I figured I start a new post here. I have rigged objects , I want to simply bake the object animation so I can delete the rig. For some reasons the rig is causing problems in my other software.

Video showing the object with its rig. After I bake the objects it won’t play if you delete the rig

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e4K_DEoyRxz8SEJEMD_EowkQ3vSFjtB4/view?usp=sharing

It might not be anything hard. In the project I attached you can see the gun and it’s sub objects, but as is it can’t show them in my other animating software, it just shows all as one object. I believe it’s because how it is rigged. All I’m tryin to do is have the gun/sub objects with its animation be able to go into my other software

Hi, so I decided to just re animate all my gun weapons with my correct arms. Can you show me a simple way in c4d to bake the gun fbx animation so I don’t have to have any bones etc.. the gun fbx has some locks in the tags and I can import this gun into my other software and see the sub objects. So what I’m looking for is to be able to bring in the gun fbx with its sub objects with its baked animation

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1udb3b7t-ycCzc7_8mogkFhy4NnLU_UZZ/view?usp=drivesdk

Ok got it, I will explore more into this and thanks for all the tips. Maybe let’s try this from the start and you can tell me my best solution. I have a fps game and it already has animated fps arms/ weapons( about 30 different setups meaning I will have to retarget or bind).the fps arms/ gun are not huminod just generic as untiy3d calls it. I’m tryin to change the mess to a specific one. I use another program to make my new arms. The new arms starts as huminoid but I then use c4d to delete the un used bones to closely Matched what the original arms has.
I then in Unity take the original arms and manually tpose the Arms and I then place my new arms as close as I can to the original ( left hand is most import as the right hand just holds the gun and somtimes not even in frame) . I then start with left arm bone of the new arms and place it as a child under the same type of bone in the original arms. I do this all the way to the pinky finger etc.. I then hide the mesh on the original arms and play the animation. This comes close enough as the animation is so quick and not always on frame. For the noticeable parts that need attention like the fingers , I will manually add new key Frames to my new arms to fix any problems. This works fine but just takes too long. So now you know the full story . What do you think is still my best approach to get my new mesh to carry over the animations?

Ok, so the file you sent back is just my new arms re organized? The video shows binding joints to mesh. If I want to bind bone to bones is this the same thing? I don’t really understand your paragraph fully aboove. Sorry I’m a bit of a novice to this

Thanks for your help. Anyway you can show me maybe screen record?
I zipped a basic project with both arms fbx in a c4d project. I still can’t seem to get it to work. I’m still down to try the retargeting feature too if that works

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eBmilooCaBHQo9MNTewIX5CgU_gAdEbH/view?usp=drivesdk

Thanks for your help

Looks like in the new version of cinema there is no bind under commands? Do you know the steps on how to find the bind option in the menus

For the bindi command, do I just select all and go to character - bind? This will basically put the 2nd arm’s specific bones as a child under urge original one? Is there a way to bake the reference animation to the new arms? One last thing technically if I copy the exact name for each bone to the 2nd arms. Wouldn’t the animation play on the 2nd arms?

Ive watched a few videos on the retargeting feature In cinema 4d.
https://youtu.be/dGBw_KKRfLA?si=1BapWV2fyw9xiiWk

Is there a way this could work with fps arms that have bones? Im replacing the mesh of the original fps and using it as a reference. I have been doing this manually but would save me alot of time if it could work in cinema 4d.

Side note Both set of arms have the same bone structure hiarcky.

made hair in c4d converted to splines to get the geometry then exported, but it is too high Polly. I tried bringing it back in c4d and put into a polygon reduction , after it’s done processing it actually didn’t change anything. Any other techniques to turn high poly spline hair to lower count?