Tools on the Character tab let you create characters in the scene view.
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 | Add Muscle to Solution | Add one or more muscle objects to an existing metacapture solution. |
 | Align Capture Pose | Allows you to synchronize the position and orientation of the capture and the animation volumes of a capture region. |
 | Bones | Allows you to interactively draw and manipulate bone chains before animating. |
 | Bones from Curve | Allows you to create a bone chain along a curve. |
| Capture Geometry | Uses one or more geometry objects as the skin for a hierarchy of bones or a set of metaball objects. |
 | Comb | Adjust surface point normals by painting. |
 | Edit Capture Blends | Allows you to adjust the blending of previously captured geometry in the Object Viewer. |
 | Edit Capture Regions | Allows you to adjust the bone capture regions. |
 | Edit Capture Weights | Individually modifies point capture weights using slider handles on bones or via a spreadsheet. |
 | Mirror Capture Weights | Applies capture weights from one side of a geometry object to another. |
 | Muscle | Creates a smooth muscle surface that can be used to deform a character’s skin in a realistic way. |
 | Paint Capture Layer | Interactively changes bone or metaball capture weights by painting your geometry. |
 | Paint Sliding Modifier | Lets you paint the sliding modifier attribute onto geometry interactively. |
| Point Muscles | Creates a smooth muscle surface that can be used to deform a character’s skin in a realistic way. |
 | Pose | The Pose tool is used to pose characters by manipulating objects. |
 | Pose Library | The Pose Library lets you capture and load character poses and clips. |