Copy/paste from one scene to another

[bonibo]

i have an animation in one scene. now, i would like to copy the character's end-pose (translate-xyz & rotate-xyz data) to another scene onto the same character.

how do i do this? is there a script or plugin?

[nonquad]

Not just a plugin. It's a built in feature.

This kind of stuff is handled by the trax editor. Trax provides a way to organize animation segments and blend seamlessly between them. It can also store poses. The animation snip data is kept in a separate archive window called the visor.

I'm a novice with trax myself, but I'll wager that you can probably export/import animation/pose nodes just like anything else. I'm kind of in a rush right now though, so I'll have to let someone more qualified fill you in on the details.

Only one word of warning: your character needs to have a character set to use trax. If he doesn't, you are going to have to be very careful to set up his character set exactly the same in both scenes, so that you don't run into any trouble transfering the animation. Trax provides ways to transfer data between dissimilar character sets, but it's messy....

[tinus]

this should work:

in your plugin manager load: animImportExport.mll
(this put's the result of the copy command in your graph editor on the clip board!)

select your object you want to copy keys from;
in the graph editor; edit/copy (only select the object not the keys, in the graph editor;

open the scene you want to copy to;
select the same object!! again only the root of the object in the graph editor; then paste from graph editor(default settings)

well I tested this with a simple sphere and it worked;

in your case, delete the keys you don't need and you should have what you want

good luck!

[thematt]

DuH...............
i've been trying to export simple anim few weeks ago and I messed up with tons of stuff..can't beleive it's that simple where the hell is this written in the manual...????

thanks for the tip that work great

[tinus]

well I actually got the trick from the dvd that was shipped with maya 4; some french studio that gave a speech about their pipeline (french people should not be allowed to speak english!
anyway.. that was probably the only thing i learned from the dvd (not that I'm that good..)

do a search on: animImportExport
i think it's under general animation

but it really sucks i didn't know this earlier!!!
thanks alot AW

[joojaa]

Tinus isnt your ast comments a bit too thick? You cant expect to know everything all the time now can you... But im suurised that you didnt use trax to do this instead?

[thematt]

Ok that's true I agree still I'm french and I speak fairly alright engish..I'm working on my accent everyday..my girlfriend is half english....so it help.

hey hey

I'll do a search to see if I missed it in the manual. that's funny.
As jooja said I ended up using the trax but it was that easy since it was just on a blend shape.

cheers

[tinus]

Hi,
it wasn't my intention to hurt somebody's feelings with my remark about french speaking english, it was just a joke!..
so please don't be offended!

I didn't know you were french matt, so I guess that's a compliment to you

say hello to your girlfriend from me!

cheers!

[joojaa]