Playing Motions in Parallel
Golaem lets you play more than one motion at the same time on a character.
It can be done simply by putting multiple animation behaviors (Motion, Locomotion or Sync) in a Parallel Operator.
Motion / Locomotion Behaviors in Parallel
(can be in the same Parallel Operator, or in different containers
embedded in a parallel operator)
As a general rule, motions on the feet/legs should come from only one animation behavior, in order to avoid foot sliding.
Mixing motions on different body parts
With body masks, several motions can be played at the same time on different parts of the body. When doing this there is no real blending, each animation behavior is controlling its own body parts.
A MotionBehavior playing a Walk animation on all parts of the body except the Arms. They can be controlled by another Behavior (wave hand...)
See more details here
Animation Layers (additive blending)
Animation layers enables to add posture and/or variations motions on top of existing motions (for example breathing, head variation motions, adding hands motions on top of mocap without fingers...). It then does not requires any body mask setup.
On top of its convenience, this method enables to get a lot of variety in animation because several parameters can be randomized (relative weights, speed, start percent....).
For example from the following input motions
 Stand animation (on full body except hands) |
 Breathe animation (only on spine, arms and head) |
 Clench Fists animation (only on hands) |
Additive blending will enable to generate the following animation
See the Animation Layers section for more details
Interpolated Motion Blending
You can enable Interpolated Motion Blending mode to generate a whole range of motions given only a reduced set of motions representing the extremes. Same as with animation layers, this can be done with randomized animation weights and speed ratio.
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 Waving T-Animation |
 Interpolated Animation |
See the Interpolated Motion Blending for more details