What rig do I send to a Motion Capture Company?.Do I need to use the MotionBuilder naming convention?.Do I rig it in Maya or in MotionBuilder?.How do I rig a character for MotionBuilder?.Suddenly I found myself with a long list of questions: The only problem was, I knew how to rig a character for animating in Max and Maya, but not for editing motion capture in MotionBuilder. To make our PlayStation 2 game more “next-gen” it was decided all the character animation would be motion captured and then edited in MotionBuilder, or Kaydara FilmBox as it was called back then. The software is rental-only with subscriptions now costing $2,145/year, up $100/year since the release of MotionBuilder 2022.This was certainly the case when I first started using it back in 2000 at Acclaim Entertainment. MotionBuilder 2024 is available for Windows 10+ and RHEL 8.6+/Rocky Linux 8.6+. It is also now possible to choose custom frame rates when exporting animations in FBX format.

UI changes include a new icon in the Character Controls window to provide access to Symmetry functions, and the option to collapse the Action panel shot stack in the Story window to free up screen space. It is also now possible to filter sources in motion clips in Assign Sources to Destinations and more options in the Schematic view now support undo and redeo.

Improvements to Python workflow, UI updates, and extended FBX exportĬhanges in MotionBuilder 2024 include a new Python status bar, which shows the latest message from the Python console, and turns red to highlight error messages.

A new icon in MotionBuilder’s Character Controls window makes it possible to access Symmetry functions without having to go through the Actor menu: one of several workflow improvements in MotionBuilder 2024Īutodesk has released MotionBuilder 2024, the latest version of its character animation software, commonly used for viewing and editing motion-capture data.Īs with the last few annual updates, it’s primarily a workflow release, adding a new tool for viewing Python status message, extending support for undo and redo in the Schematic view, and updating the UI.

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