Why are some animation clips playing incorrectly (after importing an FBX from Maya)?

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Hi,

I’ve imported an FBX file from Maya 2013 into Unity 5.1. The complete animation plays fine in Unity but I need to break it up into 3 animation clips within Unity’s inspector.

The problem is 1 of the 3 clips animates in a bizarre way. The problematic clip looks fine when previewed (after designating start/stop frames in Unity) but after I click “Apply” and preview that same animation clip in the Assets folder it’s completely different. Sometimes parts of the original object are floating in mid air. Sometimes it reflects a frame that is not part of its designated range. This same problem carries over into the game (if I use the include the problematic clip using Animator).

Is this a Maya issue? I’ve noticed that the frame that is displayed during the export affects what the problematic clip is showing.

Thanks for your help!

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After a few more hours of trying, I solved the problem. It looks like making a few more key frames in Maya at the end of the animation allowed my problematic animation clip to play properly in Unity. That seems so odd and arbitrary …. but I guess that’s why I’m a noobie :frowning:

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Found solution to this:

You need to add keyframe to ALL THE BONES to make them work with the animation clip.