You can bake, or collapse as max calls it, animation on bones that have IK on them. Select the IK handle, open up the Motion Panel and go into Trajectories. From here, you can specify how long your animation is and how many samples you want. Pretty sure you can only do this for IKed bone chains though, which sucks. I wish…
thanks, I'm not sure if I have the settings wrong but I can't get that to work. If I select the bones and ik to export, bringing it back in keys the bones but they are motionless, and a helper object with the same movement as the ik is imported too- if I export just the bones, they import back in with no keys. it seems…
something we've been doing a fair bit in work with maya is animating models with various constraints and ik chains, and baking down the animation to bone rotation. I was wondering if anyone knows of a similar feature/plugin/script in max?