Blender rig exporter/animation importer

[ScriptOn (Genya)]

Are your Motors all parented to their Part1?

[Den_S]

Can you send both the place file you used + the obj you exported from it?
What @ScriptOn said is also true, the plugin only seeks for motors in either their Part1 or Part0 (but probably does not cause that issue).

[ScriptOn (Genya)]

Btw I’d like to thank you for the importer. I was able to use the base importer to help me convert roblox animations (and thus, mocap/blender animations) into my animation editor:

What are you working on currently? (2017)

@Bluay and I have been working to get blender animations working properly. I got the framework all set up and he did the fancy animating. Last gif I posted was of an M16 animation pasted on the M14, but this time we got an animation specifically for the M14 so it doesn’t look weird: [image] Shoutout to @Den_S for making the blender -> roblox importer so that I could make the roblox -> ScriptOn Animator importer.

[Den_S]

Thanks! It’s really cool to see it being used in practice .

[nomer888 (nomer)]

When I export an animation, load it into the plugin, and export, poses are being created in every keyframe for bones that were not modified throughout the entire animation, thus freezing them.

I don’t remember this happening just yesterday, did I do something to cause that or is this intentional and I just missed it?

[Den_S]

That’s normal, I haven’t added a way to disable certain bones yet (like those checkboxes next to the bones in the Roblox animation editor).

You can open the animation (or generated KeyframeSequence) in the Roblox animation editor and disable bones you don’t want, though. Or if it’s useful to add it to the plugin itself I can probably do that too short-term.

[Veov_Ekdosi]

Any reason why I can’t use the plug in? It keeps freezing my studio.

[Dapale]

@GollyGreg

With some tinkering, I’ve been able to import custom BVH (motion capture) files into blender and impose them onto a robloxian R15 rig. Meaning we no longer have to rely on mixamo animations and can now create our own actions.

I’ll be posting a Youtube video shortly.

Did this ever happen? I would really like to know!

[Veov_Ekdosi]

Same here.

[SPACEDUDZ]

https://gyazo.com/7f374e46ae5a8dba7d503138bfb803ee
Works very nicely!

[HuotChu]

FYI: From the Mixamo site…

On August 22, 2017, the following assets and services will be removed from the Mixamo site.

1. The ability to save and retrieve assets in “My Assets”.
2. The Face Plus facial animation plugin
3. The Decimator polygon reduction tool
4. The ability to download Control-rig scripts
5. Download types for .bvh and .biped that streamline integration with 3rd party applications
6. Mixamo forums will close and all help articles will be moved to Adobe’s HelpX

[ChadTheCreator]

Are you guys using pre-made animations in mocap or making your own mocap animations?

If you’re using mocap, what product? If not, where’d you find the animations?

[buildthomas]

https://www.mixamo.com/

Hit “Animations” at the top

[unix_system]

someone download all of these and upload on mega, pls

[buildthomas]

This is the internet, it would be weird if someone hasn’t already done that (not necessarily someone from Roblox)

[Bluay]

One thing that I hope you guys add (or is already there) is the ability to work with multiple ROBLOX rigs at once. I want to be able to animate things like 2 guys fighting, or something like that. Any way to work with those multiple rigs?

[Den_S]

You could import + generate one rig, rename the __Rig and __RigMeta objects to something else (postfix a 2 or so), then import another rig. The plugin always looks for those objects by name when importing/generating/exporting, but you can animate both rigs simultaneously in Blender just fine with different names. Just rename it back when exporting.

[AllYourBlox]

I just tried this whole process tonight, following the YouTube Tutorial linked above, and it’s so close to working. But somehow, I’m losing the critical location data from the animation when trying to apply the Mixamo-generated .fbx file in Blender to the rig. The Mixamo file has all the location and rotation information, as you can see in the clip below. The stick figure on the left is the Mixamo .fbx rig file imported with File->Import->FBX. But if I try to apply it to my character (R15 block mode imported via Import Model and Rebuild rig) with “Import FBX” from the RBX add-on, or if I name the correctly-imported rig to __Rig2 and use “Map keyframes by bone name”, I get the same results: all location information is lost and the Roblox character animates with their HumanoidRootPart and LowerTorso fixed in space. Where am I going wrong?

https://i.gyazo.com/8dc0f8467d8b132e24c5fee12635bc48.mp4

[Den_S]

You have to map the HumanoidRootPart to the Mixamo Root joint (in Mixamo).
In Roblox, HRP is static in animations (the root), which the built-in mapping function also enforces.

(the neon green is the HRP)

[AllYourBlox]

Ah yes, I forgot to mention a key detail. As best I can tell, Mixamo no longer has this feature. “My Assets” is gone from the site, and the fbx auto-rigger is full auto, no manual adjustments. In fact, I was only able to get it to accept and animate the armature alone; any attempt I made to include mesh data in my FBX caused the autorigger to hang.