Suggestions for Games Rig

[drone3]

Hi all,

i'm currently using the anzovins tsm rig for animation- which has been really great. However, I'm now doing a bit of games work and the rig can't be brought into the game engine, for whatever reason. Any suggestions for an off the shelf rig that will work nicely with maya and game engines.

thanks in advance! 

[joojaa]

What game engine are you targetting for. Most if not All game engines need the rig to be massaged so it will fit into their pipe. Such as baking certain stuff out firt and so on.

[drone3]

its for unity 3d. i was able to get the character into the engine with fbx/ baked animation, but i think it has something to do with the controllers that are used in TSM, that made my mesh freak out.

[daikath]

I always thought you made animations in Maya, with maya specific controllers and systems, and then baked in the movements in the joint chain to the geometry. So any game engine would just need to support geometry and joints (and blendshapes).

[joojaa]

TThats what you mostly do yes.

[css_maya]

did you try my Script ? Advanced biped setup, by using this script u'll have two separate bone system, one with controls to animate that have multi root system, and one boundary rig that is simple bone chain and all the limbs are parented in hierarchy. most of the time people use nodes for controlling the rig and that can be the problem when you want to import the rig to game engine because the engine will not understand the nodes! so i suggest using my script, doing animation with control rig and then connect boundary to control and bake animation on the boundary and export it.