Re: Multiple animations in Maya Export?

Anonymous · ‎10-12-2012

Does the FBX plugin for Maya support multiple animations? If the humanoid.fbx model is loaded then saved, there is only one animation in the resulting file.

Anonymous · ‎10-15-2012

Hello Doug,

When you say "multiple animations", do you mean multiple takes? Or, several objects each with 1 animation?

Can you describe what you want to do?

Thanks!
Carlos

Anonymous · ‎10-16-2012

Multiple takes. Importing the humanoid into Maya, then exporting it loses the takes and the names of the takes.

Anonymous · ‎10-18-2012

Hi again Doug,

What you are seeing is normal behavior for the plug-in. You can save more than one take into an FBX file, say coming out of Motionbuilder, but you can only import one take at a time. The following is from the FBX Documentation you can find online:

"Animation Take

Note
You can only select and import a single take of animation at a time."

So, when you import humanoid.fbx into Maya, you are only getting 1 take, therefore it's normal that you only get 1 take leaving Maya as well.

Regards,
Carlos

Anonymous · ‎10-18-2012

This seems like a serious flaw in the support of FBX. All your tools should support multiple takes to be a true interchange format.

Anonymous · ‎09-10-2013

You are sooo right!!!

Maybe if each take was imported as different clip, in a separate track in the Trax editor? Wouldn't that better solution than importing only one take at a time? This way you would actually have inside Maya ALL the animation the fbx file contains!