Animating in Maya with Control Rigs, Baking, and Exporting into Brawlbox

[Large Leader]

I've tried animating this:
-Start at standing position
-Lying back in the air (going into back flip)
-Complete the spin and land

But it seems to do this:
-Start at standing position
-Lying back in the air
-Go back to frame one, by swinging in the same direction that you went up (like a seesaw)

Also, where would I add Swords or other projectiles/items to the control rig?

[KingJigglypuff]

But now that I exported it, the rotations of certain bones are off. It only exported the X Rotations for my character's tail and wing bones.

Hoping I can get some help with this. Since it's a huge pain to have to manually animate the wings and tail again in BrawlBox.

[Eternal Yoshi]

Very weird. Have you checked those bones in the graph editor to see if the other Axis' are keyed properly?

[KingJigglypuff]

Very weird. Have you checked those bones in the graph editor to see if the other Axis' are keyed properly?

I was checking to make sure I had everything set, but then my Maya crashed (and I forgot to save), so I lost the Animation. :\

But I'll try making another Animation and doing that in the future.

[Eternal Yoshi]

I was checking to make sure I had everything set, but then my Maya crashed (and I forgot to save), so I lost the Animation. :\

But I'll try making another Animation and doing that in the future.

Agghh. That sucks.
Take it from me, when you finish an animation, save the scene as a backup BEFORE you bake it, then bake it and save that as a separate scene. It's always good to have a backup of your animation in case things like this happen.

[KingJigglypuff]

Agghh. That sucks.
Take it from me, when you finish an animation, save the scene as a backup BEFORE you bake it, then bake it and save that as a separate scene. It's always good to have a backup of your animation in case things like this happen.

Though something I should specify is that I animated the tail and wings though the Outlier, since they weren't used in the IK Control Rig at all.

[Eternal Yoshi]

If the wing and tail bones weren't used in the IK Rig, then it's meaningless to bake those bones.

[KingJigglypuff]

If the wing and tail bones weren't used in the IK Rig, then it's meaningless to bake those bones.

Oh.

Alright.

I'll give that a go then.

Would I also not bake the TopN, TransN, XRotN, YRotN, HaveN, and ThrowN bones?

[Spex130]

Generally speaking, if you didn't touch the bone you don't need to bake it.

More specifically, all of those bones are of the type that you will never need to bake, excepting the TransN. If you did movement using the TransN, bake it. Otherwise, you're good.

[Large Leader]

Quick question (or long question...)

How would I make the last frame of the animation I made, the first frame of a new animation I want to make?

I tried selecting the whole model's joints ik thingy and deleting all the keyframes before the last frame, but that ended up doing... something. Which made it so I couldn't rotate/translate/scale/do anything with the IK skeleton thing.

So what exactly would I do to solve my problem?

[KingJigglypuff]

Quick question (or long question...)

How would I make the last frame of the animation I made, the first frame of a new animation I want to make?

I tried selecting the whole model's joints ik thingy and deleting all the keyframes before the last frame, but that ended up doing... something. Which made it so I couldn't rotate/translate/scale/do anything with the IK skeleton thing.

So what exactly would I do to solve my problem?

Copy the keyframe of the last Frame, then paste it over the first Frame. Then delete all keyframes in between.

[Large Leader]

Copy the keyframe of the last Frame, then paste it over the first Frame. Then delete all keyframes in between.

That's what I did.

The aforementioned problem still occurred.

[KingJigglypuff]

That's what I did.

The aforementioned problem still occurred.

Don't select all the bones. Just select one bone from the IK rig.

[Large Leader]

Don't select all the bones. Just select one bone from the IK rig.

Awesome that worked.

[yadayada]

Simple question: Do we actually need Brawlbox v.68 and v.69, or will the latest version suffice for what is needed in this tutorial?