Unity Problem

We find that the physical setting from the rope we applied in Unity will make the animation very lag, so we will try to make the rope animation from Maya.

Animation - throwing the rope

In the last part of the animation, the cowboy will throw a rope to hook on the train.

Animation - drop the cloth

 

 

The cowboy will drop the cloth suddenly, this is the animation of this shot. we'll close up his hand and show the cloth is hook on the cactus, and he look at his hand and feel surprise.

Animation - Cowboy on the running and landing Horse(2)

This is the cowboy part of that shot.

Because there are some problems if we import 2 models with animation in one scene, so we have to separate the cowboy and the house in different scene after finish the whole animation.

This is the whole animation.

Animation - Cowboy on the running and landing Horse

There are the keys of different controllers on the cowboy. the animation is almost done.

Animation - Horse running after landing(2)

We animate the horse and we are going to animate the cowboy.

Animation - Horse running after landing

There is a shot that the house jump over the cuttle and keeping running, and the cowboy is getting the red cloth at the same time. We are animating the shot.

 This is the video I found from YouTube for my reference.

Animation - Horse Standing ,Stand Up and Jumping (2)

We've enhance the power of the jumping from the previous animation.

Animation - Horse Standing ,Stand Up and Jumping

This is the stand by pose of the horse.

Animation- Horse running in Unity

We fixed the paint skin weight problem in Maya and import the running horse into Unity.

Problem form Unity

When we import the horse into the Unity, we find that there is some problem on the horse, even we've paint the horse skin smoothly.

We also got this warning when we import the horse into Unity.

 Then, we found a solution of this warning from:
 http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/149258/why-isnt-segment-scale-compensate-supported.html

Some one also got the warning before, the solution is we have to uncheck the Scale Compensation from the Joint setting.

Although we've followed the solution step by step, the problems also still there, so we try to Re-paint the skin that having problem.

Problem of Unity and Maya

We find that if there are two characters with their own animation in the same scene, the animation of them will out of working.
So, we're going to animate them in the same scene first, after that, we'll separate them into different scenes and import to the unity.

Animation - Horse running in Maya(3)

The pose of the horse and cowboy is almost done, we also add a halter on the horse, and we'll add physical condition onto halter.

Animation - Horse running in Maya(2)

We think that the animation of the cowboy in the previous video feel carefree, however, he is pursued by lots of cattle, so, the pose should be more focus to ride the horse, so we edited the animation of the cowboy.

Animation - Horse running in Maya

We combine the cowboy and the horse into one scene and animate them.