Since every original character sold for Poser was designed in Maya or other software, i figure there must be an intuitive way to do this. If the figure is built and rigged in Maya, how do you import to Poser for animation/posing?

Hi any figure built in todays version of Autodesk maya will be built to Autodesk's "Human IK rigging Standard"

if a rig is exported from Maya as an FBX , I am given to understand that "poser pro game dev" and poser pro 11 have the ability to import FBX files.

I do not know if the FBX import of these poser versions can actually import a usable HIK rig from Maya though.

Nice. didn't realize Poser could use FBX, maybe that's how everyone is doing this. thanks!

If you are going to use that figure only in Poser, I think a better way would be to rig your geometry in Poser, not maya. just because you can save many problems.

importing as FBX did not work apparently, there is a list in the "groupings" menu of about 100 polygroups but there is nothing visible on the stage. I know people build models in Maya and sell them for use in Poser, so this should be a very simple thing to accomplish. Is there an extra step somewhere?

We need the figures rigged in Maya, then imported into Poser for animation. This is what i'm getting- as you can see import FBX did not load any visible geometry, even though the figure is rigged perfectly in Maya and works just fine there.

ok now we got it to load in Poser, but it's all one piece despite the heirarchy being listed. weird.

ok well we have had a breakthrough.. maybe this will work after all !

And your breakthrough? We find at the studio we often have to bring them into other programs and save another flavor of FBX...but not always...and doesn't always fix.

Let me know if you found a magic bullet!

Darkworld posted at 2:21PM Wed, 24 October 2018 - #4272691

ok well we have had a breakthrough.. maybe this will work after all !

How did you get the fbx file in show in poser, whenever i import it gives me the groupings but no figure.