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Did you already set up an hik definition before going to the cascadeur tool?

@@3DcgGuru no i don't think so

​@@thanseebmb5860you'll have to create a hik definition and map your bones to it. My script just converted the hik definition to the quick rig tool definition.

Ah. That's awesome. Rune was my first job in the industry and I started late in the production cycle. The talented Jeff Dewitt did the main character animations. I did a lot of death animations. 😂

@@3DcgGuru ahah this is so great! still its awesome you worked there. <3

Yeah, I haven't had a chance to test it in 2025 yet, but hopefully soon.

IS the button greyed out? The editor looks to see if there's any HIK definitions in the scene. If not then the button turns grey.

@@3DcgGuru yes, the HIK button is not active! I did everything according to instructions and step by step, of course. For experimentation, I created a cube and tried to export it to cascareur, but unfortunately this button does not function. Although the animation transfers well with Cascadeur in Maya

@@АнзорЭльдаров-э8м What time zone are you in? The official discord server has a general voice channel. I wonder if we could find a time to meet in there and I can try to trouble shoot this with you live. They also have a channel for scripts and plug-in support. You could post your issue there and I can more easily track it. Just @mention me @nathanieljla

@@3DcgGuru thanks! i already found the reason, and animation is successfully exported from maya

how did u resolve it. I'm also facing same issue

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@@3DcgGuru please write it on Gumroad

Thanks for the comment. Hopefully I'll get some new videos up soon. Actually with the newer relative trajectory mode you can see the arcs while moving through world space. It's quite nice

Thank you! Cheers!

Yes, this tutorial on a cycle is applying standard concepts, not really leveraging some of cascadeur's unique features, but some people are new to animating and I want to make sure standard concepts are being taught. How cascadeur at its core is fundamentally different from any animation software I've used in my 24 years in the industry. It doesn't use quaternions or Euler interpolation, but instead uses a spherical interpolation after all keyframes have been resolved in 3D space. This has a number of benefits compared to other software.

100%. There are literally no better videos on Cascadeur! I find the official videos impenetrably obtuse. :-)

I'm not sure if there's a quick way. Sorry.

Was this with the drag-n-drop installer or the exe you can get from the gumroad site?

@@3DcgGuru It was the Drag & Drop. Tried the Gumroad Version this Morning, but my AntiVir killed it twice. Also as Admin.

@@achimschnick4890 I looked into making the app play nice with anti-virus, but I'd have to buy digital certification which is like $300/year. You don't have any options to allow?

@@3DcgGuru Certificate is no Problem. The Antivir just killed the installer.exe twice. The others in the Folder "_internal" are ok. Surely you will know, which files I mean. But I don't have an Idea, where to put them in my System or the Installer would do. But I tried it manually with Maya and Lightwave. Works perfect via fbx. And for Human Figures I only use DAZ Studio. And Baby Cascadeur has an own Exporter for DAZ, as you know. And DAZ has a Problem with not own Figures though. So don't care. If you like, you can tell me where your Files to be put manually instead of using the Installer, you can do it. But don't make too much Work on it. No matter, if you don't want that. All ok. Thanks a Lot anyway.

Correct. I don't have a Mac to develop on, so this is Windows only for now.

Cascadeur is not designed to deal with long animations very well. I would suggest capturing a longer cycle and extending it in a video editing app. I cover the cycling tools in my speed run part 2 video. That should get you what you need.

@@3DcgGuru Thank you for the prompt reply!

Quick export should automatically import the animation into Cascadeur. It imports either the animation or the whole scene, based on if the data is already in Cascadeur. You need to have Casadeur open when choosing quick export. If Cascadeur is open and nothing happens then I'd check to confirm you have the Maya menu inside of their command menu. If you don't see it then it means something went wrong with the install.

This video has about 20 minutes left of processing, but here's a link on what is likely the issue and how to fix it. th-cam.com/video/aPQ5S3LSgSo/w-d-xo.html

@@3DcgGuru I finally got it working! It was actually a folder permission issue.. Thank you very much!!!

@@fourteen4005 awesome!

@@fourteen4005 do you remember the exact fix to this? I'm not getting any errors or warnings for folder permissions so im not sure what to fix or where to look

My videos (intentionally) tend to target longer studies of topics. I can understand why you might want a shorter video. I believe Cascadeur produces much shorter tutorials that would likely get you what you're after.

Unfortunately, at this point, since I don't have the macOS to test on it's PC only.

This has come up a few times now. It's on my list to look at, but I'm not familiar with the tool, so I can't comment on it until I look at it more closely. Only the skeleton and mesh (not the rig data) is sent to and from Cascadeur. If you have a copy of your character without the rig, the immediate solution is to send the unrigged character to and from Cascadeur via a HIK definition. Then to get the animation onto advanced skeleton you need to characterize the advanced skeleton using HIK's custom rig mapping. I don't see why that shouldn't work, but again, until I dig into it I can't say for sure. My short term plan was to and a command to the tool that gives people a clone of their character "derigged". I do have a link to patreon in the description.

@@3DcgGuru Check out how AS imports a rig that was initially setup for HumanIK but was able to wrap Advanced Skeleton on it. Could your plugin do this? th-cam.com/video/BCFL_wcuyuk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=AdvancedSkeleton

You can rig AS skeleton with HIK or rename all joints UE Mannequin with AS tools. UE Mannequin skeleton can be rigged automaticly in Cascadeur

For now you can use Maya HIK definition for the purpose of round tripping your character to Cascadeur. When back in Advanced Skeleton, use the moCapMatcher to map HIK to AS rig. But of course you have to make a clone of your character first so that you can have a HIK to round trip to Cascadeur. I suppose you can have your HIK character hidden in Maya while you work. I hope at that make sense. I may have to make a video of it.

@@williamreliford_vfx_artist Connect with the author of Advanced Skeleton, he seem to have the pulse on the rigging community. He just created an update to bring in RealAllusions Character Creators rigs and Face Rigs into Advanced Skeleton.

I'm slowly working on a plan for that, but it will take a while

Mgear or even non-standard custom rigs too. HumanIK isn't used a whole lot anymore.

This is likely a issue with your specific setup vs. a global issue. If you want to post something in the Cascadeur discord server's "scripts and plugins" forum I'll be able to more easily track down the issue.

It should be, if you want to troubleshoot it with me you can jump into the cascadeur discord server and post something in their plugin section. Please also @mention me.