Looking for an Expert (or someone capable) in Maya and Unity.

Hellgnome

Ok, So I am in too deep:

I am supposed to make something that does this (see links), when you move the model In unity:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgcMZ-jpkGT/ 

My idea at the moment.

Make the model in Maya, rig and skin it in Maya, then send it to Unity.

But how do I make a Rig in Maya, where you can move the bone, and then all the ligaments movements follows realistically. (It will consist of several parts- Bone and 5 to 12 ligaments.).
Plus! there cannot be any clipping, no part of any of the models may go through each other, so it shall practically work as if it was Real.

And when everything works in Maya, I am supposed to get it all into unity:
Model, Rig, Skin-weights and perhaps deformers too.

Then send it to Unity, and make it into a prefab.
And then someone else shall be able to load the prefab into any unity scene, and then be able to move the bones in real-time, and have the ligaments move realistically.

I don´t need an explanation on how to do this, what I really need, is recommendation on what tools to use in Maya, to do this.
And then ideas on where I can find information, to help take such a thing into Unity, and make it into a prefab etc.

poopipe

I don't have an answer but you're approaching the problem backwards.  - hopefully this will at least prevent you doing a load of work and then hitting a blocker. 

Rigging something that behaves in this way in Maya is a long solved problem with a wide variety of solutions. 
Getting this to work as you describe in unity is not a long solved problem and will require a clever (likely custom) solution.

The Unity part will determine how you build your Maya rig so you need to start by working out what Unity's capabilities are

Hellgnome

poopipe said:

I don't have an answer but you're approaching the problem backwards.  - hopefully this will at least prevent you doing a load of work and then hitting a blocker. 

Rigging something that behaves in this way in Maya is a long solved problem with a wide variety of solutions. 
Getting this to work as you describe in unity is not a long solved problem and will require a clever (likely custom) solution.

The Unity part will determine how you build your Maya rig so you need to start by working out what Unity's capabilities are

This is exactly the kind of the feedback, that I was looking for. (Would have been nice with a solution too, but this is still very very useful).

As you say, doing this in Maya is pretty straight forward, getting it into Unity is a whole different story. 
(Yesterday I had a talk with one of my old Maya tutors, and he kinda said the same).

And I am really greatfull for your comment, because my plan (if no one answered me), was to just do it in Maya, using a rig, paint some skin-weights, add some deformers, and maby using some softbody fx etc. But as you mentiond, that might have been a lot of work, to just find out, that most of it does not even translate over to Unity. 

So I´ll try to see, if I find out how to solve the Unity part, and if it is even possible in Unity.
Guess the unity forums is the place for that.

Thank you so much.