A MAYA Exporting Plug-in for MPEG-4 FBA Human Characters
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The aim of this paper is to present a method and a tool to extract the full set of information from an animated character designed in Maya (animatable body only). The Maya plug-in generates the appropriate data as specified in the MPEG-4 FBA standard [2]. The result is composed of three different data sets: the BDP (Body Definition Parameters) describing the character geometry, the BAP (Body Animation Parameters) containing the animation sequence and finally, the BAT (Body Animation Tables) witch contain a deformation mapping.
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