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1. Re: 3DSMAX to Unity 3D

   

   Reply by gsokol · Aug 2015 · Home› Unity

   Yeah, what Eric said. You can import vertex animation, but you are literally storing the position of every vert for every frame, so the file size gets huge. I've had to deal with point cache animations at a past company, many of the animation files were a few gigabytes each and frequently caused crashes. Is there a…

2. Re: 3DSMAX to Unity 3D

   

   Reply by Obscura · Aug 2015 · Home› Unity

   Eric - This is new to me. I know you can make animation without bones in a modeling package, but I thought you can use anims only with bones, morphs, or shader vertex offset. Why this isn't really used in games? Whats the downside of using this?

3. Re: 3DSMAX to Unity 3D

   

   Reply by andreinojosa · Aug 2015 · Home› Unity

   Hey man, thank you alot for your insight! Nah, the only modifier is the SKIN. I guessed that it was "normal" to export the mesh and that the bones kind of had to come together to "sustain" the animation into the mesh. That´s why i created this topic, to find a way to bring the animated mesh without the bones, so by doing…

4. Re: 3DSMAX to Unity 3D

   

   Reply by echofourpapa · Aug 2015 · Home› Unity

   You can animate non-skinned objects, if they have keyframes.

5. Re: 3DSMAX to Unity 3D

   

   Reply by echofourpapa · Aug 2015 · Home› Unity

   Also, if you can't get the bones to export as non geometry, just remove their mesh components in the Prefab in Unity. The animations only need the transform.

6. Re: 3DSMAX to Unity 3D

   

   Reply by Eric Chadwick · Aug 2015 · Home› Unity

   Look up "point cache" in the 3ds Max help file, it will show you how to bake any mesh animation into a cache file, which is what that Unity tool needs.

7. 3DSMAX to Unity 3D

   

   Topic by andreinojosa · Aug 2015 · Home› Unity

   Hello boys and girls! After looking a bit on the foruns and found nothing i would like to know if it is possible to bake an animation to a mesh?? Im asking because it would be beautifull to be able to do so in that way when i export the fbx file to the game Engine(Unity) i don´t bring with the mesh the bone polygons.…

8. Re: 3DSMAX to Unity 3D

   

   Reply by Obscura · Aug 2015 · Home› Unity

   If you want complex animation then I don't think there is a way without bones. Showing the animation would help to see if it can be done without bones in Unity.

9. Re: 3DSMAX to Unity 3D

   

   Reply by Obscura · Aug 2015 · Home› Unity

   Thanks. I think this kind of anim can be done in other ways too in a game engine. The flag example can be easily done with a vertex offset shader. I don't know if it would be any cheaper, but maybe. I thought it is not used in games, because I never met with it yet in an engine. Like even in Unity its an extension.

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    Reply by andreinojosa · Aug 2015 · Home› Unity

    So i guess for me is a no work, i was thinking i could use for a walk cycle or somenthing but i guess this plugin is more of a morph animation type. I guess then i can´t use animations cycles like run, walk etc without bones.... Thank you guys, if you have ideas please let me know.