Crosswalk and CAT ?

[inge_xsi]

Hi,

I've got a question, hope you can help :-)

I know that I can use crosswalk to transfer animation and other attributes from a Character Studio biped rig from Max to XSI - great!

However,

Is it possible to transfer animation and attributes from a Softimage CAT rig to XSI using crosswalk?

I suppose what I am asking is there anyway to easily transfer work that has been done using Softimage CAT in Max to XSI and if so what would be the best way to go about it?

Thanks a bunch for any advice you can offer.

Inge

[thiago]

I had transfered CAT rigged characters from Max to XSI using crosswalk and it worked all right.

The only thing is that you'll not keep the rig. It will be all represented as a nulls in XSI (as any rig you bring in with crosswalk). It will keep the hierarchy though...
What I did was transfer this crosswalk imported character to my XSI character, then transfer the Animation to another XSI character using MOTOR.

But it depends what you'll gonna to do in XSI... For instance if you bring your character using crosswalk, do some modeling changes or shape animation in XSI than you send back to Max with Crosswalk, it should update it all in max in the rigged character, so this would be very handy.
But if this is just bring it from Max to XSI and leave it there... then I don't think you'll be able to use much of the CAT rig in XSI.

[inge_xsi]

I had transfered CAT rigged characters from Max to XSI using crosswalk and it worked all right.

The only thing is that you'll not keep the rig. It will be all represented as a nulls in XSI (as any rig you bring in with crosswalk). It will keep the hierarchy though...
What I did was transfer this crosswalk imported character to my XSI character, then transfer the Animation to another XSI character using MOTOR.

But it depends what you'll gonna to do in XSI... For instance if you bring your character using crosswalk, do some modeling changes or shape animation in XSI than you send back to Max with Crosswalk, it should update it all in max in the rigged character, so this would be very handy.
But if this is just bring it from Max to XSI and leave it there... then I don't think you'll be able to use much of the CAT rig in XSI.


Hi Thiago,

Thank you very much for your help and advice, I understand now.

I will give your suggestions a try.

Thanks again for taking the time to reply!

Inge