R10 FBX export any solutions?

[Per-Anders]

This really sounds like something you should be calling Maxon tech support with, but in the meanwhile have you tried FBX 5.0 instead to see if that will work for you?

[tmas73]

I did call maxon they have no help, just mention the developers in Germany.
I dont see a fbx exporter in R10 only FBX 6.

TMAS

[Per-Anders]

[edit nevermind :D change between the nearly ready update and 10.008] You should find the prefs for both with R10 in the edit->preferences->Import export, worth checking if any of that helps solve it, in R10 though you do have a seperate FBX 5.0 and FBX 6.0 exporter (or should have). I'm not sure if FBX will export the new bones though or only the older bones, remember that the importer will have to interpret the "deforming nulls" to joints (just a checkbox in Maya).

On the support side what exactly were you told? Did they confirm the crash?

[tmas73]

Yes they did on PC and Mac.
If I go to prefs Import export there is only a FBX 6 Export option and there is no FBX 5 option. Are you using a R10 beta?

TMAS

[Sammer]

Hey Thomas,

Exporting works here fine whether it's bones or joints although if I export the same skeleton that has been converted from bones to R10 joints MB only sees them as nulls (We've known since R10 came out that joints skeletons have to be converted to bones to work in MB). Other than that no crashes here.

I'm on OX.04.08 and R10 here with no problems, I'm wondering if it's just that file? Can you open a character from an earlier version of Cinema in R10 and export that?

Feel free to email me if you need someone with MB to help troubleshoot.

As for the Fbx ver. 5, I only have ver. 6 export/import in the preferences window. Fbx ver. 5 is listed in the help file but when you click on it it just switches to the ver. 6 export page.

[tmas73]

Hi thanks for the help can I email you guys and maybe it works on your system.

TMAS

[Srek]

Since the FBX 5 SDK is not available as universal binary it is not working with R10 on mac.
Unless Alias decides to port FBX 5 to UB there is nothing Maxon can do about this.
Cheers
Björn

[Tank_3D_Attack]

Since the FBX 5 SDK is not available as universal binary it is not working with R10 on mac.
Unless Alias decides to port FBX 5 to UB there is nothing Maxon can do about this.
Cheers
Björn

Isn't it rather a question of fixing FBX 6.0? Version 6.0 has a whole lot more features (such as exporting multiple UV sets and such...) so why wait for Alias to make FBX 5.0 UB? Doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I am not getting the point here. I reported several bugs which are all related to FBX 6.0 in R10 - to me it seems like the implementation of FBX 6.0 was done rather "incomplete" (and features are missing). Not a rant...rather an observation :) Maybe you didn't get it all done in time for the release of Version 10.


Thomas

[Srek]

FBX 6 im- / export needs some more attention and it is getting it. Chances are we will even be able to get some FBX 5 compatibility in to avoid problems caused by the non existent FBX 5 UB support from Alias. These are two seperate things though.
Cheers
Björn

[tmas73]

What about 7.5 will it work with the new Motion Builder? This is a major setback. FBX is the only way to use a professional applications combned with Mocap data from Vicom and it is not working.

TMAS

[wbj]

What about 7.5 will it work with the new Motion Builder? This is a major setback. FBX is the only way to use a professional applications combned with Mocap data from Vicom and it is not working.

TMAS

Don't read it as v6. It's v6 and higher.

Best regards,

wbj

[Sammer]

TMAS sent me his file and it's problem had nothing to do with MB or .fbx. It was just a corrupt Cinema file.

Hey Thomas (Tank) I didn't fully follow you there, are there bugs that your aware of (and if so ???) or do you mean there are features being left on the table?

In the past I've always figured Alias and Autodest were slow on getting Maxon the SDK (not intentionally of course) "... yeah, it got lost in the mail... yeah, that's the ticket'.

With R10 I figured maybe there wasn't enough time to rewrite it. If there would have been, I asked myself, wouldn't it have been able to import/export joints instead of only bones since that's what MB and almost every other app (now including Cinema) are based on? (but as usual I wasn't paying attention having been distracted by some shiny object)

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