[maya/UDK] Converting ncloth to bones

Kratilim

Hey guys,

I've been able to create a looping ncloth in maya and I've created a bone chain that is going to be the rig used to animate the flag with. But as soon as I keyframe the bones they no longer listen to the rivets I've used to transfer the movement.

Does anyone have any idea how I can keyframe or export the animation so I can use it in UDK?



Thanks!

passerby

why not just bone ans skin it up, and not animate in maya, and just use udk's cloth sim, to do the rest.

Kratilim

passerby wrote: »

why not just bone ans skin it up, and not animate in maya, and just use udk's cloth sim, to do the rest.

Because it costs performance, and by doing it this way, I have full control over the animation. That and this technique works with every engine that supports joint based animation instead of relying on cloth simulation.

Denny

You could duplicate your bone chain, add constraints between the original and the duplicate and key the duplicate for export. Add _ignore as suffix to the original chain to exclude it from export.

Otherwise, if you key the original chain, look in the attributes if you get a "blend something" attribute. When you key a constrained object the constrain is turned off by default, could be a similar issue here.

(found this post via Google searching for something else so thought I'd reply anyway)

claydough

have you tried baking keyframes?

the7347

someone help me, how I can achieve converting ncloth to bones