Eduardo Simioni<\/a>, I was lucky to work with him on Assassin’s Unity. He is a great guy who has an awesome blog full of Python knowledge and Animation Tech, I wish I still worked with him as he is a wealth on knowledge – thank you Eduardo.<\/p>\nI hope this helps.<\/p>\n
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When I get Mocap it’s usually in a messy scene. Optics, Markets, strange NameSpace, etc. they all can bog down a scene. One of the first thing I do is save out the Character Animation and load it back into a clean scene. Using Python to save out Character Animation is great! 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