Merging trax clips simular to merge anim layers smart bake?

[ldunham1]

is it possible to do a smart merge of trax clips, in a simular way the merge anim layers smart bake works?

for instance, we have 2 anim clips in trax editor, we want to be able to merge them into one clip to the activate the keys and directly edit them. so far we cant seem to be able to do this, the only alternative to achive this requires merging the clips, activating the keys then simplify curve. We want to be able to preserve the keys that are in the original clips, not bake to every frame.

Cheers

Lee 

[joojaa]

Yes and no. The questions leading and leads to no, however there's nothing that says that your leading no can not be a clear yes. There are several issues involved that make baking the only sure way to make it work, if you don't want to limit the things  that you can do. However baking does NOT preclude the end result you want. It us possible to hint the cleanup process to keep points in certain frames and kill others, this is a what i suspect the smart bake does.

So now that we have the question if its possible or not of the way there remains a question of can you do it inside maya with current tool set without a hustle? Then the answer is depends, certainly you can do it because i have been doing just this since maya 7.0 however my solution is not such that you can use it and im not really using anything newer than maya 2009 now. But is the existing tool set such that you could slave it over, dont know i haven't got a need for this but ill take a quick look at this.