Maya Tutorial - Baking Deformation-based Animations into A Mesh

This video quickly discusses how to bake deformers into a mesh using Blend Shapes. From there, the FBX can be used in engine!

[@gloriousrobotbunny3275]

you just saved a 2nd semester animation project less than a week before due date thank you so much my hero :D

[@ikerclon]

One of the few problems of baking deformations into blendshapes is that the complex trajectories that the vertices follow in Maya become linear when converting to shapes. Just several days ago Keenan Woodall release 'Deform', a set of deformers for Unity that mimic the ones you can find in your favourite 3D package. 'Bend' is supported as well; not to be translated from Maya but to be built from scratch in Unity. It could be a nice complement to the technique told in this video.

[@opsxp23]

Thank you sir!!! Still useful after 4 years.

[@amirhoushmand9520]

Saved my life , now I wont kill myself after seeing this tuturiL

[@sophanimate]

Thanks so much for this been trying to work this out for ages!

[@kihkih-vz2hz]

thx you so much ! I have spend a whole night for this , help me a lot 👍🏻

[@RareTutorials]

Very Helpful. Thanks been looking for a way to bring my lattice deformations to unity.

[@BadVoodooMon]

Glad this helped!!

[@ParichayJadhavSINCE1996]

this was a problem solver been looking around for the solution for such an issue thank you so muchh

[@torahhorse]

thanks for the straightforward explainer!!

very helpful great tutorial

[@Grace111419]

super helpful tutorial ty!

[@reptilianhuntress9968]

Thanks man, you're a life saver

[@ohsharon94]

Thanks for the tutorial! Much appreciated~!

[@adclubbatch16]

very useful thanks

[@20mi]

A lot of usefull trick. Thank you so much

[@FrankTheTank-ie5ic]

Thx buddy you saved my ass

[@derernstzunehmendeheimwerker]

nice tutorial man

[@MisterTurkilton]

Thank you so much, helped me alot! :)

[@vigneshhariharan9687]

Thanks Man!. This helped me a lot:)

[@BadVoodooMon]

I'm glad to hear this is still of use! You're welcome :)

[@hsulu4573]

thank you

[@thesdfable]

omg thank you!

[@FurkanWahab]

Thanks for sharing, I wanted to know, what should we do with in-between blend shapes, because in my case they are not working in unity.

[@kwamefrancis2912]

I followed this exactly and my fbx won't export with the blend shape animation. What am I doing wrong?

[@dwainehiggins4451]

How can you export the mesh and blend animation clip separately and have it work in Unity? I’ve been able to get this to work with the standard fbx export but not when I separate the mesh from the animation with the game exporter :(

[@MrShroombot]

How would you do this with a snake following along a curve motion path with a lattice deformer? Thanks.

[@Miketulli8]

New to Maya, sorry if this is a dumb question - does this increase or decrease the number of influences per vertex, I know Unity can only handle 4?

[@juanelox1212]

Can i do this with a skeleton animated rig but with local rigging? Which means i've added blendshapes to the main character, and these are animated via joints as well... How could i approach this?

[@user-bw7td8ou1l]

motion path flow path object lattice how to bake

[@mnabeel9947]

hey can you help me out, i am not able to export animation and blendshapes from maya to unity i have followed all your steps but not able to export facial animation, joints animation do work.

[@zoujingxiang6167]

Thank you, can you tell me how can export a animation made by blend tool(in deform as well).

[@javiermonto5108]

I can`t see the keyframes on the timeline if I use the shape editor¿?

[@thesdfable]

yeah I had the same issue. for some reason it doesn't work if you use the shape editor. Just do it from Animation - Deform> Blend Shape

[@nicolasportu]

ok, but the real magic is how to import the blendshapes and use it in Unity. If you bake it, there is only an animation...

[@luhsu5337]

thank you...