Help exporting anim from maya 7

Ville · Post by **Ville** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:57 pm

hey everyone!

I'm working in a project as character animator/rigger/modeller and I'm having some problems exporting from maya 7.
Oh, I'm new here BTW, but I've checked every topic regarding maya so far...

the thing is, I got my exporter to work, it exports nicely, but If I select a clip in the ogre UI, my xml converter crashes when converting the .skeleton file, and now I can't export animation....

Can anyone help me?

PS: When I saw what Ogre is capable of I was sttuned! great job, people!

ChrisB · Post by **ChrisB** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:46 pm

i don't fully understand your problem, i always to the following (with success):

bake the animation

export mesh and skeleton as binary as well

creating the clips and defining the frames

export

i never experienced problems when doing that.

Ville · Post by **Ville** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:30 pm

thanks man!

I'll try this as soon as I can!

Ville · Post by **Ville** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:29 pm

Ok, tried it, but the thing now is that I'm not I'm baking the animation corectly. Could you (or anyone) please share your workflow for this?

thanks again!

joi · Post by **joi** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:45 pm

Maybe this might help you out, Rixeh made a couple of VTM's on how to animate and export to maya. check it out;

http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... maya+video

The videos from the first post are offline, but if you scroll down the page, DrPain made some mirroring...

Good luck!

Ville · Post by **Ville** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:52 pm

Great, man, thanks a lot!

The mirrors (3 e 4 at least) are not working, but the main links are back on!

Rixeh · Post by **Rixeh** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:39 pm

Hope you like them!

I think I'll make another series pretty soon on basic character animation like walkcycles etc.

Ville · Post by **Ville** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:13 pm

They were great!!

The exporter problem I had was solved (it was the shading group thing, hehe), and I got a lot of usefull tips out of the others, thanks man!

One thing, when you freeze transform the local rotation axis, don't they get all funky? I usually freeze transform before ajusting'em, but I've never realy tried it otherwise...