Importing Fbx Animation From Oddity's Rig Into Ascottk's Rig

[Domarius]

• Load ascottk's fbx file
  
• Click File, Load animation
  
• Specify the fbx containing the animation file using oDDity's rig
  
• Choose "Plot to rig" and click ok
  
• Now you can begin the usual export to Doom 3 process (import to maya, etc.)
  

Specifying "Plot to rig" instead of "Retarget" means that it will fill each frame with a keyframe... not editable. Retarget just imports the keyframes as is, which would make it editable, but because the rig is a bit different, the animation is all screwed up.

 

So for this reason, the animations still have to be changed oDDity's rig, and then exported to ascottk's rig.

 

Not really a problem, just a couple of clicks and waiting for 10 seconds while it imports and applies, but an unfortunate complication nonetheless.

[oDDity]

There's also a dedicated external converter app for changing fbx files between the different versions.

FbxConverterUI.exe

It should be in your 7.5/bin folder. You can batch convert them.

[Domarius]

Thanks - the issue here though is importing the animations I did on your rigs, onto the new rigs that ascottk made.

[Domarius]

Ah sorry, I just realised why you said that - to myself I've been referring to your rigs as the ver 6 rigs and ascottk's rig as the 7.5 rig. I knew what I meant but that's just silly for instructions.

 

I just edited the first post so that I refer to them as oDDity's rig and ascottk's rig.