FBX Question

Spudnik

Hey guys,

When I export as .FBX, the bound skins only export if I do an "Export All". For example, if I have only a poly cube and a bone in my scene, and I select those two after doing a Bind Skin -> Smooth Bind and go to "Export Selection" , after opening it in 3DS Max (exported from Maya), the cube is not bound to the bone. If, however, I do "Export All", it works. Is this a know bug (feature?) or should I include something else in the selection when doing "Export Selection"? I'm at a loss here...

Maya and Max both 2012 and FBX plugins both 2013.2

monster

Works for me with 3ds Max. Make sure you have all the bones affecting the cube selected. A workaround would be to just import everything then delete the unwanted stuff.

Spudnik

I tried that too, it didn't work either.

GeeDave

I'm sure you've checked this already, but when you're doing the Export Selected are you 100% sure that you have all your related objects/bones selected? Scratch that, are you 9,999,999% sure?

Spudnik

I have the poly object plus the bone selected. The weird thing is that it has worked for me before this way and stopped working at some point 2-3 weeks ago (though I didn't notice till about 1 week ago)

GeeDave

Could be a little checkbox on the export window that you've accidentally clicked? When I was working with .fbx format I setup two (tested) presets right at the beginning, one for just objects and another for animation, that way if at any point something went screwy, I'd know if it was something I had done, or something the programmers had fluffed (very likely )

Spudnik

The "Skins" checkbox is checked. The problem is that prior to 3ish weeks ago everything was completely fine. I hadn't touched the setting when it started getting screwy