Exporting animation from MAYA

[Rudity]

hmmm??

I dunno.

Under Edit \ keys \ Bake Simulation \ there is some options and one called shapes..

I have no Idea if this would work for what you explained though...

Give it a try.

Or maybe someone else here knows for sure if it can.

Later
Rudity

[BRUTICUS]

well i'm pretty sure there is a 3DS exporter, dunno if the Maya exporter exports animation frames though. If not you can maybe find a way to export the frames as a sequence and then use each frame as morph targets. Well not much information but its better than nothing and your thread was about to dissappear forever to page 2.

Good luck.

[mark_wilkins]

This is pretty easy. A few lines of MEL can loop over each frame using the currentTime command and use file -export to save, say, an OBJ file.

Assuming $max is the number of frames to export and $mesh_name is the name of the mesh you want to output:



for ($t = 0; $t < $max; $t++) {
currentTime $t;
select $mesh_name;
file -exportSelected ("myfile." + $t + ".obj");
}

-- Mark

[Leszek]

Wow thanks guys for great reply.Hope it works!

[beaker]

There is a script on highend that does what mark talks about. It exports a sequence of obj files and there is a max script that assembles them as blendshapes in max. The script is for maya 2 and max 2.5, so it probably needs some modification.

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