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After importing a custom rigged character you will be able to use it in all your simulations, just like you can use any of the AXYZ Metropoly®Library actors included by default in the library.

The static models cannot be animated by anima® Anima because they don’t have a bone structure, but the advantage of adding them to the Anima library is that once imported, you can use them through the Drag & Drop Gallery panel directly inside your 3D application thanks to the anima® Anima plugins for 3dsMax®3ds Max,  Maya®Maya, Cinema4D®Cinema 4D, and UnrealEngine®Unreal Engine. Take a look at the video tutorial available here to see how fast and easy it is to use this panel.

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As the FBX format specification can have problems recognizing the shaders from some renderers (V-Ray, Corona, Arnold, Redshift, etc.), the best way to ensure the compatibility and export correctly all the textures used in the model is to apply only basic standard shaders before exporting the FBX from your application (3dsMax3ds Max, Maya, Cinema4DCinema 4D, Blender, etc.).

Also, to avoid problems with the paths of the textures, it’s recommended to use the option “embed media” that includes all the textures inside the FBX itself.

Keep in mind that this “standard shader” configuration used on the FBX won’t affect in any way the capabilities of our anima® Anima plugins to adapt the shaders of the actors to any Render Engine that you may have selected on your 3D application. Don’t worry, that will still happen, this is only to get all the textures used in the models to be recognized correctly by the FBX exporter first and then by Anima too.

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Import your FBX into Anima

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Column width 40%55% To import one or morestatic characters into anima®Anima, follow these steps: Open the Project for new Characters and change the Anima UI Mode to Editing Mode. In the Actors Library, at the Project tab click the [+] button on the right side to start the import process. Column width 5% Column width 55%40% Image Removed Image Added

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Column width 40%55% 3.The Import Actor dialog will open. Click on the Input File three little dots on the right side of the filename field and browse to the FBX file of your model. Column width 5% Column width 55%40% Image Removed Image Added

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Column width 40%55% Please note that you can use the static Posed models both inside the Anima standalone application and directly inside 3dsMax®3ds Max, Maya®Maya, Cinema4D®Cinema 4D, and Unreal Engine® Engine using the Drag and Drop gallery panel installed with the anima® Anima plugins. UI Text Box type note  Remember that anima® Anima has a great set of tools to create multiple color variations for the textures of your actors, both Posed and Rigged. Read this article to learn more. Column width 5% Column width 55%40% Image Removed Image Added

Use the Imported Model on all Projects

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