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928 Glossary
cur ves typically are represented by cubic equations
and have a deg ree of 3.
Delegates
In crowd animation (page 2–1154),theDelegate
helper serves as an agent for the motion created by
a Crowd object (page 2–1187) and its behaviors.
The Crowd object controls a delegate or delegates,
whose motion can then be imparted to a biped or
other object.
In viewports, the delegate object takes the
shape of a pyramid. By default, the point of the
pyramid indicates the delegate’s forward direction.
Delegates cannot be rendered.
Dependent
A dependent is an object that depends on other
objectsforitsbehaviororappearance. For
example, an eye with a LookAt Constra i nt (page
2–406) on a tennis ball is a dependent of the tennis
ball, and the tennis bal l is an influence of the eye.
See also
Select Dependents in the Select Objects dialog
Dependent
Describes a NURBS sub-object whose definition
depends on other NURBS sub-objects. For
example, a Blend Curve depends on the two curves
that you select when you create it.
Depot
ThedepotisthesectionoftheParticle View dialog
(page 2–125) that holds the Particle Flow actions
(page 2–141). Ineffect,itservesasalibraryof
P article Flow functionality. Display of the depot
canbetoggledwiththeParticleViewmenu
command Display > Depot.
Toaddanactiontotheparticlesystem,dragit
from the depot to the event display (page 2–131).
To view a description of an action in the description
panel (page 3–928), click its e ntry in the depot.
Descr iption Panel
The description pa nel, found to the right of the
depot (page 3–928) in Particle View (page 2–125),
displays a text description of any action whose
name you click in the depot. Display of the
depot can be toggled with the Particle View menu
command Display > Description.
Dia gonal
A diagonal is a line that connects polygon vertices
in editable poly and Edit Poly objects. Its function
is primarily to resolve the polygon into triangles