Baking Animation to Skeletal?

Kjohnston

I am curious if there is a way in max to bake morph/vertex animations into skeletal animations? Ive been searching via Google, and haven't turned up anything is this even possible? I have a Catapult to use in this game engine ive been working on but it only supports skeletal animations, I ran a reactor sim on it and baked it to vertex animations but i need it in skeletal...any help or a point in the right direction would be awesome. Thanks in advance guys

Piflik

Link some helpers to the catapult via Attachment Constraints (or Script Controllers). Bake their trajectories and use them to drive bones...Skin you Catapult to the ones...might work for easy animations...

MoP

Yeah, it really depends on the complexity of your animation.

Would it be difficult to just make a new simple rig of bones and use the same Reactor sim setup to bake the animation to the bones instead of to the mesh?

Mark Dygert

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66993

I suggest using Jim Jaggers Align Animated script to align and key the bones to the attachment constrained points.

warby

i only know of scripts that will generate a bone PER vertex which is hugely inefficient !

Kjohnston

Awsome Vig, that was precisely what I was looking for, ended up using your cloth tutorial with helpers and constraints to generate the bone animation, Perfect. Thanks for the help