Maya Bake Animation To Skeleton

The bake simulation options window closes.

Maya bake animation to skeleton. If you do edit keys bake simulation then its not exactly what you need. Thats the sign you baked your animation right. Learn arch viz 44722 views. Attentionif you added the control rig to an animation layer during retargeting the layered animation overrides the baked animation.

Then youd have to reimport your mesh with the skeleton characterize it and set the animation source to your previous control rig or the character. When you do this you should notice your skeleton moving independently of your control curves now. After maya 2018 update 4 skeleton colorization is no longer automatic when you use the bake deformer tool and no color is assigned to the skeleton when you create a new skincluster. The source skeleton is the skeleton from which you want to retarget its animation data and the target skeleton is the skeleton to which you want to retarget the sources animation.

Select key bake animation. Now skeleton colorization is optional. The skeleton to which the deformation are applied. This would copy all the control rig data to your characters skeleton.

In the bake simulation options window do one of the following. The retargeted animation plays in the scene as animation bakes to either the target skeleton control rig or custom rig. Maya to unreal 4 skeletal mesh workflow. But if you have only the control rig with animation data.

Select the keys or keyset that you want to bake. In that case you could use bake plot to skeleton. Once you have defined your characters skeletal structure using the humanik character structure you can transfer animation between skeletons that have the same or different skeletal structures and proportions. However when baking the lighter mocap data to a skeleton in maya it adds keys on every frame to the baked curves and when i try to use smart bake which should put only the keyframes that appear in the original anim curve it instead places keys at the start and the end with the character skeleton rotatingtranslating wildly in between.

Go to animation tab key bake animation. Retargeting in maya is based on the autodesk humanik character solver. Click apply to.