extreme newb - importing keyframed maya mesh

Unity Engine
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ok, this is painfully stupid…

made a very simple keyframed animation in maya, but if i move the mesh somewhere in the scene in unity it jumps to the origin every time i try to play (or scrub the animation timeline). of course i saved it in maya centered at the origin.

is there something obvious i’m missing here? i don’t really have to position it (relatively) in maya first, do i?

thanks,
pat

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Just create an empty game object. Put the animated game object into it. Then move the empty game object instead of the animated object.

3

thankyou thankyou thankyou