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1. Maya Exporting object pivot location/orientation into Unity

   

   Topic by MrPie · Nov 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi guys, i'm a bit stuck on this situation. We have a rope with some bones attached to it that will be animated in Unity however i can't see to export the orientation of the pivot into unity. I tried testing it with a simple cube. I moved the pivot to a vertice on one of the corners and exported it as FBX into unity but…

2. Re: Maya Exporting object pivot location/orientation into Unity

   

   Reply by Mark Dygert · Nov 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   So there is a pretty big difference between a skinned and non-skinned mesh. So your test cube will need to be skinned to a joint in order for your testing to function. If it's a non skinned object, it will use the scene pivot as the objects pivot. Usually you have to move the object to the scene origin, export and then…

3. Re: Maya Exporting object pivot location/orientation into Unity

   

   Reply by MrPie · Nov 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi, sorry for the late reply. It's set to local.

4. Re: Maya Exporting object pivot location/orientation into Unity

   

   Reply by sprunghunt · Nov 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   do you have your unity move tool set to local or global pivots? 

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   Reply by MrPie · Nov 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks mark using your advice on the non skinned object worked and the object imported with the pivot at the corner vert. However i can't seem to get the same success with my skinned object. so this is the orientation of the pivots i would like my joints to have; but in unity i get this;