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Motion Mapping Parameters Rollout File menu > Load Animation > Open dialog > Edit Mapping File menu > Load Animation > Open dialog > Load Motion > XML Animation dialog > Click Yes. This rollout provides controls for automatically mapping animation tracks and for filtering tracks to reduce clutter. Interface Map Nodes group These controls let you perform automatic mapping by name or hierarchical order. Mapping is done first by node (object) name, and then within each node's hierarchy by controller (track) name. The default method of automatic mapping is Exact Name for both nodes and controller. When you first open the Map Animation dialog, any node/controller pairs whose names match exactly are automatically mapped. To change the mapping, remove any existing assignments in the Mapped list (highlight them and then click the -> button), and then choose an alternate method. Exact Name This maps node to node, by name. If the names do not match exactly, the tracks will not map, and the status line will report how many nodes did not map Closest Name Finds a match in the object names, and uses the Controller options (described below) to confirm the match. For example, if the incoming is R Toe 01 and the choice in the Current list is between Right Index Toe and R Toe Helper, it will look at the controller structure and compare by name, or type or order, and try to determine which node is the closest to the incoming. When the choice is close like this, the status line reports that there was another close match, and highlight the close, but unmapped, nodes in the incoming list in red. Hierarchy This option turns off the above options. It matches by node order; for example, Bone01>Bone02>Bone03 would map to Leg>Calf>Foot, if Controller 7086 | Chapter 23 Managing Scenes and Projects