Importing A.R.T rig to motionbuilder, scene empty with invisible bones?

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I’ve set up a rig in Maya using the A.R.T package (lovely tool by the way, good job!) and I would like to bring my preview mesh and skeleton into MotionBuilder for retargeting and other neat stuff Motionbuilder offers. But when I import or open my exported fbx it’s basically empty, except I have the skeleton in there but it’s invisible :O.

Using maya 2016 and motionbuilder 2015 btw. I know A.R.T is not officially supported by 2016, could this be the issue?

Thanks!

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ART is based around Maya and not MotionBuilder. The ART rig is not directly compatible or exportable to MotionBuilder.

For Setting up a Rig in MoBu, you’ll want to import a clean FBX with just your character’s skeleton and mesh (basically what you’d import into the engine). You’ll need to then characterize in MotionBuilder. More info on that here: Characterization in MotionBuilder -3dmotive - YouTube

If this answers your question, please mark as answered. If you have any more questions let me know!

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Aaaah I realized that I needed to open up the rig file and export from there. As you mentioned; The content that I would import into the engine.

Cheers!