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MSFS Animated Passengers license

Shaun

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Does any developer of individual have, or be willing to create a library (model lib) of decent animated passengers with LODS Must be ready to place individually using the SDK.
Probably a dozen people, half sitting, half standing or walking. Please PM to discuss payment.

Thanks.
 
Find the human models you want to use then go here and choose your animated poses:

Mixamo

www.mixamo.com www.mixamo.com


:)
 
I've used MIXAMO, and have exported it as FBX binary, in blender after resetting all transformations it is offset.
The animation plays in blender and is in the nonlin animation tray. But it doesn't export with animations, nor are any mentioned in the XML.
i turnded skinning and the bones options also.
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And I forgot to add in that that if you have an animated person who's sitting you will probably have to move the mesh away from the armature to behave.

This is a rower crouched over and I had to experiment moving the mesh around until it matched the movement in sim. This is where it ended up.

Shouldn't be be a problem for anyone standing. The mesh can stay where it is.

This only applies if you're exporting out of Blender. Usually I try the first method mentioned in that tutorial which bypasses Blender where this issue doesn't apply.
 

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Hi,

I looked at the astronaut, I have the same setup. I'd rather get it exported through blender,
If I move it away from the armature it deforms it quite badly.

The nonliniar animation tray doesn't have a default position though. Everything else seems OK, besides it doesn't export the animation.
 
You can't move the mesh from the armature without mangling it. The mesh has a modifier that follows the armature which applies to the same points so it's going to stretch the further away from the armature it is.

The correct example file to export is the final one in the download named - 'Astronaut Animated Method 2 Blender Export Ready'

I remove the parent from the mesh after importing the FBX, sort out the mangling by realigning the mesh to the armature, and then apply the default state NLA.

That particular model has a few extra issues and has to be moved further than most as described in the pdf.

Usually with a Mixamo model it's just the three steps described at the end - deparent the mesh, scale it by 0.01, rotate along the x axis by 90 degrees.
 
Ya I use 3ds Max and there are some nuances, but overall it’s pretty straightforward.

Also, don’t forget to set up your XML, you have to have an animation section, GUID, all that good stuff.
 
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