Re-establish a live connection

After you establish a live streaming connection between a character in MotionBuilder and the same character in Maya, you can end your session and re-establish this connection at a later date.

To re-establish a live connection

1. Establish a live connection between Maya and MotionBuilder. See Stream animation to a skeleton or Stream animation to a Custom rig.
2. Save your Maya and MotionBuilder scenes while the live connection is active.

   In Maya, a connection is active when the Live checkbox beside your character's name is turned on in the Live Connection window.

3. Close Maya and MotionBuilder.
4. Navigate to C:\Users\<UserName>\Documents\MB\2013-x64\config.
5. Open the <MachineName>.Application.txt in a text editor of your choice.

   This configuration file must be edited to set MotionBuilder in a server state, so it is ready to re-connect the live stream to Maya.

6. In the [Networking] section, locate EvaluationMode = SinglePC ; SinglePC , Server, Output, Worker.
7. Edit this line to read EvaluationMode = Server.
8. Save and close the text file.
9. Open the saved Maya and MotionBuilder scenes.
10. In Maya, open the Live Connection window ( > Edit > Live Connection) and turn on the Live checkbox beside your character's name.

    The connection is re-established.

11. Play your animation in MotionBuilder and it streams onto the same character in Maya.