EVE Probe

Sure.

I think your problem is you are using Quaternions instead of XYZ Eulers for rotation. Change your objects to use Eulers and re-bake the animation. I did this in Blender and it worked fine.

Found the setting, maya defaults to Independent Euler-angle curves for the "New Curve Default", and Quaternion Cubic for the "New HIK curve default"

Do I want Independent Euler-angle curves or Synchronszed Euler-angle curves?

Edit tried with both settings, same issue

Yeah they are definitely set to Euler in maya :( I think its an issue with the DAE_FBX export, will poke around and find a different plugin

I really don't know.

Though I will mention that I had to write a little script to bake the animation to world transforms in Blender. For some reason it's just an internal function that isn't exposed except by command line - and only works on one object at a time, despite what the captions say - hence the script.

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### Bakes animations data into world XYZ + Eulers over the set animation period.
###

import bpy, bpy_extras.anim_utils

frame_start = bpy.context.scene.frame_start
frame_end = bpy.context.scene.frame_end
frame_step = bpy.context.scene.frame_step

# pick each selected object and bake animations if object is physical
for Obj in bpy.context.selected_objects:
    if Obj.type in ['MESH', 'CAMERA', 'LAMP']:
        bpy.context.scene.objects.active = Obj
        # the function 'bake_action()' is broken and only works on the active object, irrespective of the 'only_selected' parameter (confirmed in Blender v2.73a)
        bpy_extras.anim_utils.bake_action(frame_start, frame_end, frame_step, only_selected=True, do_pose=True, do_object=True, do_visual_keying=True, do_constraint_clear=True, do_parents_clear=True, do_clean=True, action=None)

Then I have to resample all of the curves, but I'm trying to find a better way to handle that.

Worse case if you can animate in Maya and convert the file in Bender.

Try OpenCOLLADA. That's the one I use.

No, it still looks like I'm having issues...

To test, I opened the example maya file, exported with opencollada using the same flags as the example.dae, seems to work fine.

I then try and convert the dae file using the pre-compiled script, it does not error in the script, but the resulting .red file simply contains "type: EveSpaceScene", and that's all.

here is my example.dae file before attempting to convert it to a .red https://www.dropbox.com/s/6tyvjl2mmscbywk/example.dae?dl=0

I thought it was working earlier as I was not getting an error on conversion, but in reality I was getting empty converted files :(

Played around with settings and now have a working file after conversion which is good.

Got the red file into probe, made a scene, got it all launching and running, for one small problem.

The titan, in maya, follows a slow curve orbit. In probe, it flickers all over the place weirdly and does not follow a straight line.

red file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/y3jlqdvbqcsmg3l/ragnarok.red?dl=0

scene file: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=mbiWpGmp

link to the titan in maya exported as fbx (if you can't see the titan make sure your far clipping plane is sufficiently high, titans are big yo) : https://www.dropbox.com/s/667nuxgxrk7nrus/titan.fbx?dl=0

If its easier making a youtube video of what's going on I can do that

Also just trying to play around exporting a camera move, getting the following error when using the dae to red converter: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=egvD3uNa

edit: I guess camera animation paths are only supported from the gr2 files anyway. I have a camera animation in maya already to scale, what would be the easiest way of getting that into a gr2 file for probe to load?

Would it be possible to get probe to load the movement path of any object in the dae/red export as the camera path?

eg I parent dummy geo to the camera, name it 'camera_path", bake it out to keys, export it from maya with my ship movements, so I have a two ship paths and a camera position/rotation path, and have probe use that?

eg - [set_camera_animation, 'res:/curves/scene2_objects.red', camera_path]

Yay that works. Can get some more info the options of;
_handle_trinity_setting(setting, value)

I'm wondering if its possible to change the BG color from black to something else (like green) when rendering a scene without a nebula.