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From: [e-mail] (Alexandre Rousseau)
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:Doing mech movements in lightwave is even easier then imagine...
:    All you have to do is set up each object with it's joining point
:at 0,0,0 in the modelor, or move the pivot point in layout then parent them.
:just move and rotate the body objects at will...  It's all done right
:in layout.  You don't have to set up a cycle in the cycle editor, and then
:bring it into the stage to try and fit it in with the animation going on
:in there.  I think it's so much easier to handle the motion beter when you
:can see what the other objects are doing in the scene while your animating
:your charactor motion.
:

One only wishes that, for a given movement set-up, that the actual
"repeat" feature in the motion control panel actually replicated
the motion n times instead of being just a flag. That way, you
could set-up a simple walk cycle, multiply it by 10 (e.g. 10
steps) and then tack on additional motions; instead of being
obliged of doing everything by hand...

Alex.