the massive importer you mentioned is a good start. as I recall, a couple of bug fixings can make it work.
you can also search in github, I think there are some interesting projects about bringing massive simulated results back into maya. but be careful, those projects might ceased because there is an official massive maya plugin. I used to read the source code of massive importer and implemented my own importer before. if you want to write your own importer to import the massive simulated results, first, you will have to understand .cdl file structure, the massive manual is a good start. in cdl file, there is a part about the joints position and orientation in rest pose, you will have to parse this part and build the whole joint hierarchy in maya. this might takes some time to figure it out, because massive save the joint information in a different way, you can search massive manual and their official forum for more detail. the massive manual also mentions the skinning weight format, it's easy to understand, and also easy bringing back to maya. next, the simulated act files( the ascii one ), you will have to read info of joints' position and orientation per frame and apply them to the joint hierarchy which you just built. the most important thing is to figure out the difference between massive agent joint and maya joint. once you figure it out, the rest is just using python to parse text files. the source code of massive importer you mentioned can enlighten you a lot. I am sorry I can't provide you more detail, because I don't have the source code I wrote before, since I have already left the studio where I built the massive pipeline. good luck! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/f95d88b3-3edc-442c-9641-2c126a174ffc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
