Baking animations and importing to Unity

[Luis_HerreraPortillo]

Hi so I made some animations for a small game I’m working on also this is for school. How t
Do I bake the animations and export as a FBX my animations?

[Milio]

I created this video about my workflow exporting animation from mgear to FBX.
Whether is unreal or unity the exporting data from Maya is the same. Hope it helps.

[Miquel]

Thanks @Milio!

[Luis_HerreraPortillo]

Hey so i haven’t gotten anything to work the skeleton doesnt have any key frames and every bit of animation is attached to the controllers, if i delete the controls all animation disappears and i can’t seem to get anything to work

[chrislesage]

@Luis_HerreraPortillo didn’t watch the entire video. But I do know that I have to set all my joints channels to keyable before baking, otherwise they don’t bake properly. I don’t know if the Game Exporter does this automatically or not. (I use a different tool.)

Rigging export to unity

Our goal is to have one character (geometry + skeleton + weights) where we can load a bunch of different animations (skeleton with baked transforms). I’m not using the game exporter because we need some extra customization when exporting (we need to create a couple of root bones among other things). Also, by default mGear has the joints as ‘non-keyable’, so make sure to change that if you are exporting animated skeletons to your game engine. Roughly, the steps I follow are these: 1/ if the rig…

[Luis_HerreraPortillo]

Could you tell me how to set all the joints to keyable?

[fury_Night]

@Luis_HerreraPortillo
This is my code：

import pymel.core as pm

jnt_org = pm.PyNode('jnt_org')

deformjnt = [s for s in pm.ls(jnt_org,ap=1,dag=1,type='joint')]

att = ['.tx','.ty','.tz','.rx','.ry','.rz','.sx','.sy','.sz','.v']

for i in deformjnt:

    attr = pm.PyNode(i+".shear")

    attr.disconnect()

    for attr in att:

        pm.setAttr(i+attr,keyable = True)

[Luis_HerreraPortillo]

@fury_Night

import pymel.core as pm jnt_org = pm.PyNode(‘jnt_org’) deformjnt = [s for s in pm.ls(jnt_org,ap=1,dag=1,type=‘joint’)] att = [’.tx’,’.ty’,’.tz’,’.rx’,’.ry’,’.rz’,’.sx’,’.sy’,’.sz’,’.v’] for i in deformjnt: attr = pm.PyNode(i+".shear") attr.disconnect() for attr in att: pm.setAttr(i+attr,keyable = True)

How exactly does it work?

[Luis_HerreraPortillo]

im confused, i don’t know how code works, especially in maya

[fury_Night]

I don’t know if I got what you described (English is not my native language, sorry), I understand how to make this code run and work? ! Right?
The gif shows how to use it.

[Luis_HerreraPortillo]

I don’t get how you selected the joints clicked something on the code, ran it and just worked

[chrislesage]

Select the translate, rotate, scale, and rotateOrder attributes on all your joints. (rotateOrder might be locked. If it is, don’t worry about it.)

Right-click on the channels. And select “Make selected keyable”. You’ll see the channels go from light grey (non-keyable) to yellow (connected).

Make a channel keyable or nonkeyable | Maya 2016 | Autodesk Knowledge Network

[Luis_HerreraPortillo]

Ok i did it, i made it keyable and the little lights are yellow, is that it?

[Luis_HerreraPortillo]

Ok so im having one small little issue, so i get a little warning that says
The plug-in has detected mesh nodes with unsupported operators that affect the vertex and/or face count. To correct this, delete the Non-deformer history before exporting. The following nodes will not be processed:
Head
Mouth_main
Belly_and_legs
And i don’t know how to fix it!