Exporting An Animation For [Call of Duty] (Maya)

Pre-first step: Always make sure your CodMayaTools are up-to-date from this link: CodMayaTools

This tutorial goes over properly exporting an animation for the Call of Duty series in Maya.

NOTE: Please take your time while following the steps, you’ll likely encounter an error otherwise

This tutorial assumes you’ve already followed: Proper Import or have already created a custom animation.

Next follow these instructions in-order:

• If you are exporting a weapon anim, continue below, otherwise skip to step 2
  • If you’re exporting an animation that is NOT an ads you need to select the tag_cambone and the tag_torso tags (as shown) {F2537}
  • Then go to Edit->Select Hierarchy
  • If you’re exporting an ads animation, you must select ONLY tag_view and tag_torso
  • If you’ve gotten here, skip to step 3.
• This applies to none weapon animations, continue below
  • Select tag_origin or whatever root bone your model has
  • After selecting the proper joints go to Edit->Select Hierarchy to select the child bones (as shown) {F2539}
  • Continue to step 3
• The file step is exporting the animation using CodMayaTools
  • Go to Call of Duty Tools->Export XAnim and you will be presented with the export menu.
  • First, you must enter in the end frame time, as shown below you can find that time here: {F2541}
  • Enter that in the second box from the top (Will be shown below)
  • Next, either use the Grab notes feature to get notetracks, or enter them in manually.
  • Finally select a path to save the file using the ... button. Below you’ll see a completed export window {F2543}
  • Click on Export Selection to save the animation.

Contributors:

• DTZxPorter