Animation and Rigging Tools: FAQ, Known Issues and Feature Roadmap

ernstAlert · August 20, 2015, 1:01am

wertstoffsack;343383:

Hi ,

in your importExport2016.mp4, you successfully import “Reload_Shotgun_Ironsights”.

I´m desperately trying to recreate your result, both in Maya 2015sp6Ext1 and Maya 2016sp1. For me, every time that ****** *.fbx dialog pops up (see 6)) and I don´t get the animation onto the character.

I´m getting the 4.8 Mannequin Character to import Mocap onto via EpicGames>Add Character for Animation

In the ART menue I click on Import Motion

I get # Error: WindowsError: file Drive:/UNREAL_database/Epic Games/4.8/Engine/Extras/Maya_AnimationRiggingTools/MayaTools/General/Scripts\ART_importMotion.py line 279: 267 #

The Import Motion Browser pops up anyway

I browse to Reload_Shotgun_Ironsights.FBX, which I get from Content/AnimationStarterpack>Reload_Shotgun_Ironsights and RMB>Asset Actions>Move>Export

That shmf fbx dialog pops up and prompts to import, I try all sorts of different settings and hit import

something -1 to 0 happens to my timeline but nothing to the rig, depending on the import dialog settings for *.fbx, I get a copy of the skeleton in the scene.

Is there a chance you have a custom *.fbx sdk build on your side that suppresses the *.fbx file import dialog window, or maybe a prefs setting that does that?

On my side, I deleted prefs for both Maya 2015sp6Ext1 and Maya 2016, saved jointmover.mb with 2015 and made sure that the *.txt file and *.py in the prefs>scripts are there and point to where they should?

Also, in another video, you show how to set export to FBX 2014, that I can repro but how would one set import to FBX 2014?

Cheers,

Hey !

I don’t recall if we cleared this up in our email conversation, but with regards to having a custom fbx build, we do not. We’re using 2014.1 Release(214447) in Maya 2014.
Also, as far as importing goes, I believe it will import according to the FBX version of the file being imported. So, if you try to import a 2016 fbx into 2014, you’ll end up with a blank scene. If you imported using the import motion tool, it would have done the timeline adjustment and brought in nothing (at least, that’s what happened to me when I just tested a 2016 FBX in 2014)