Problem with mocap and baked animation cleaning

[miabe]

hi!

I desperately try to clean some mocap/baked animation data in maya but can't get it to work the way I need it.
the simplify curve function in maya give strange results and I can't figure out, how to control it. I'm looking for a way to simply tell maya to leave the keyframe every # frames and to leave it if a values difference is less than #, and remove it otherwise. the simplify curve option seems to rebuild the curve and move the key to non integer values, even when I want to remove only the adjacent keys with exactely the same values.
I tried all the cleaning scripts from the highend mel section but without success. the keykleanwin script sounds good but I can't get it to work. (-Cannot find procedure "RS_KleanKeys"- when I press the kleankeys button)
any ideas?

cu mia

[miabe]

hm, no suggestions at all? :hmm:
is there maybe a script guru out there who has some free time and feels like checking on this RS_KleanKeys mel script? unfortunately the given email adress of the author doesn't work anymore...
it can be found here:

http://www.highend3d.com/files/dl.3d?group...mp;file\_id=1128

thanks mia

[nonquad]

The default maya curve rebuilding is... eh... sufficient but no more.

However it should be able to do what you are asking; rebuild based on time and/or value tolerances. You may want to turn off the dense data option -- I am not entirely sure how that affects the process, but it's more straightforward without.

Now. If you are still set on using the script, it sounds like you just haven't made it clear to maya where to find the function.

When all goes well, you can usually just drop the script in the scripts folder and maya will find it on its own, without you having to explicitly source it.

IE, if you type in
niftyscript;

Maya is going to search its folder (by default, something like C:program filesmaya4.5scripts) for a file named niftyscript.mel, and if that file exists, it will search that file for a function named niftyscript(), and execute that function.

But as you can see, if the function does not reside in a file of the same name, maya won't find it on its own. That's when you have to load the file explicitly, through a command called source.

For example, if you needed to run a command called "goober" from a file named "niftyscript.mel" you would type:

source "C:/mel/niftyscript.mel"; // goober;

[miabe]

hey nonquad!

thanks you took the time to give such a detailed answer
the simlpify curve toll has it's own will. I really spent a lot of time with it it inserts key where it shouldn't and rebuilds the curve completely.
the script: it put it in every maya script folder on my system without any success. I have to source it to start it but when I press the button in the script I get the error.
could it be that it is made fro maya3 only and does not work with newer versions?

thanks again mia

[nonquad]

ok. I tried it myself and got it to work like so:

The KleanKeys proc needs to be defined before the part of the script that calls it (I think the author may have packed this rather hastily, or intended the end-user to copy/paste stuff to his shelf manually before use). That, and, changed it from a proc to a global proc. The rest of the script is not set up as a proc, so it's easiest to just run by sourcing.

I don't really feel like tossing files around, so I'm just going to dump the text here.

Word of warning in advance though: I gave the script a test run, and it showed a marked tendency to chop off the peaks of curves. You'll probably need to find something else anyway.

global proc RS_KleanKeys()
{
string $RS_KKS[]=ls -sl;
string $RS_KCur; int $RS_KCnt=0; int $RS_KCnt2=0;
string $RS_KChans[]; string $RS_KChan;
string $RS_KK_Substitutions[];
string $RS_KK_Substitute; int $RS_KK_KeyedChs[];
int $RS_KK_NOC;
int $RS_K_i;
int $RS_q;
float $RS_KK_TC;
float $RS_KK_OK;
float $RS_KK_NK;
float $RS_K_Keys[];
float $RS_KK_OKs[];
int $RS_Int;
float $RS_KK_Factor = textField -q -tx RS\_K\_Pres;
float $RS_KK_ReFactor = 1/$RS_KK_Factor;
if (1 > $RS_KK_Factor)
{
for ($RS_KCur in $RS_KKS)
{
$RS_KChans = keyframe -name -q $RS\_KCur;
for ($RS_KChan in $RS_KChans)
{
$RS_KK_Substitute = substitute ($RS\_KCur+"\_") $RS\_KChan "";
$RS_KChans[$RS_KCnt] = $RS_KK_Substitute;
$RS_KCnt = $RS_KCnt +1;
}
$RS_KK_KeyedChs[$RS_KCnt2] = $RS_KCnt;
$RS_KCnt=0;
for ($RS_K_i = 0; $RS_K_i {
$RS_KK_NOC = keyframe -at $RS\_KChans[$RS\_K\_i] -q -keyframeCount $RS\_KCur;
for ($RS_q=0; $RS_q {
$RS_KK_OKs=keyframe -at $RS\_KChans[$RS\_K\_i] -in ($RS\_q) -q -vc $RS\_KCur;
$RS_Int=($RS_KK_OKs[0]*$RS_KK_ReFactor);
$RS_K_Keys[$RS_q] = ($RS_Int*$RS_KK_Factor);
}
for ($RS_q=$RS_KK_NOC-1; $RS_q >0; $RS_q--)
{
$RS_KK_OK = $RS_K_Keys[$RS_q-1];
$RS_KK_TC = $RS_K_Keys[$RS_q];
$RS_KK_NK = $RS_K_Keys[$RS_q+1];
if ($RS_KK_TC == $RS_KK_OK)
{
if ($RS_KK_TC == $RS_KK_NK)
{
cutKey -in $RS_q -at $RS_KChans[$RS_K_i] $RS_KCur;
}
}
}
}
}
}
else
{
print "Precision Too Highn";
}
}

if (window -ex RS\_KKWin == 1) deleteUI RS_KKWin;
window -title "Key Kleaner" -sizeable false RS_KKWin;
columnLayout;
setParent..;
frameLayout -cll false -lv false;
columnLayout -rs 10 -cat "both" 10;
text -align center -l "Decimal Places";
textField -text ".0001" RS_K_Pres;
button -l "Klean Keys" -c RS_KleanKeys RS_KKBut;
showWindow RS_KKWin;