Animation baking from Maya.

Unity Engine
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Guys i have issues with animation since 4.3 and i’ve got no clue why.
I just made a pole and a small flag on it, and deformed it with a sin deformer for 12 frames.
Everything works fine in Maya but the animation never translates into Unity.
Unity shows that it has a 12frame clip but it’s empty, it won’t animate the flag.

I tried baking the animation in maya in the FBX exporter, i tried baking the animation in Edit->Keys, i even desperately tried to animated each vertex of the flag. Even tried to open the .ma file in Unity.

Nothing works.
Any ideas? Please?

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Maya Deformers are like blendshapes, not simple keyframed animations.
To import vertex animations without bones you’ll have to use blendshapes.

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Thanks for the input.
You mean make the animation in Maya using blend shapes, or click on “blendshapes” in the model importer?

Edit: Thank you so much. Works like a charm now.