mixamo requirement

[king5FDC]

hi i was wondering if mixamo will be adding support for disjointed body part characters anytime soon or if there is an alternate way for this.

[Ko.Maruyama]

Adobe doesn't publicly discuss unreleased features or roadmaps for applications.

BUT

If your character is a simple biped with disconnected limbs, you could create a dummy rig that has connected body parts, then retarget your animation to your custom character.

It would be great to see your character that you're trying to target.

[king5FDC]

Thank you so much for replying!
And what you mentioned sounds like something i might be interested in. I
was wondering if there was an example tutorial video about retargeting rigs
to other characters.
The character i’m working with is basically a simple blocky body similar to
“Minecraft” where the body parts aren’t exactly jointed otherwise it would
misbehave in certain animations.

[Ko.Maruyama]

While you could use bvh for minecraft style characters, I would probably use a really basic rig. The number of joints/bones in the capture data won't give you the "blocky" style movement without a bunch of editing even after you've applied the mixamo rig.

[king5FDC]

I still need to have like a standard Rig like arms , elbo, neck, head, leg,
knees , spine.
Since my character wasn’t meant to be completely basic , but I’ll look into
this bvh thing you mentioned.

[Ko.Maruyama]

Ran a quick test.

Made a cubedude... super bendy, but retargeting should get you to your disconnected parts.

just make sure that you have some "dummy" geometry connecting the gaps between sections of your mesh.

[Ko.Maruyama]

WOW - even easier....  if you look at the (*crappy) modeling hierarchy that I have in the test.

Because I left it out of the main hierarchy, it was super easy to delete those pieces once I downloaded the animation. The cubes are still twisting strangely, but a little weight map editing can correct that.

[king5FDC]

1. The issue is that i use Unity to model my characters so I don't know if i can do that but i will give it a shot