mechanical animation in maya to Unreal4

Norw

Hello, i'm looking for a way to export my animation from maya to unreal4 the twist is that my rig is made from a couple of mesh that are parent to the joints. So when i export in unreal my mesh does not move. 

thanks for any help in advance

GlowingPotato

Hi,

You need to Skin and paint weights so unreal can interpret the mesh as a skeletal mesh.

GO here first -> https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Maya-CharacterAnimation/files/GUID-66922B35-A848-4161-BFCF-4EB75413702E-htm.html

And here -> https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Content/Types/SkeletalMeshes

Norw

is there no way that i can just bake the animation on maya and on unreal it just play it. I dont want to be able to modify the animation in unreal i just want it to play? my mesh as 600+ individual part and painting skin weigth on every single one will be a long time 

my rig resemble this guy rig in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7kc0geXHJY

sorry new ton unreal4 btw 

GlowingPotato

I don't think its possible to export animations to unreal without a skeletal mesh. Right now, unreal does not support vertex animation data from FBX files.

There is support for morph target though.

Have a look at this thread.  https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/content-creation/491-vertex-animated-fbx

GlowingPotato

Also, you should be able to script a small tool to skin each mesh to its parent bone. 

throttlekitty

I don't know unreal, but here's the most straightforward result I found, no clue if it's out of date. But I'd be surprised if there's much more to simple transform animations, there shouldn't be a need for skinning or blendshapes.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/content-creation/16184-question-importing-rigid-body-animation-through-maya
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/content-creation/7020-is-it-possible-to-import-a-mesh-with-an-animation-made-in-a-3dpackage-without-skel