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FBX animation import

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#1

So I’m using Cinema 4D to make this character model. Everything was going fine got it imported and could see the animation running and all. Then I wen’t back to C4D to try and UV unwrap it and give it some basic textures. Did that and now I can’t import the animation. It gives this error.

Warning This does not contain any valid animation takes.
Warning Warning: No smoothing group information was found in this FBX scene. Please make sure to enable the ‘Export Smoothing Groups’ option in the FBX Exporter plug-in before exporting the file. Even for tools that don’t support smoothing groups, the FBX Exporter will generate appropriate smoothing data at export-time so that correct vertex normals can be inferred while importing.
Warning Could not find the bind pose. It will use time 0 as bind pose.
Warning Animation Stack C4D Animation Take does not contain any valid key. Try different time options when import.

Anyone have any ideas?

#2

Seems like your fbx doesn’t contain any animation data -> could you post your export settings + how you import it? + Have you already tried to import everything together in one file (so skeletal mesh + animation)? :slight_smile:

#3

I’ll take a screenshot of my export settings as I’m exporting. Though there’s definitely an animation sequence. I wonder if I’m just not exporting it properly(?)
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#4

So I set the animation range when I was importing and it worked! Might be some sort of difference between Cinema 4D Studio and Visualize since I just upgraded. I tried going back and exporting a previous animation that I’d imported successfully and it gave the same error.