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Locating mount point with maya 2008

by Roshan Kuriyan · in Artist Corner · 11/27/2008 (1:14 am) · 3 replies

We are trying to export a Maya(Maya 2008) character with animation to Torque game engine(TGE 1.5.2).
The player file to ".dts" and the animation files to ".dsq".

We are able to import the character and the player animations and it works inside the game engine.


We have placed the mount point on the player's head,but when exporting the player, the mount point was defaulting to between the players legs and is not seen either in Show tool Pro OR inside the Game.
So please explain how a mount point is located in Maya 2008.

Can you please explain why this problem occurs?


Thanks & Regards,
Roshan.
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Torque Owner Dave MacIsaac
#1
11/27/2008 (12:02 pm)
Check your dump file see if the mount is exporting or if its being removed on Third pass
if so you must add it to you dtsScene.cfg/"model NAME".cfg file under "always-export "any mount node must retain its X.Y.Z info in space so make you mount node at 0.0.0 then move it to were it needs to go."DON'T FREEZE TRANSFORMS"!! on it..parent it to a bone wrist for gun or head in your case and export.

Torque Owner Stuart Bogle
#2
11/27/2008 (11:01 pm)
I had the same problem with my mount, cam, and eye nodes. The problem turned out that the empty group nodes that the exporter was creating were not working. I had to use geometry and name them mount, cam, and eye to get them to work in game.

FYI the exporter is VERY picky about how things are setup

Torque Owner Roshan Kuriyan
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#3
12/01/2008 (12:50 am)
Thanks to every one who took the time in replying . the mount problem got sorted out once the cfg files were installed .