Pose Driver

Solo Driven Pose / Curve Only

Here you can toggle if the Pose Target is representative of an entire pose or just an Animation Curve. When enabled the property will only interpet curve data and leave the source joint(s) in place. When Disabled, all pose data will be used.

Tools

When the Pose Driver node has a pose asset set in the Pose Asset property, you can select the following options to dictate the behavior of the poses or curves driven by the Pose Driver. From the drop down menu you can select from the following options:

Copy All from PoseAsset: Create and set all Pose Targets from the associated animation poses from the set Pose Asset. When selected, this option will overwrite any existing pose targets. Auto Scale: Automatically set all Scale factors, based on distance to the nearest neighbor pose target.

Add Target

You can add a pose target with the (+) Add Target button.

Solo

Clicking and holding the solo button will preview the pose target in the viewport. You can also Double-click the solo pose to lock the Pose Target pose preview. You can double-click on a locked pose's solo button to unlock its preview.

Remove Target

You can remove a target by selecting the Remove Target button, adjacent to the specific Pose Target you wish to remove.

Scale

Here you can set the Pose Target's curve or pose scale. A value of 1 will result in the full curve or pose value being used as the Pose Target.

Drive

Here you can select which pose from the set Pose Asset to drive using the Pose Target.

Hidden

When enable this property will hide this Pose Target from debug drawing.

Override

Here you can set an override the pose targets blending method and function. In the first field you can set the Blending Method form the following options:

• Euclidian

• Quaternion

• Swing Angle

• Twist Angle

• Default Method

In second field you can select an override blending function from the following options:

• Gaussin

• Exponential

• Linear

• Cubic

• Quintic

• Default Function

Curve

Enable this property when the Pose Target is an Animation Curve rather than an animation pose. When using animation poses as pose targets, disable this property.

X, Y and Z

Here you can reference and adjust the X, Y, and Z values of the Pose Target location. Which, by default, can be seen in the Viewport as a green object. If all values are set to Zero, the motion of the pose target will be isolated to the Source Bone and its Children.

Source Bones

Select a bone from the character's skeleton to use as a Source Bone to apply the driven animation pose parameters based on orientation. Many source bones can be added, but at least one is required. Add (+) Indexes, to define source bones to drive the pose orientation from.

Eval Space Bone

Here, you can select optional bones from the character's skeleton to evaluate the Source Bone's transform. If not specified, the local space of Source Bone is used.

Eval from Ref Pose

When enabled, the Source Bone orientation and transform will be evaluated relative to its Reference Pose position. This is recommended when using Swing and Twist Angle as Distance Method, since the twist will be computed from the character's Reference Pose. When disabled, the local space of Source Bone will be used.

Only Drive Selected Bones

When enabled, all bones that are not set in the Only Drive Bones property will be filtered out.

Only Drive Bones

Here you can add and select bones from the character's skeleton, to be exclusively used when the Only Drive Selected Bones property is enabled.

Solver Type

Here you can specify which type of blending solver to use. Typically, the Additive solver requires normalization, and the Interpolation solver does not. The Interpolative solver also has smoother blending, whereas the Additive solver requires more targets but has a more precise control over the influence of each target.

• Additive: The additive solver sums up contributions from each target. It's faster but may require more targets for a good coverage, and requires the normalization step to be performed for smooth results.

• Interpolative: The interpolative solver interpolates the values from each target based on distance. As long as the input values are within the area bounded by the targets, the interpolation is well-behaved and return weight values within the 0% - 100% limit with no normalization required. Interpolation also gives smoother results, with fewer targets, than additive but at a higher computational cost.

Radius

Here you can set the default radius for each target.

Automatic Radius

When enabled, the node will automatically pick the radius based on the average distance between targets.

Function

Here you can set the blending function to use. The options available are:

• Gaussin

• Exponential

• Linear

• Cubic

• Quintic

• Default Function

Distance Method

Here you can set the blending method to use. The options available are:

• Euclidian

• Quaternion

• Swing Angle

• Twist Angle

• Default Method

Twist Axis

Axis to use when the Distance Method is set to Swing Angle. You can set the values of the axis limits on the X, Y, or Z axes.

Weight Threshold

Here you can set the weight, below which should be ignored, in the contribution from the target.

Normalize Method

Here you can set the method to use for normalizing the weight. The options include:

• Only Normalize Above One: When values exceed 1, values will be normalized.

• Always Normalize: Zero distribution weights stay zero.

• Normalize Within Median: Normalize only within the Median Reference property values. The median is a cone with a minimum and maximum angle within which the value will be interpolated between non-normalized and normalized. This helps to define the volume in which normalization is always required.

• No Normalization: Don't normalize at all. This should only be used with the interpolation method, if it is known that all input values will be within the area bounded by the targets.

Median Reference

When enabled, you can set the rotation or position of median limits used for normalization, when the Normalize Method is set to Normalize Within Median.

Median Min

Here you can set the minimum distance used for the median normalization method.

Median Max

Here you can set the maximum distance used for the median normalization method.

Drive Source

Here you can select which part of the transform is read, the Rotation or Translation, to apply the alpha to drive Pose Targets.

Drive Output

Here you can select if the Pose Targets are animation poses from a Pose Asset or animation curves to drive. You can select:

• Drive Poses: Use target DriveName to drive poses from the assigned PoseAsset.

• Drive Curves: Use the target's DriveName to drive curves.

Pose Asset

Here you can select a *Pose Asset** from your project to drive.

Axis Length

Length of axis in world unity used for debug drawing.

Cone Subdivision

Number of subdivisions / lines used when debug drawing a cone.

Draw Debug Cones

When enabled, the cones will be drawn in 3d for debugging.