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Maya FBX Plug-in Guide
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November 2006 Maya FBX Plug-in Guide
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Contents
1 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Windows installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Macintosh installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Linux installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Importing and Exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Exporting from Maya to an .fbx file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
FBX Exporter window options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Importing .fbx files into Maya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
FBX Importer window options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Whats supported in the Maya FBX plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Whats not supported in the Maya FBX plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Whats new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Known limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3 Maya MEL Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
FBXExport -f [filename] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
FBXExportShowUI -v [true|false] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
FBXExportHardEdges -v [true|false]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
FBXExportConstraints -v [true|false] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
FBXExportCharacter -v [true|false] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
FBXExportApplyConstantKeyReducer -v [true|false] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
FBXExportEmbeddedTextures -v [true|false]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
FBXExportQuaternion -v [quaternion|euler|resample] . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
FBXExportBakeComplexAnimation -v [true|false] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
FBXExportBakeComplexStart -v int . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Maya FBX Plug-in Guide
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FBXExportBakeComplexEnd -v int . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
FBXExportBakeComplexStep -v int . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
FBXResetExport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
FBXExportAxisConversionMethod [none|convertAnimation|addFbxRoot] 42
FBXExportUpAxis [y|z] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
FBXExportScaleFactor value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
FBXConvertUnitString [mm|cm|m|km|in|ft |yd|mi] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
FBXExportCacheFile v [true|false] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
FBXExportEdgeSmoothing v [true|false] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
FBXExportQuickSelectSetAsCache v setName . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
FBXExportQuickSelectSetAsCache q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
FBXImportAxisConversionEnable v [true|false] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
FBXImportScaleFactorEnable v [true|false] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
FBXImportScaleFactor value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
FBXImportUpAxis [y|z] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
FBXImportEdgeSmoothing v [true|false]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
FBXImportCacheFile v [true|false] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
FBXImport -f [filename] -t [take i