Import animated camera from Max

[gary]

I'm new to Unigine so might be missing something obvious here.
I'm having trouble importing an animated camera from Max. I've baked the animation and exported the .fbx file which works fine when imported back into Max.

The camera imports fine into Unigine but no animation.

Any suggestions? 

[silent]

Hi Gary,

 

Unfortunately, there is no method to export animation without bones from FBX file yet. If you are using 3ds Max 2015 (or 2013/2014) you can export spline transformations via Path export and use it later with WorldTransformPath object.

 

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

[trey.coursey]

Are you saying there isn't a method for Unigine to READ the exported camera...because there certainly is a specification for FBX to hold camera information.  We do it in Lightwave.  If there currently isn't support for this can it be suggested somewhere.  I think it would be a welcomed feature for many.  I'm having a terrible time getting the tracker to save keyframes for my dummy camera at the moment!

[silent]

Hi Trey,

Do you have an FBX with animated camera path example that can be viewed in some kind of 3rd party software like FBX Reivew? Probably we can do something with it in the future updates.

As far as I remember, FBX doesn't contain any camera path, just the initial positions and parameters (but I need to double check this).

Thanks!

[trey.coursey]

On 7/17/2018 at 12:18 AM, silent said:

Hi Trey,

Do you have an FBX with animated camera path example that can be viewed in some kind of 3rd party software like FBX Reivew? Probably we can do something with it in the future updates.

As far as I remember, FBX doesn't contain any camera path, just the initial positions and parameters (but I need to double check this).

Thanks!

Yes I'll check on my end/software.  I see camera as an option to export but you may be correct, it may only be portions of the camera properties.    Really struggling with creating good animation camera moves in Unigine thus far in my testing.  I'll start another thread on camera movements in Unigine.  Thanks!

[trey.coursey]

Here are two different exports from Lightwave with Camera and Baked Animations enabled.  One is Binary the other is Asci.  Let me know what you find out.

test-camera-bake.fbx

test-camera-bake-asci.fbx

[silent]

Hi Trey,

Thanks for the FBX. Indeed, FBX contains keyframes for camera movements. Will see what we can do here prior to 2.8 SDK Update.

[silent]

Hi Trey,

Unfortunately, in 2.8 SDK we will not able to implement automatic camera import via FBX, sorry. Animation improvement are planned for the future releases (maybe next year).

The right solution will be to animate camera directly via Tracker. If there any issues with Tracker itself - please, feel free to report them in a new topics.

Thanks! 

[favre.nicolas]

Hi,

 

Is there still no solution to bring a Camera from Max to Unigine ? Except the solution with WorldTransformPath  ? This solution only work for position not rotation right ?
When I import my Camera from max to Unigine with .Fbx I loose the animation.

Thanks !

[silent]

There is a solution for Blender: 

More general approach will be available in the Engine in the future releases.

[werner.poetzelberger]

I still think, that this is a convinient method ;).

Just attach a camera in UNIGINE.

What you think?

 

Edited November 24, 2020 by werner.poetzelberger

[rohit.gonsalves]

Dear @werner.poetzelberger,

You are awesome.  Never looked at this skinned Bone object. In morning, my content artist friend and me were discussing about it. By end of the day, your post lead the way.

The small cube is attached with Upper arm animation. Bingo Bingo.

Regards,

Rohit

Edited November 24, 2020 by rohit.gonsalves

[werner.poetzelberger]

Thank you so much Rohit for your kind words. I am glad, that the 'old trick' did lead you in the right direction.

All the best. Werner