Bake skin animation?

[ovni]

I'm wondering if it's possible to bake skin animation so that if you delete the bone heirarchy it will still animate.

The reason I ask is because I am trying to get my animation from Maya to Max. Using Deep Exploration, the animation of the joints ports over flawlessly, except that the Skin isn't attached to the skeleton in Max and just sits there. I figured if I could bake the animation of the skin in Maya before I export, it would show up in Max exactly as it is in Maya.

Any thoughts?

[ovni]

Well, I figured it out but it didn't work. Any suggestions on how to get my animation into Max? I don't need to edit it once it's there. I'm working on a game and I can't STAND max, but unfortunately the exporters to the game engine only work for Max.

Any help would be appreciated.

[radhamadhava]

I'm having the exact same issues for the same reasons. My game engine exporter only works for max. There is a great animation baker for Maya intended for baking cloth, but works for anything: http://www.highend3d.com/maya/mel/?section=cloth#2184

Now, getting that baked animation into Max is the next problem. I tried using the FBX export/import plugins http://www.kaydara.com for Maya and Max but it seems to only work with boned animation. Although it does seem to work with objects in Maya parented to bones via the link tool.

Is there an animation baker for Max?

Anybody got any ideas?