Hi,

Our pipeline for our current project requires us to export from Maya into our game engine. There are some artists that prefer to clean up in mocap in Max. I’d like to get a bvh of the maya skeleton we have characterized into Max. This initially scales the biped to be the same size as the original skeleton. Anyway, it’s giving me errors about the naming convention (from the maya based characterized skeleton exported bvh for Max). Is there any documentation on getting a bvh file back onto a biped in Max? I can’t find any.

Thanks!

Laura

Thanks Ethan,

The reason I need a .bvh file is because you can’t import an fbx file onto a Character Studio Biped. I can get just he regular baked skeleton in just fine and animated as an fbx but it has none of the editing capabilities that are built in to Character Studio. I’ll mess with some more. Usually a CS Biped will take any type of bvh file under it’s motion capture rollout. Not sure why it’s being a pain with this export out of MB from a skeleton named correctly and characterized in MB.

-Laura

I found the link that describes what I need to do to get a bvh on a biped.

http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/motionbuilder2012/en_us/

I renamed all of the joints and the pelvis is stuck in place when I import the bvh through the motion capture panel in Max for the CS biped. The arms and legs are waving around but the joint that they want you to rename “Chest” is causing the clavicles to be sucked together and offset. I’m not sure why Motion Builder doesn’t have a naming convention for multiple fk spine joints..only 1 chest (spine) joint which implies an Ik spine which CS biped does not have. Weird.

If anyone has successfully got a bvh from Motion Builder to a Character Studio Biped in Max please let me know your process!!

Thanks,

Laura