How do you export multiple animations from ART in Maya

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I am animating a cutscene that involves multiple rigs in Maya using ART.
I have multiple sequences but when I go to export, it looks like I have to export each rig separately and rename each export file by hand.

Is this the correct way to export multiple rigs from a single cutscene?

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Heya!

I actually just updated the dropbox folder with a new script we use here for that exact purpose. It should show up under the Misc.Tools section of the Epic Games menu:

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I updated quite a few things with this latest drop, so if you get errors with existing characters when using certain tools, just rebuild that character’s rig with the latest code to fix those issues :slight_smile:

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This looks really useful, but it looks like it’s the next step up from what I’m looking for.
It appears to be for exporting an entire directory.

I was just wondering what the process is to export multiple characters that are interacting together from a single maya scene file, without renaming the export FBX file names by hand for each rig you export.

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ah I see. In that particular case, I have nothing at the moment. Our general cinematic workflow is for the animator to bang away, then on the server we have an exports folder where they’ll put shots that need to be exported, and then we run the batcher.

I could probably extract the main loop of that code for doing a version of the tool that just does “in scene” characters and not a directory. I’ll try to get this to you tomorrow. Stay tuned!

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Alright, I managed to get some time in today to extract the core loop of that directory batcher and create a single scene batcher for you. Files have been updated in the dropbox location. You should now see a new menu item after restarting Maya:

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This will just export each character’s motion in your scene using the frame range in the timeline and dump the FBXs in the same location as the saved file with a suffix of the character name at the end of the fbx file for differentiating.

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Oh wow!

Thanks very much Jeremy. That’s awesome.

I’m going to try it out now.

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That works like a charm.

Thanks very much.

You rock Jeremy.

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My pleasure!