
• stack
• stance
• SteeringWheels
• subcarrier
• swapping

• take
• tangent handle
• TCB
• tesselation
• texture
• timecode
• Timewarp
• track
• transformation
• translatioin
• transparency
• trigger
• triggering group
• T-stance

• UCS
• unlabelled segment
• unweighted tangent
• up-vector
• user channels
• User Coordinate System (UCS)
• UV

• value
• vector
• ViewCube
• visual keyframe
• voice channels
• VK ripple
• VTR

• waveform
• WCS
• weighted tangent
• wheel
• wheel surface
• wheel wedge
• wheels
• wireframe
• World Coordinate System (WCS)
• world coordinates

• X-axis
• X-coordinate

• Y-axis
• Y-coordinate
• yaw

• Z-axis
• Z-coordinate
• Zero keyframe
• zero point