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