Re: OT: exporting from Endorphin - tips?

[André Adam <a_adam(at)49games.de>]

Hey Olly,

phew, haven't touched endorphin for over a year now, I think our 
workflow was to export a simplified null-structure of our character into 
endorphin (any rig element apart from the primary skeleton was nothing 
but trouble in endorphin), creating an endorphin character for our setup 
(about a day of work), throwing animation onto it, pressing simulate 
(basically making skiers hit walls at 120 MPH) and exporting our own 
null structure back to XSI using the dotXSI file format. Getting the 
animation back to the original skelton was easy, simply constraining the 
bones onto the imported nulls (using a script to avoid repeditive work).

Not quite sure what kind of character you simulate in endorphin with, 
but any chance you get that data FK plotted onto a simplified structure? 
That should work out. On the other hand, if you're into serious business 
with endorphin, it's definately worth the hassle to get an own character 
going in there; after a setup and pipelining period of two or three days 
we were able to produce tons of shots a day with flawless im- and 
exports into and out of XSI.

Hope that helps a bit, cheers! (Ehh, and all off the top of my head, 
btw, so no guarantees... ;) ).

   -André


olly nash wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Endorphin forum seems pretty quiet for XSI-ers, so thought I'd see if 
> any of you guys can shed some light....
>
> I've been having great fun messing around with .bvh mocap data, .xsi 
> animation data combined with simulations in Endorphin but now that I 
> want to export this animation back into XSI I'm failing miserably. The 
> IK hierarchy structure is correct but the skeleton is a mangled mess : (
>
> Exporting a .bvh file looks to be the closest to how it should look 
> but the animation is way, way out.  I'm running out of Exporting 
> parameters to test.
>
> So, any Endorphin experts remember what filetype and unit parameters 
> worked for you? 
>
> Any tips greatfully received.
>
> Olly : )

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