Z up proxy orientation?

is there no Z up proxy orientation? we are using unreal and not being able to orient the proxy so i can rig/skin my model in that orientation rather than rotate it 90 degree and save for the other animator do do his work? maybe I am missing something? the other artist has his own version so he can animate with the RRM rig. just noticed that again maybe Im overlooking something. or should that even be a bother and just export as "z up axis" under axis conversion making this a nothing burger lol. also is it possible to add an option to orient the rig in Z up orientation, since we using unreal. so the other artists don't need to jump between Y up and Z up orientation in settings depending on what rig they are working on.

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dustin

Jun 02

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Unreal handles this fine. You can export the fbx rig/animation with the RRM3 tools, and it will import by default with Z up, while keeping Maya Y up. I do this all the time.

dustin

Jun 04

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I haven't tried it so I don't have a screenshot. It's also not something I intend to support so you can try it, but I can't say whether it will work for your needs or not.

dustin

Jun 04

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Unlikely that I would add this, at least not in the short term. It would be a lot of code refactoring because every translation and rotation as well as all the logic for mirroring would all need to be extended for changing the up direction in the scene.

sgtkoolaid

Jun 04

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fair enough. yeah seems speaking to the animator they will work with Y up with the new models, and export as Zup for the existing models. so kind of works out in the end.