Maya animation screws up when exported...

General Discussion
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The animation works perfectly fine in maya but once it’s exported, the vertices fly everywhere like a terribly glitched game character.

The UV maps are fine, the paint weights are clean too(otherwise it’ll show in maya already). Can anyone please help?

Thanks in advance.

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i remember this sort of problem from many other exporters. there, it usualy occured when the armature and the mesh had different transforms (object origins are not in the same position/rotation/scale). dunno if this applies to maya,too. but worth to check

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Thanks for the reply :smiley:

I’ve tried the method you suggested, doesn’t work either.

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Difficult to speculate. Are you using any unusual skinning or animation techniques? What happens if you create a simple Maya model, for instance, a cube, and animate that–does it animate correctly? If so, where is the difference between this simple model and your model?

David

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Hi david, the techniques used are exactly the same as the rest of my various classmates’. Theirs turned out fine…

edit: David, could you elaborate more? Because my character has over 200 bones, including the facial rig. I’ve another team of classmates who did the same thing as well.

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Hmm, if your classmates have an example of something that came out right, but yours came out wrong, there must be something different about them. I have no idea what it could be offhand, though.

Have you tried my suggestion of starting with a simpler model to see if that works first? If it does, you can try again with a more complex model to see if that works. The idea is to narrow down on precisely what’s different that causes it not to work.

David