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Our character needed a fork so we imported a custom fork, which is included in the code bundle located on the book page at the Packt Publishing website. We then used a premade Hand Motion, Hold Stick, to appear to grasp the stick.

We will go further into animations and motions in the next chapter. Now that we've properly attached and modified the glasses and the grilling fork our characters are starting to look more like a couple enjoying the outdoors.

Interacting with the iProps

We are going to have our male character pick up the beer to demonstrate how interactive (iProps) work.

In order for the character to interact with the prop the character needs to:

This is important. Otherwise, the character will jump down to terrain level to grasp the beer can and will seem to disappear, when in fact it's dropped down below the porch or part way through the porch.

With Deckhouse A selected, right-click and choose Add to Terrain from the popup menu.

We have now let the iClone engine know that the floor level of the house is now a part of the terrain.