Character Must Be Facing The Positive Z Axis

[chriscurra]

I am exporting a character out of Maya into Motionbuilder. The character is facing the positive z axis, and when it comes into Motion builder it is also facing the positive z axis but it still bitches about it not facing in that direction. I assume it is looking at the joint orients in Maya?? so I orient them all facing positive z and Motionbuilder still bitches..

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris

[tzanti]

Something in the back of my head says that Mb Z-axis and Maya Z-axis aren't the same. In fact, doesn't exporting Mb to Maya involve a subsequent rotation of -90x 180y to get into the proper orientation? Now, I'm a couple of versions behind (ver5.5) so this might have changed, otherwise try unrolling that global rotation (180y +90x? my cartesian arithmetic sucks don't it?) first then export it.

Good Luck, as this is an old post I imagine you solved it already.

T.