Maya Trax Editor Won't Export Animation - "invalid file type for clip export"

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone.

So I've spent two full days trying to figure out what is going on here and I have no idea how to fix it.

I have a character downloaded from Mixamo - this character and all the animations downloaded with it work fine but I needed to combine certain parts of different animations. So off I went into Maya to do this. I've followed basically all of the tutorials I could find over the past two days and nowhere can I see what's going on.

So I have brought in my character, created a character set, brought in the animation files, made tracks from them, blended them together.

At this point I have merged them together and tried to export them through "file/export animation clip" - I have also tried exporting the merged clip through the visor. Both times I get the error message:

// Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2018/scripts/others/doExportClipArgList.mel line 69: Invalid file type for clip export: FBX export //

Whether the track is merged in the trax editor or not, it still doens't work

It is the same for any of the file types I select.

In the picture provided, the animation clips were not merged in the track editor, but I assure you, I have merged them before and tried, it still didn't export.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm on a PC

Windows 8.1

AMD FX-8350 Eight Core Processor

16GB RAM

64-bit

Student version of Maya 2018.

Thanks,

Calum

[Anonymous]

Just to add to this mystery, I had a look in the "doExportClipArgList.mel" script to see what it says.

Now I have no idea what any of this means but the error was referencing line 69.

No idea if that helps anyone here?

I also noticed a part of the script mentioning exports:

Again, not sure if that will help anyone pinpoint my problem.

Thanks

[mspeer · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Only Maya ASCII (.ma) and Maya Binary (.mb) is supported.

Please read the Maya online help (although there is still also .mov mentioned, which is wrong)

[Anonymous]

Hi mspeer,

I tried exporting as a .mb file - the problem when I tried that was that absolutely nothing was actually exported. When I opened the file later (or tried to bring it in with the character), there was no animation present. Not sure why that was.

I'm going to give the Time Editor a try and see if that will help.

[mspeer]

Hi!

You can try Time Editor, but Trax Editor works here too.

"nothing was actually exported"?

What does this mean?

No file, empty file (0 KB), no animation clip inside,...?

[oli]

I'm having the same issue, what he means is, Maya did not create a file, no file at all.

An MB or MA file export has no data, so im guessing its an issue with selecting the anim file  

timeEditorClip -populateImportedAnimSources "Baked_BakedAnimSource_Export1" -showAnimSourceRemapping -importOption "connect" -track "Jamie_For_ref_NOFM_2:Composition1:1" -startTime 66 "Walk_To_kneel_1";
// Warning: Clip was not created because no objects inside the Animation Source "Baked_BakedAnimSource_Export1" were found in the scene
// 0
// Warning: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2023/scripts/others/teAnimSourceNamespace.mel line 242: No attributes were matched. No clip created.