Skeleton normals

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1

This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.

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# 1 13-07-2012 , 07:11 AM

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Hi guys,

some advice if possible. I have some dynamic characters I tried to import into an engine, now I am told my skeletons normals were broken and NOT orientated correctly. I assume that all joint were not pointing 'up' in the Y axis or something. Has anyone heard of this?

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# 2 13-07-2012 , 08:34 AM

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Whats the game engine Bullet............dave

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# 3 13-07-2012 , 09:26 AM

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Hero dave......Im just curious as I never went to school for modelling and have never heard or seen this normals issue with rigs. Even in tutorials I have seen they dont explain it...something you dont get in the uni of life by the looks of it.

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# 4 13-07-2012 , 10:41 AM

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Just found this on the net.........dave
Face Character into -Y for Max; +Z for Maya.
To make life smoother, all rigs in 3ds Max should be facing in the -Y direction, which is also the default for any Biped created; +Z for Maya. This helps with consistency for the production and it also plays nicer with the scripts that have been written for the exporter.
link:https://hewiki.heroengine.com/wiki/Cr...Add_a_skeleton

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