Export Blend Shape Animation

[ibax]

Hi All!

I have a big-big problem. I have an animation, made by blend shape. Now I want to export this animation into a .x (directx) format. But I did not find a really functionable "blend-shape-to-x" converter. There are many maya-to-x converters, but you can't use them for blend shape, only for normal animation.
I tried with Deep Exploration, but no results.

A think, the problem is the blend shape. Deep Exploration can convert from many types to many types (maya too), but it is for nothing, if you used a blend shape in your animation.

Is there any way, how to convert a blend shape animation into a "normal" animation??
I think this is the only solution for this problem, because after that "bland-shape" to "normal-anim" replacing my Deep Exploration will convert the anim.

Is it wright? Or is there another trick??

thx for the answers
ibax (hungary)

[joojaa]

Bake it down.

Anwyy this kindof demonstrates to you, the slightly myoptic view you have on games animation. The x format is not a all in all format no format is, because each engine is different. Even the fact that direct x is rendering engine don't make the x format anything in any game.

if you want to export evetrything you can ever imagine you need to have your oen engine and own exporter

[ibax]

my only question is, that is it possible to replace my blend-shape animation with an animation, where the only thing, what is changing, is the position of vertices.
because deep exploration (and other XExporters) does not recognize an animation, if it is made by blend shape.

[joojaa]

Yes its called baking to quite myself:

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Bake it down.

go to edit menu and find the keys submenu and appluy bake simulation with cvs option turned on. Howevre it will be very very heavy so you may not actually want to do that for that reasdon.

[ibax]

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go to edit menu and find the keys submenu and appluy bake simulation

thx, it works. I removed the blend shape. but I still have a problem. in my deep exploration there is only the object, again, without the animation. I think, deep exploration will not work, if I use deform animations in my scene.

maybe I should convert to another type, not straight to .x type.

is somebody, who knows a good converter (not Deep Exploration) to another format? for example to .3ds, etc.

[ibax]

maybe the problem is, that it is hard to export deform animations to another file types. maybe the .x type does not support deform animations. I don't knom...

so I think I should look for that file type, which supports deform animations, and I can convert my scene to that file type.

is somebody here, who knows a file type, supporting deform animations??

[ibax]

is there a file type, which supports deform animations, and it is not called .ma or .mb (I mean maya file types)??