Fbx export of animation from maya

[Anonymous]

Dear all,

i would be really happy if you could help me to export three animations from maya in fbx. There is a 60 second animation, it should be splitted into three 1-20 second, 21-40 second, and 41-60 second.

As a result I need to have an fbx file, which when loaded to FBX Review allows to swich between these three animations.

Thank you all in advance!

[saihtam · Accepted solution]

Hey, as far as I know you can't do this via a nice UI in Maya unless you get a script/plugin from somewhere. But it is quite easy to do with code. You just need to tweak one simple line.

FBXExportSplitAnimationIntoTakes -v "nameOfTake" startFrame endFrame;

You just need to run that in your scene for each of your takes. I did a test of one FBX file with three takes and used this code.

FBXExportSplitAnimationIntoTakes -v "first" 1 10;
FBXExportSplitAnimationIntoTakes -v "second" 20 30;
FBXExportSplitAnimationIntoTakes -v "third" 40 50;

That gives me this:

You can also run this line to get the information about the takes you have created.

FBXExportSplitAnimationIntoTakes -q

Hope that helps. Let us know if you need any more help.

I found this information on this page which shows the different MEL commands for FBX.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so mush for your reply! 

[Anonymous]

This works - thank you so much!!!