Soft body bake?

pigmaster

Hello everybody. I can't figure out how to bake simulation into keys and then export it as FBX? And can't really seem to find instructions or tutorials about it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txCEFwvsnAQ

How do I export something like that as fbx with all vertexes simulated?

Apologizes for low level of knowledge... 

Eric Chadwick

You can't export secondary animation like this to FBX. You could bake the simulation into bones, but it would be a mess to use in another app.

The jiggle is best animated in the target renderer... are you exporting to a game engine?

Neox

it is not really basic knowledge, sooo what do you want to do? what is your target of this softbody animation?

pigmaster

I was planning to use maya soft-body to add like a thin layer of fat on thighs, butt cheeks. It looked really nice... silly me thought it would be easy to do... only after hours later did I figure out you need joints to control any vertex movement? Yes... I was planning to use it in unity/unreal...

Is there any easy tutorials or instructions around how to bake soft-body through joints? Like whole process simplified and detailed...

Eric Chadwick

Baking is better if you plan to render a non-interactive movie, and you want to reduce the CPU overhead to make the scene render faster. Then you would just render it in Maya or Max or Blender or wherever.

But if you're using a game engine, then you want the jiggle to react in real-time to the character's motion. Not be baked.

https://unity3d.com/search?gq=jiggle
https://unity3d.com/search?gq=soft body
https://unity3d.com/search?gq=secondary motion
etc.

pigmaster

Thank you very much! This info helped quite a lot, started looking at engine doing those things I wanted, jiggle etc, found out about unreals spring joints too that doe similar effect nicely.