Bake Mograph

There is a workaround to bake MoGraph (including dynamics):

- duplicate your Cloner / Fracture Object
- hit "C" to convert the Cloner to single objects
- put a XPresso Tag on the converted Cloner which attaches every "physical" copy of your objects to its cloned counterpart (screenshot of XPresso attached)
- set the priority of the XPresso Tag to "Generator 499"
- be sure you have the converted Cloner selected in ObjectManager (the Null that contains all your "physical" copies)
- go to Character - Cappucino
- select "Rewind Time", "Position", "Rotation" and "Hierarchy"
- hit "Start Realtime"
- Click and hold anywhere in your editor view until the animation has run through once

You've got your baked to keyframes MoGraph. If you save the XPresso as a preset it's not that hard or lengthy to do at all. Actually it's something of a 30sec job to bake your MoGraph if you've got the XPresso ready to go.

And here's the Screenshot of the whole setup. Couldn't attach it here because of filesize limit.









var userStartTime = 0;
var userEndTime = 90;

var fps = doc->GetFps();
var bakeStartTime = GetActiveDocument()->GetTime(); //needed to initialize a BaseTime object
bakeStartTime->SetFrame(userStartTime, fps);

doc->SetTime(bakeStartTime); //set the time slider to the user's start time
var currentFrame = GetActiveDocument()->GetTime()->GetFrame(fps);

while(currentFrame <= userEndTime)
{
StopAllThreads();
CallCommand(12410);//record
userStartTime++;
bakeStartTime->SetFrame(userStartTime, fps); //needed to convert frame to BaseTime
doc->SetTime(bakeStartTime);//SendPlayhead to next frame
var redraw = DrawViews(DA_STATICBREAK);
EventAdd(EVENT_ANIMATE);
if(redraw == TRUE) currentFrame = GetActiveDocument()->GetTime()->GetFrame(fps);
}





BY Adam Swaab