I am having this look at camera eye problem also. When I animate a character in iClone 7 and use look at camera, set free, pick target, set free, look at camera, etc. I get a good result until I attempt to do a collect clip and turn the animation into a motion plus. When I do a collect clip, I play through the animation, then save the animation as a motion plus with all the correct boxes ticked. When I import the saved motion plus, and play the animation, the eyes vibrate and look in the wrong directions. This is a huge issue as I need to save the motion plus for use in Unreal Engine. Please Advise
I have this problem also and it's pretty disappointing to see how old this post is. Considering I bought all this pipeline software and export content specifically for animating characters so I could export them to Maya and render 3d vr POV movies it feels like a little more then a bug.
As follow up to Rick Knowles post (April 2019)- I have found that this does bring an eye-motion into 3DXchange, but eyes are very twitchy and do not match the original animation in iClone, or what would match that which could be exported by Alembic. In 3DXChange the eyes seem to jitter aggressively, and then at times one eye goes limp/dead. It looks funny and is entertaining, but alas, it doesn't work. *Note - I tried almost every single combination of Animation > Motion Settings to to see if one was causing the jitter, and it winds up being the "Bake Constraint Key", which unfortunately, is the thing that does need to be turned on in order to potentially export the eye motion out. I wish there was a way to somehow hard-bake the eye animation through the FBX via a mini-conversion from constraint to regular motion. Anyway, I do praise Rick's description of a possible workaround, at minimum you could try it and see how the animation plays out in 3DXchange. At first I was going straight to 3DS Max, and I kept seeing the eyes all crazy, so it is more efficient to test run it through 3DXChange as a launching step to see if it even works. Admittedly, I have had no success yet.
Hi, I found a workaround for this issue that will help in the meantime for some people hopefully. While exporting FBX from iclone doesn't include the look at camera effect, you can still get through 3dxchange (assuming you have the pipeline edition). Steps: 1) In iclone, ensure Animations > Motion Settings > Bake Constraint Key is ticked 2) Set a "Collect Clip" for the frames you want to export 3) Open the model you want to render the animation with in 3dxchange 4) Back in iclone, play the clip once all the way through 5) When it's done, right click on the Collect Clip and choose "Add MotionPlus to 3DXchange" 6) when it opens in 3dxchange, under the Animation panel choose Add All To Perform 7) Export the FBX as normal and choose "Include Animation" and Include Geometry This worked for me when trying to get a character animation into unity. Be aware that the bones it maps the animation to are named differently in 3dxchange, so include the geometry as well to be sure you can actually play the animation. Hope that helps someone. Rick
No change in this new release 7.41.2525 (29 jan 19)... Look at Camera won't export in any solutions... "The Song Remains The Same"... Thanks