Notes

This chapter describes general precautions.

Launching Maya
Maya Environment Settings
Restrictions on Usable Characters
Installing Creative Studio
Maya2011 Restrictions

Launching Maya

In order to use plug-ins, launch Maya using the batch files listed below. %NW4C_ROOT% is the folder where NintendoWare for CTR was installed.
You must first set the folder where Maya was installed as an environment variable using the procedures described in Installation Method before you can use the batch file.

The scene will open when Maya is started if a scene file name is specified as an argument to the batch file for starting Maya.

NW4C_Maya2010.bat scene1.mb

The specified project scene opens if "-proj project_name" is specified after the scene file name.

NW4C_Maya2010.bat scene1.mb -proj D:\Project1

Maya Environment Settings

Be sure to set preferences (Window → Settings/Preferences → Preferences) as follows.

• Under Settings -> Up axis, select Y.
• Under Settings -> Angular, select degrees.

Restrictions on Usable Characters

• Prohibited Characters

  Only single-byte uppercase and lowercase alphabetic characters, numeric characters, and underscores (_) can be used in node names and material names. Use of any other character or symbol is prohibited. If a prohibited character is used, it will be converted to an underscore (_) at time of output.
  A node name and such sometimes includes a colon (:) when Import or Reference has been used. Note that the colon is a prohibited character and will be converted to an underscore when output is made to the intermediate file. Nodes named Test:Cube1 and Test_Cube1 are handled as different names by Maya, but are handled as the same name by NintendoWare. This is caused by NW4R name conversion when intermediate files are output.

• Regarding Uppercase and Lowercase

  Although either uppercase or lowercase characters can be entered for notation used in Windows, they are overwritten when output because ABC.cmdl and abc.cmdl are recognized as the same file during internal processing. On the other hand, the names ABC and abc (when used for a node name, for example) with Maya are treated as different names. In other words, such names can co-exist. There is a possibility that such naming with Maya might collide during data clipping. When outputting data externally from Maya to the operating system in the form of files, make sure to name the files in such a way that there will be no conflict, even when the name is treated as all lowercase.

Installing Creative Studio

Creative Studio must be installed in order to use the merge and optimization operations of the Export plug-in because these processes are linked to Creative Studio.

Maya2011 Restrictions

The following restrictions apply to the new features in Maya2011

• When using Scene Time Warp, the animations for all nodes are baked.
  They will be baked by simply adding Scene Time Warp, even if warp effects have not been configured.
• When you use Dual Quaternion skinning, the result nevertheless will be output as Classic Linear skinning mode.
  Take note of this, because the data that is output differs from the Maya preview. (There are plans to display a warning on the exporter.)

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