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Animation importing issues from maya

Hey guys, been wracking my brain around this for a couple of hours and its doing my nut in...

I have a walk cycle, run cycle and a jump animation for my character (they are 3 different scenes). Everything in the jump works fine except for the torso_anim (spine is IK) thats not doing anything. The legs, which are IK, seems to be working as they should.

In the walk and run cycles the IK legs work correctly except for the fact that it looks like the feet are being pulled down over time, then jumps back into position when loop restarts (the curves dont show this). Also, torso_anim works in walk cycle, but not in run....

I've tried a lot of different ways of importing: .ma, .mb (both with baked animation and non baked, in unity and in maya). FBX 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011 (all with baked and non baked).

There is one thing that i do suspect, but cant figure out how to fix it. It shows this error when exporting FBX.

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None of those grps or anim should have a bind pose (and they dont) unless Im mistaken? History has been deleted.

Here is the basic outline of my rig:

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Only spine and legs are IK.

If i cant get this to work, my only other option, is to re-rig the legs and spine so its FK...

I have FBX plugin 2011.3.1, Maya 2011 and Unity 3.1

Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated.

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asked Jan 26 '11 at 09:52 AM

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Does it look correct if you export manually to fbx and them import back into Maya?

Jan 26 '11 at 02:36 PM Paulius Liekis

Hmmm... didn't think of trying that. Thanks. And no, it doesn't work. My suspicions were correct. It gave the following error when importing the FBX: "The following parent and/or ancestor node(s) is/are not part of the BindPose definition. doNotTouch_grp, torso_ctrl_grp, torso_grp, all_anim, mesh_grp." I know this is not the maya forums, but do you perhaps know how to fix this?

Jan 26 '11 at 04:46 PM TehblakWolf

Sorry, I don't. I just tells me that it's not a problem in Unity :)

Jan 26 '11 at 05:14 PM Paulius Liekis

Indeed :D Thanks for the help.

Jan 26 '11 at 05:27 PM TehblakWolf

Have you tried adding a bind pose?

Mar 09 '11 at 04:20 PM shawnkilian
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