Maya to Unity Tutorial: Exporting rigs and Animation as FBX

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I’m actually looking for blendshapes function too, if you found something could you send me a link?

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[@hugodalben1738]

can I export blendshapes rigs too in fbx?

[@emile4395]

I know this was asked a whole ago, but maybe someone has the same question, so: yes you can. you can access and animate them via the ispector in unity

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[@slavemandog]

An easier way to do this by method 2, is to: 1) Work only on the maya file in wich you have all the animation 2) Select the main mesh and the joints and then export the Main.fbx without animation (tip. by select by tipe + shift mesh) 3) Then Edit / keys / bake simulation 4) Go defining the frame rate of every especific action (ex. Attack, deffend, jump, etc) 5) Re-bake (by the previous way), and then with the joints and the mesh selected, just click now "export selection" and this time with the animation checkbox on. 6) Name your file as in this video: "Main@jump/attack/deffend/etc.fbx" 7) Continue doing this till you finish all the actions. WHY ALL THIS? BECAUSE MANY TIMES, IF YOU RE OPEN AN FBX FILE JUST TO CLEAN THE FILE, IT MAY HAVE DATA LOSE OR RE-SCALE THE MESH, SO IN UNITY NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU CRY, THE MESH WONT OBEY THE ANIMATIONS (T_T) THANKS FOR THE VIDEO :)

[@wajdyf]

Method 2 is for a typical game production pipeline where you have multiple animators , so having 1 maya file is unrealistic

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In The setup thank you so much!

[@alexgabriel2591]

the blendshape information is export in the second method too?

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[@Kirin122]

I hope you see this. I have a problem. I am doing the second method but im having problems when i have blend shapes and for example, animation 10 need to use a blend shape that baunces hears of my char. I tried making aditional join and connecting it to blend shape and then animation join but when i import it to unity it wont connect joint to blend shape animation. Tried bunch of different thing with no success. The only way is to export it in method 1, and then it works. Do you know a solution for that or is there a solution ?

[@YouTubsel]

I think you might need to set up a script that reads out the values from your additional joint and hook them up to your blendshape slider in Unity. If you aren't keying the blendshape values directly then Unity probably doesn't recognise the connection between the joint values and your blendshape morphs.

[@lCaKeSl]

Hey, great tutorial! When I export my FBX it says it can't export constraints unless I turn that option on. Only problem is I can't turn that option on if I don't have Animation also turned on. Do you rig without any constraints??

[@Daniel-qt5ib]

_3 years later_ - Hey uh... did you ever find a fix for this, or another way of exporting animations? I just hit this problem.

[@animatorgamedev179]

​@@Daniel-qt5ib Hey, Unity doesn't accept constraints on controls as far as I'm aware. You need to skin the meshes to joints for Unity to read it. If you want a joint to be driven by another, it needs to be a child of the driving joints (further down the hierarchy). You'd be able to drive it through code though if you have that in your toolset.

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Question... How do you put the frying pan in the guy's hand in Unity? I'm making a college project in Unity and all I need to figure out is that. I need to put a gun in a guy's hand, or a knife, something like that.

[@animatorgamedev179]

Hey, you simply middle mouse drag your weapon object under the hand bone in the hierarchy in Unity. The weapon will then move with the character.

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Lovely. Thanks for your time, friend. :)

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[@chennaibills1977]

Hi animator friends, i have an issue ; iam not able to play the facial blendshape animation (which is with base character.fbx. ie mesh and bones with facial animtn in bind pose) ) and body animation (which is bodyanimation.fbx. ie bones with body animation without mesh) in unity. seems two different 'Take001' cannot be attached and played at the same time. plz guide me

[@chennaibills1977]

hi guys every maya to unity tutorial i see here in youtube skipping the linking animation ie doesnt seem to show about step by step of how to create 'animation controller then linking it to rig in unity. iam just struggling to attach or link animation(only skeletons with animation information) to rig (skinned character model) in unity.... ! anyone please help me

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like how do u begin? how u put that abraham lincoln there? teach me please

[@indianeinstein1978]

hi, i did the same way you did from maya to unity. but not able to understand the last part which is attaching the animation skeleton file i to the rig(without keyframes) n the unity ....? can you plz guide me on that..? is there any same naming needed?

[@juanelox1212]

How can I do this if I have a local rig for facial animations?

[@jagotato]

Do I have to animate in animation layers? How should I do the animations?, one project of maya per animation? I have no idea, please help!!

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Thanks soooo much for this tuto !

[@franciscomendoza6507]

Liked the Tut!... character joints, controls, and else... can be done any way? make that one tutorial... and the one for the controls that calls the animation ;) will be pleasured!

[@lenaverstappen6270]

Thanks for the helpful tutorial! I'm having a problem that I'm wondering if you might be able to help me with? When I export to FBX the skinned mesh disappears? Any idea what I might be doing wrong here?

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thank you so much for this!

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version fine? Also are the extra plug-ins worth the extra $100?

[@Zuntrix]

Will updating the skinning on the model file also translate to the animation clips?

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Do you know if this is the same with UE4?

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I am very new to modelling and 3D animation. Where the heck did he get that thing from with which he swings around?

[@nightknight7208]

Noob here.. I've managed to get the animations to show up in Unity when looking at the inspector panel, but when I actually drag the animation into unity it doesn't animate, it's just the model itself without animation. I tried dragging the Take001 onto the model but nothing happened. I then tried adding an animation component to the model and dragged the Take001 into the animation field and ensured play automatically and the box next to animation were both ticked to no avail.

[@nightknight7208]

... Huh. Sorted, but for anyone having the same issue, I don't know exactly what I did but eventually I got an error saying the animation needed to be legacy. The option on the Take 001 itself was grayed out, but on the parent model you go into debug mode in the inspector pane and you can set the animation to legacy within there.

[@akshaybeem]

will it be good to animate gun in maya or is it better to do in unity ? and if maya then how to import the animation with hand model .. thank you :)

[@Blender3D_Specialist]

Hi AnimatorGameDev, please show or guide me about how to export blendshapes in #Method 2..

[@nabarunroy998]

I got a warning saying : 468 attributes had complex animation. Complex animation was exported as baked curves. (14040 evaluations done) What does that mean? Moreover baking all animations to bones increases the file size too much.

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SA. I opened. My eyes hurt. Too many buttons. Don't know what to do. Closed my soft.

[@loganasaurusrex8246]

Hi, is there any way to incorporate blendshapes into the second method? If there is please tell me how or send me a link, thanks

[@Snowmanzz]

when i do method 2 and export all i get a shit load of errors and warnings, dont does that happen?

[@belenromero5047]

I'm having trouble importing an animated elephant head (in Maya the elephant's animation looks smooth but in unity the animation looks really stiff, it's just the head that manages to move but not the gestures) I think the animator used blend shapes. What does he have to consider when exporting to fbx?

[@loganasaurusrex8246]

I am actually going to use the second method, if you found any way to incorporate blendshapes into it, it would be great if you could send me a link

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[@Supernova12034]

I like how you didnt actually put the animation in the scene and see if it works in game.

[@marcusharris3599]

hey i was just wondering did you use a referenced in the model on the animation file or did you do the animations without referencing in the model?

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nice work, thank you, it will be usefull for me! :D

[@nganhoang764]

it's so helful, Thanks alot

[@rimateng2484]

hi, great tutorial. just one little question, is it possible to export baked vertex animation from may to unity? like baking blendshapes and deformers into your mesh and export to unity, or you have to create joints for all the deformations?

[@tiagosousa5278]

found out? had that question myself

[@OveAlejandro]

Thanx you so much!