Here's a quick and easy way to copy and paste animation from one rig to another in Maya. You can cut, copy, and paste animations of characters, skeletons, and other objects to objects in another scene.
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0:00 / 7:34 This is a quick video detailing a method for copying the animation of one rig and pasting it onto another. The primary intention of this video is to offer a. 524 Share Save 56K views 7 years ago I made this video for a project in my APR class at Full Sail University. Learn a easy way to transfer your keys from one character to another. This works. I haven't had to in a while, but there's an option under File > ATOM > Export/Import Animation that should do the trick for you - just make sure to select the controls you're copying from and to in the same order, and it will do the rest. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us.
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You can find the process here: Export .atom animation Once you have your original animation exported, you can now Import it onto a new rig or into a new scene by following these steps. Import .atom animation If you'd like a video demonstration on this process, you can find one below: ATOM (Animation Transfer Object Model) 0:00 / 2:58 Move Animations From One Maya file To Another Shon Stewart 72 subscribers Subscribe Subscribed Share 7.1K views 4 years ago I made this to show one of my animation students. 69 2.9K views 6 years ago This video shows you how you can transfer a character's animation to some other scene or use it to add on any scene. This may be useful for transferring walk cycles, or. In this video i am telling you the technique of transferring animation from a character to other character with different rig setup in maya.Steps are simple.
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Jul 2011. Well, it seems that sometimes the most obvious route goes completely overlooked. I was able to transfer the animation by: 1) Importing the male animation maya binary file into the scene. 2) Selecting the the controller for the male rig, then selecting the corresponding controller for the female rig. 3)Edit-->Transfer Attributes Values. Copying animation from one HIK to another? : r/Maya • 5 yr. ago by billbot2000 Copying animation from one HIK to another? Hello! I just want to copy my animation on an HIK rig to another scene (file) with exactly the same HIK rig/character. I can't figure out how that would work, without just baking all the anim. thx! 1 8 comments Best
Hamish MacKenzie has one too. You could also use Maya's referencing too to apply the animation from one rig to another. If you create a reference and use the original character, replace the reference with the one you updated then all the animation will be transfered over perfectly as long as you kept with the same naming convention and such. Welcome to the Autodesk Maya Subreddit. We share and discuss topics regarding the world's leading 3D-modeling software. Click a flair to sort by topic and find a wealth of information regarding the content you're looking for.
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Is there a way to export a rig from one Maya project and import it on a character in another? maya Share Improve this question Follow asked Nov 24, 2014 at 9:24 John Demetriou 532 3 12 28 I'm not sure about this but can't you just copy and paste it? Open the first project, copy, open the second one and paste? - tkausl Nov 24, 2014 at 9:40 Can I? Right-click "Copy" in the timeslider range. Select bones on target character (once again, make sure you do this in the same order as when you selected bones on your animated character.) Right-click in timeslider- "paste\paste". If this isn't the case, I can describe a method for constrain\relative retargeting that's a bit more setup-intensive.