Bakeing Dynamics

[themusaeus]

Hi!

I'm having problems with baking a dynamics simulation!

My goal is to get all the transformation generated through the simulation converted into keyframes!

It''s a cube falling with gravity...

I tried the Edit > Keys > Bake Simulation, this works on all the channels except the "rotation" and "translate" attributes. They remain connected to the rigidBody_tx node, and no matter what i do, i can't seem to get them baked!

I really need to get those channels ("translate and rotation converted into keyframes, so it would be of great help if anyone knew just how to do that!!!

[bjohnston]

After baking, delete rigid bodies. They are still probably calculating after baking unless you delete them.

[bradon]

yes im trying to do the same thing... as you say select rigid bodies and delete them it seems that maya does not allow you to do this. it also looks like the transform node passes through the rigid body node. so deleting it would disconnect your baked keyframes (not good).

any other suggestions on how to bake out a simulation then delete any notion of a rigid body solver or connection to the object?