Import multiple FBX animations into 3ds Max - Motion Mixer

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A short (well, kind of short) tutorial on how you can import multiple animations from fbx files and smoothly transition from one to the other, for your custom rigged characters.
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[@riadokba1580]

Finally! a proper tutorial about 3ds max anim... Thanks Rev

[@SanctuaryOfTheHeart]

Thank you! I couldn't find this information anywhere else. You demonstrated it very well.

[@mdesignanimationsricardomo513]

Years wanting to learn this! Yes, it's a simple thing for animators but there really isn't much of it. Thanks mate

[@revoconner]

Welcome. Not much of an animator myself but its a cool trick to know

[@FF7EverCrisis]

Thank you very much. It's always biped in the motion mixer. And i have been searching for a way to mix custom motions. Thank you again. This was a very much needed tutorial

[@michaniewiarowski3921]

This is exacly what i was looking for. Thxxxxx!!!

[@18agerap]

Thank you soooo much man! I thought the only way to do that was to use motion builder. Glad it all can be done in 3ds max!

[@revoconner]

Motionbuilder makes it much easier to do though, specially with retargeting skeleton

[@Praudas]

This tutorial saved my life!

[@davidedwardsme]

A problem others have mentioned ...when adding additional clips .. the additional clips has a wobble to the pelvis that causes the animation to move around unexpectedly. Xforms were reset, didn't solve the issue. I can upload a scene file if anyone is interested. Quite sad this tool hasn't had an substantial explanation in the last 10 years or so. If anyone solves this issue, do reply :)

[@blacklight4580]

Exactly what I need. Thanx a lot

[@spacep0d]

Very helpful! Nice to see you demonstrating this with Mixamo animations and a non-Biped skeleton. Thanks for not having background music, super loud mouse clicks, or those horrid yellow mouse pointer highlight circles. :D

[@revoconner]

Always happy to hear it helped someone

[@raydenjax4869]

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[@bentonreese8841]

@Rayden Jax Yea, have been using Instaflixxer for since november myself :)

[@rcano83]

Hi Rév, how I could do the interpolation starting from the Tpose to another animation. I am looking how to do that because I model the garments in Marvelous in T pose so I need to start always in T and go to another with transtion. Thanks!

[@Dhieen]

Is it possible to have multiple animations on the same character but that doesnt mix together? In blender you can export a fbx with mulitple animations in just one file, so when i import in unreal this one file i have multiples animations

[@TheIsmael1034]

when I do new clip from files but shows and error that sais No tracks are mapped

[@rabb1tf00t]

very good for beginners thank you

[@PietrobonoFabio]

hello, there is always a position problem .. when I use a mixamo file if I move it to put it on the scene then it changes the behavior of the bones .. how to solve ??

[@majorpaiyne2124]

Pretty dope tutorial. I think you should do an updated version.

[@moleytv]

Great! Thank you

[@tvortsa]

Thank you very much!

[@zafarali2988]

Nice, thanks

[@ramdpshah]

Nice tutorial..

[@echopathy]

thank you!

[@HarmonicaAndy]

Awesome! Thank you. Is it possible to import two fbx with differnt animation? If i import another fbx the current animation is gone? Need Help, please :)

[@revoconner]

Yeah you can’t do that. Use motion mixer as shown here

[@vfxsquad511]

Thank you

[@klezana]

hi! i cant see the timeline inside of the motion mixer, i can't load source or a lot of the menu options, i would aprecciate some help, im very new in animation :)

[@revoconner]

Make sure everything is selected in the viewport. I am not at home for a few days, someone in this group might be able to help you facebook.com/groups/3dmodelingandanimation

[@krzysztofhrycak6625]

Nice Tut !!! One question. Is it possible to bake motion mixer animations to a rig as animation keys? I know it is possible with bip files but cannot make it happen on xaf imported files. Thanks

[@revoconner]

Export as fbx

[@nicosteyl3709]

can't believe I struggle my ass off with something so simple. But like you said, it's not very intuitive. Thanks for the video

[@nadeem7613]

Hi, thanks for a great tutorial. I have a question please. My character keeps jumping to the start inbetween the 2 xaf files or at the transition, any help would be appreciated. thanks

[@revoconner]

Hmm looks like this could be two things. Either your object didnt have root motion and ended and began animation at different world space, to which I would say before exporting XAF make sure the coordinates of the objects are same in world space. Other thing it could be that transform (xform) wasnt reset, I do have a tutorial to xform reset a rigged model.

[@nadeem7613]

@@revoconner Many thanks for your quick reply, i'll give that a go. Do you have a link to that tutorial?

[@FastandFineRenderingStudio]

hi rev , i put a 2 motion walk and run on the motion mixer tab and character walk then it begin start point again ??how can i fix this? thak you so much

[@revoconner]

Use animation layers

[@saadrs7555]

Sir where ever i import animation it doesn't work, when i imported an xaf file into motion mixer (or import animation) a message shows saying "No tracks are maped" what should i do for it !

[@revoconner]

First you have to select the objects and create a track, the same objects you exported the animation for. Follow all the points in the tutorial.

[@kanimeartes]

Hello, how are you? Excellent video! Doubt: is it possible to edit the animation, such as moving a bone to adjust the pose?

[@revoconner]

Use animation layers and create a new layer. You can now adjust pose here. Remember to save a backup file before doing this as sometimes saving in max with animation layer over motion mixer causes errors

[@romangulyaev2383]

@@revoconner When one animation switches to another one my character changes its position. How can I fix it? Are animations layers the only opportunity to solve it?

[@tuanamirullah]

hey, when i uploaded the animation clips into motion mixer my character seems off axis. the character leaning forward 45 degree.

[@revoconner]

Reset Xform before exporting the animations and also reset xform before importing the anims. I have a tutorial on my channel on how to do that to an already rigged model. Good luck

[@tuanamirullah]

@@revoconner Thank you so much! i'll look into your video first. If theres anything else, i'll ask you later. Thanks!

[@ROMTHIRTY]

I know this is an old video now, but you didn't how how to actually do the compute mixdown for a non-biped figure. That option is grayed out for me and I can't seem to figure out how to mix it down.

[@revoconner]

it doesnt matter if its bipedal or not, I am not using an actual CAT biped from max, its just bones. Again I havent touched this in over 2 years so things may have changed.

[@ROMTHIRTY]

@@revoconner yeah, I’m trying to find more information on it but can’t seem to find any. I’m able to transition animations and see then play out smoothly, just can’t figure out how to bake it.

[@pargisis]

When I reset Xform everything just became more chaotic. the bone and skin appeared not alligned. but they still move properly. Until I load the animations. like walking, it didnt walk forward but walk in the same spot. The problem is the bone..when I reset Xform it..the animation became weird.

[@revoconner]

try selecting all bones, then going to bone tools dialog box and resetting all bones from there. Again not all rigs are salvageable so if that happened you might as well go the root motion method where the root bone is stationary and the walk animation is done by stretching the link

[@centralart5367]

Hi, nice tutorial! I have a character animation from mixamo I want my character to start from tpose. I followed your tutorial, character did start from tpose but later animatin character jumps a bit time to time. Please help me here. Thanks

[@revoconner]

Make sure all the rigs have xform reset, all animation have the same gizmo reference, and there is no root motion involved

[@centralart5367]

@@revoconner Thank you so much for your quick reply. I tried xform reset but cannot get it right. can you suggest me some similar tutorial or more on your earlier reply. Or if it is possible to make a short tutorial. Sorry if I am asking a lot, but I am really in need of it.

[@Marinhonho]

i have the same problem, not very sure how to solve it :( animation kinda vibrates a little

[@godzil666]

Thanks for the video. It looks so clean and easy! I have a problem I cant solve, could you help? Everything is looking good when I import animations separately. But, when i import a TPose and add first animation as a saved motion, the animation is broken. The character floats, change it's rotation a bit and such things. Im not sure if it's important, but I didn't have any "Alpha" to deselct from the list. I would appreciate any tips to solve the problem.

[@revoconner]

Animation is such a pain in 3ds max. Have you tried checking the transform of the animation, check to see if the root bone can be reset

[@godzil666]

@@revoconner It surely is. Im pretty new to animation, like... started yesterday ;) Dont know which bone is a root one, since Mixamo dose not name any bone like that. Then, even if I know, I don't know how to reset it :(

[@godzil666]

@@revoconner p.s. if you meant to place the bone that moves all other bones in x: 0 and y: 0 for both: t pose and a clip meshes, then it didn't change the results :(

[@habeebmohamed4718]

hELPFUL

[@revoconner]

Thank you

[@habeebmohamed4718]

@@revoconner I have a 3ds max uni project, could you please help me with that.. if possible.. pls.. let me know..

[@revoconner]

Habeeb Mohamed send a mail to [e-mail]

[@habeebmohamed4718]

@@revoconner Email sent ,brother,., kindly check, any kind help from your side will be a lifesaver for me.. Thank you so much

[@revoconner]

Habeeb Mohamed i'll check tomorrow

[@davidedwardsme]

I've uploaded a video that highlights the strange movement issues that many seem to experience. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5awkoWmnZtgfaM I've also included a download link to the two FBX files in the video. Any solutions, please do share :)

[@revoconner]

Good stuff! Thanka

[@davidedwardsme]

@@revoconner If you see where i'm going wrong, do let me know ;)