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    Character Animation

    3ds Max includes two complete, independent subsystems for animating characters - CAT and Character Studio. It also contains Populate, a crowd-simulation system. Both Character Studio and Populate features are exposed in the C++ API.

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    • Character Studio
    • Populate
    • CAT (Character Animation Toolkit)
    Parent page: 3ds Max SDK Features
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