• move the characters on the floor.
• rotate the characters (orientation and roll and bend).
• change the pose of one character (right click on it and select Edit Pose in the popup menu).
• view the tracks of one character (right click on it and select Edit Track in the popup menu).
• define a position in the library (right click on it and select Add position to library in the popup menu).
• add a pose in the library (right click on it and select a cataegory in the submenu Add pose to library in the popup menu).

The 3D view can be switched to an other viewpoint (top, bottom, front, back, left or right).

Once you have edited the stage (positions and poses of the characters) and want to record them in the routine, just click on the Sync button. This will synchronize the position and pose for the edited time. If you define new keys, they will then appear in the Routine Editor window. Using the keyboard

When using the buttons to move, change orientation or bend/roll a character, you can :

• simply click on the button.
• click while maintaining the Shift key to do smaller increase or decrease.
• click while maintaining the Control key to do even smaller increase or decrease.

The ghosts are a sort of shadow of your characters. They allow you to view the pose of your characters at a different time.

As you change the main time using the arrow keys, you change the time of the ghosts using the Alt-arrows keys or giving a specific time in the box labeled Time.

You can :

• activate or desactivate the viewing of the ghost by clicking on the icon.
• choose to view the full ghost or the feet only by clicking on the icon.

The ghost are very useful when editing a step : to be sure you character is not splipping, just set the ghosts time at the begenning of the step. Then when you change the main time, you can see if the step remain at the same location than the beginning of the step.

The Memos

The memos allows you to store temporary information about the poses of characters in order to use it in another routine.

To use a memo, it is simple :

• click on the left button to store the poses into the memo.
• click on the right button to restore the poses from the memo to the stage.

To join a figure you are editing, store the last poses of the characters in one of the memos and paste them at the beginning of you new move.

• reset the joint : all the angles will be set to 0.
• restore the joint to the value for the edited time (either a value given by the user if this is a key, or the interpolated value if between keys).
• view the track associated with the joint (see below).
  The three options above will only by available if you click on a part of the body

• add the pose to the library by using the submenu to select a category.
  This will popup a window to define the pose more precisely :
  • give a comment to your pose. This comment will be shown when browsing the library (see Library window).
  • select the part to record as the pose in the list on the right. The parts selected (and which will be used later) are shown in yellow.
  • define the icon : the view on the left part of the dialog shows the icon as it will appear in the Library window.
    This small view use the same bindings as the main 3D view in the Stage window : just play with it to define the best viewpoint.