The Behavior Editor proposes a diversity of controls and shortcuts to manage and combine Behaviors, Operators and Behavior Triggers. This page lists all the classic manipulations helpful in designing and debugging a Behavior Graph.

Workspace manipulations

BEHAVIORS/OPERATORS MANIPULATIONS

Open a container into a new tab

• Double-click on an Entity Type in the Behavior Outliner Entity Types view to open the mapped Behavior Container
• Double-click on a previously created Behavior Container in the Behavior Outliner Scene Behaviors view. 

Expand/Collapse a container

• Click on the +/- button to expand or collapse the relative container

Select Behaviors/Operators in the Behavior Graph

• Left-click *on the Behavior/Operator. Use *SHIFT key for multiple selection
• Drag-and-drop inside the workspace to use the rubber selection band

Add a Behavior/Operator into the Behavior Graph

• Drag-and-drop the desired Behavior/Operator from the Behavior Library into the workspace. A new Behavior/Operator will be created

• Press "TAB" key inside the workspace and use the hotbox. A new Behavior/Operator will be created

• Drag-and-drop a previously created Behavior/Operator from the Behavior Outliner inside the workspace. Press Alt Key to duplicate it instead of moving it.

Remove a Behavior/Operator from the Behavior Graph

• Press Delete Key after selecting the Behavior/Operator in the workspace
• Use "Remove" in the context menu

Duplicate Behaviors/Operators from the Behavior Graph

• Use "Duplicate" in the context menu

• Use CTRL+D on selected Behaviors/Operators to call glmDuplicateBehaviors command.

Duplicate Options

Use the Option box in the context menu to access the behaviors duplicate options

• Create New Triggers: Creates new default triggers on the new behaviors
• Share Triggers: Reuses the triggers from the original behaviors

Duplicate Behaviors/Operators from the Behavior Outliner

• Use Alt Key + Drag-and-Drop from the Behavior Outliner into the workspace.

Save/Share Behaviors, Operators and Behavior Containers

Behaviors, Operators and Behavior Containers can be saved in a file (Maya ascii file) as a Custom Behavior and then reused in another simulation or shared between users. 

Notice that in order to work fine inside a complete different scene than the one where the master Behavior was saved, all meshes and objects mapped to saved Behaviors and Behavior Triggers are also saved (for example a Behavior Trigger and its zone trigger mesh).

Save Behaviors/Operators and Behavior Containers

• Use "Save" in the context menu

• Use "Save Options" in the context menu to edit connected object saved with the behavior. Then use "Save".

The new Custom Behavior is saved in a Custom Directory. This directory can be changed in the Crowd Settings or by choosing "Set Custom Directory" in the contextual menu of the Custom Behaviors Library.

Open a Custom Behavior

• Drag-and-drop a Custom Behavior from the Custom Behaviors Library into the workspace, if the Custom Behavior is a Container double-click to open it in a new tab.

The Custom Behavior is automatically loaded and ready to be linked and simulated.

Share Custom Behaviors between users

A Custom Behavior can easily be shared with another user by simply providing him the file in which Custom Behavior has been saved (see Crowd Settings to locate the Custom Behavior directory). There are then several ways for this user to import Custom Behavior:

• Either by directly putting the file in its own Custom Directory. The Custom Behavior is then automatically available in the Custom Behavior Library.
• Or by creating a copy of the Custom Behavior by opening the file in Maya and re-saving it as a Custom Behavior through the Behavior Editor:
  • Start Maya and load the Golaem Crowd plugin;
  • Open the Custom Behavior file;
  • Open the Behavior Editor;
  • In Behavior Editor Scene Behaviors, drag-and-drop the Behavior in the Behavior Editor workspace;
  • In Behavior Editor Main workspace, right-click on the drag-and-dropped Behavior and "Save", as previously described.

Enable/Disable Behaviors and Behavior Containers

A disabled Behavior/Behavior Container is not evaluated during simulation, the next Behavior/Behavior Container marked as enabled will be played.

Enable Behaviors and Behavior Containers

Disable Behaviors and Behavior Containers

Behavior Triggers Manipulations

Select Behavior Triggers in the Behavior Graph

• Left-click *on the Behavior Trigger. Use *SHIFT key for multiple selection

Share Behavior Triggers between Behaviors

• Go in the Triggers Attributes on the Behavior and set the Starting or the Stopping Trigger of the Behavior to the same Trigger than the other Behavior you'd like to share the Trigger with. Once shared, the Triggers will be highlighted at the same time in the Behavior Editor:

To learn more about Behavior Triggers sharing, see Behavior Triggers.

Add a Stop Trigger on a Behavior

• If the Behavior doesn't contain any stop triggers, add the Behavior in the flow 
• Create a link between two Behaviors
• Use "Add stop trigger" in the Behavior context menu

Remove a Behavior Stop Trigger from a Behavior

• Use "Remove last stop trigger" in the Behavior context menu
• Use "Remove trigger" in the Trigger context menu

Behaviors/Operators Sequence Manipulations

Link Behaviors/Operators

Link Multiple Behaviors/Operators

• Select multiple Behaviors/Operators for the source or the destination
• Use the link button or the middle mouse button to draw links from or to the selected Behaviors/Operators

Link Behaviors on a specific Stop Trigger

• Create a link between the specific stop trigger and the behavior
• Drag-and-drop the behavior on the specific stop trigger

Unlink Behaviors/Operators

Enable/Disable Link

Notice that only links after Alternative/Random Operators could be enabled/disabled.

• *Left-click *on the Link Arrow.

Behaviors/Operators hierarchy manipulations

Add a Behavior/Operator as Behavior Container Child

• Drag-and-drop with mouse-left desired Behavior/Operator over the Behavior Container. Note that the Behavior/Operator will be added outside on the Behavior Graph, unlinked.

Group a Behavior/Operator Graph Selection in a new Behavior Contrainer

• Select the part of the Behavior Graph you'd like to group and press Ctrl + G to create a new Behavior Container with the Behavior Graph in it.

Add Behaviors into a Parallel/No Order Operator

• Drag-and-drop the Behavior over the Parallel/No Order Operator

Remove Behavior/Operator from a Behavior Container

• Use "Remove" in the context menu. Note that it will also remove the Behavior/Operator from the Behavior Graph. It can then be found in the Behavior Outliner

Remove Behaviors from a Parallel/No Order Operator

• Drag-and-drop with ALT+mouse-left desired Behaviors/Operators out of a Parallel/No Order Operator