Maya to FBX to XSI with skeleton/weights 2005-06-08 - By Andy Jones
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My experience has been that each software company only does a good job
bringing assets from other programs into their own programs. Maybe they
think they'll be able to trap people into using their program. (Whereas
in practice, people usually just opt not to use it at all). The moral
is, I typically use DotXSI to get things into XSI and FBX to get things
into Maya. Neither is perfect, though, and I've definitely had
instances where I couldn't get rigs into XSI intact using DotXSI. This
sort of thing seems to always require some trial and error, like what
you're doing. Good luck.
-Andy
Eric Lampi wrote:
>David,
>
>I was using FBX just about a week or two ago, and I
>came to a conclusion... It's slow and it sucks!
>
>You will get much better, faster results using DotXSI.
>
>I have no idea how well it imports skeletons, but it
>seemed that everything I used it for it worked
>flawlessly.
>
>Eric
>
>--- "McLeod, David" <david.mcleod@(protected)> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm having trouble importing an FBX file (with
>>skeleton and envelope weights
>>intact) into XSI 4.2.
>>
>>The FBX file was exported from Maya 6.0 and even
>>though I've tried every
>>combination of settings the only way I've been able
>>to keep the envelope
>>weights is if I use the "convert the bones to nulls"
>>option.
>>
>>I get a "no static kine pose" warning and a "non
>>conventional skeleton"
>>warning on import. I assume this is because it is
>>different to the
>>motionbulider/FBX default skeletons but I need to
>>keep the skeleton
>>structure as it is.
>>
>>I can save the weights as a preset from the "import
>>bones as nulls" model
>>and load them onto the "bones" model but I would
>>rather not have to do this.
>>
>>
>>I'd be very grateful if anyone can offer any
>>solutions or suggestions.
>>
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