Re: Exporting issues

[Alok]

Not sure but maybe a FBX Version conflict, are you able to get the animation flawless in MAx or Maya through same FBX

On 30/05/2012 5:46 PM, Paul Griswold wrote:

Hey all -

I have a scene that was created in MatchMover 2013 (VBS export - the only thing that works with Softimage...).

I'm now trying to export the scene to Eyeon Fusion and I'm having all sorts of problems getting the camera data out.

I've tried dotXSI which normally works, but when I bring it in to Fusion I only see RealvizCam with animation applied on Angle of View - no other channels.

I've also tried exporting the entire scene as an FBX, but same issue.  The camera contains nothing but animation on AOV.  Looking at it in Soft I can see animation on FOV, POSX, Y, Z and ROTX, Y and Z.

Any idea what's going on?


Thanks,

Paul

[Markus]

Hi
There seems to be a problem with the fusion. Fbx and dotxsi importer.
They mention in the manual that you have to use the dotxsi for camera data but I never got it working ,
My workaround is to plott constrained cubes or whatever and export those as dotxsi.
In fusion you load your fbx and the on the camera import the animation for the cam and the target(interest) from the plottet cubes dotxsi.
Hope this helps
Sry for spelling typed on the phone.

Am 31.05.2012 um 00:25 schrieb Manny Papamanos <Manny.P...@autodesk.com>:

> I did a quick test and got the cam and interest animation to Motionbuilder in .fbx.
> If you import the .fbx back in in Autodesk software or the .xsi back in Soft and it looks good, then unfortunately their (Fusion) importer is lacking.
> It could also be that you cut the camera hierarchy/constraint relation with the effector in soft and their importer is not liking this.
> Perhaps their importer would be happier if you kept the cam hierarchy in place but just removed the constraint the cam has to the effector then do the export, (leave the effector there).
>
> If not then copy the animation to a null and export to fbx..and attach their cam to the null.
>
> -manny
> AD SI and Mobu support

>
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> From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:47 PM
> To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: Exporting issues
>
> Hey all -
>
> I have a scene that was created in MatchMover 2013 (VBS export - the only thing that works with Softimage...).
>
> I'm now trying to export the scene to Eyeon Fusion and I'm having all sorts of problems getting the camera data out.
>
> I've tried dotXSI which normally works, but when I bring it in to Fusion I only see RealvizCam with animation applied on Angle of View - no other channels.
>
> I've also tried exporting the entire scene as an FBX, but same issue. The camera contains nothing but animation on AOV. Looking at it in Soft I can see animation on FOV, POSX, Y, Z and ROTX, Y and Z.
>
> Any idea what's going on?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul

> <winmail.dat>

[Manny Papamanos]

[Paul Griswold]

[Paul Griswold]

Actually, MatchMover 2013 seems to have all sorts of problems too.

I tried nearly every exporter I could find.  Some of them worked, but FBX would either give an error or crash.  XSI would either give an error or crash.

I was able to get data from MatchMover to Fusion directly by exporting a .MA file for the nulls and an LWS file for the camera.

It's pretty sad that Autodesk took a pretty nifty program and have let it languish....

I'll let Eyeon know there's an issue, though.  

-Paul

[Dan Yargici]

Yup, it's my pet gripe.  It's rebranded with each release but *no* bugs are fixed at all.  It's disgraceful that it's used in advertising as a feature.

It's unable to export any Autodesk native format to Soft!  That command ridden vbs script is appalling, but as you say, it's they only real option!

[Paul Griswold]

Solved it.

Even though the camera already has a keyframe on every frame, if you tell the dotXSI exporter to plot the animation it creates a .xsi file that works fine with Fusion.

A bit frustrating for sure.

Paul