I haven’t used Maya in production for a few years so I apologise if this is common knowledge these days. Recently though I landed a job animating enemies for a game.
For one of the monster run cycles, the director told me it needs to run 3 metres per second. It’s a 1-second cycle and I’ve finished the animation but not sure if he runs exactly 3 metres. Anyone know of a tutorial or perhaps can provide me a simple bulleted list to run through animating to exact distances like this?
The first thing to find out is whether Maya and the game engine treat distance the same. If they don’t, probably the easiest solution would be to save out a 3-meter box from the engine, and use that to get the proper distance in Maya.
Thanks for the reply Lomax. The characters are provided to me fully rigged and set up so I’m hoping it’s a simple matter of eyeballing the stride distance on the grid. Otherwise, I just wondered if there’s a special technique or tool in Maya 2012 that allows precise stride measurement.
Thanks again
No tool that I’m aware of. The best bet would be to key the root node on the first and last frames, and move it 3 meters forward on the last. Then it’s just a matter of making sure the feet don’t slide. But again, first you’d need to make sure that a meter is the same in Maya as it is in the engine.
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