Maya FBX plugin help

melviso

I am having problems while trying to export a scene from Maya to motionbuilder.The problem is when I try to export with fbx,most times Maya crashes if it doesn't,fbx says there are some problems with skin definitions,constraints were not exported.If I export cameras,the animation of the cameras in motionbuilder become totally different from the way I animated it In Maya.Some of my meshes become missing in MB,some deform badly and the imported camera gives the meshes in MB a jagged look whereas if I use a MB camera,the models look clean.Some of the skeletons don't move the way I animated it in Maya either.
I have tried baking the animations of the skeletons and camera before exporting,they still don't move the way I animated them.I am thinking of cleaning up the mesh,deleting the animations of the skeleton and try to eliminate the problems in fbx,so that when I import into MB,the new skeletal mesh is clean and then I import the animated skeleton and do retargeting to get all the animation I have done back into MB,but if the animated skeleton does not move the way I animated it,does that mean I have to start from scratch again in motionbuilder?

Fingus

Have you tried using the preset settings for motionbuilder in the FBX exporter?

melviso

Yes,and its way worse as sometimes Maya crashes.It crashes less when I use the Autodesk Media & Entertainment preset.But the errors and problems still come up with it.

melviso

Okay..been struggling with the fbx problem and found some things.It seems the problem is from the constraints.fbx is having some problems with it.So I unchecked contraints and skin definitions and I checked bake animation.Most of the problems have been solved except the body of the character was not exported cause I need to delete non deformer history but I don't get why when I delete non deformer history the mesh becomes transperent,only the wireframe shows.....wierd!!I would probably have to rebind and paint skin weights again cause copy weights isn't working when I tried to transfer skin weights to a duplicate.
Next problem is the camera still behaving funny.I don't know if this is due to the motion path it followed and then I animated the constraints to be off in order to use it for other camera shots.I noticed a little flip of the cape here and there but major progress.All this is after importing it into motionbuilder.
Funny,thing is I imported the fbx file into a new scene in Maya and everything works fine except for the missing character's body.I wonder why the camera is not behaving well in motionbuilder.