Exporting Rigid Bodies, Constraints, and Skeletons

To use the MassFX information you author in a game or other real-time simulation, first export it. To do so, use the Export MassFX Scene command on the Animation menu Simulation - MassFX submenu Utilities submenu, or use Export Scene on the MassFX Tools dialog Utilities. Doing so opens the MassFX Export dialog:

To perform validation before exporting the files, turn on Validate Scene before Export. For more information about export validation test, refer to the Validate Scene section, following.

You can export in either NxuStream (XML or binary) or Collada format. For the easiest loading into the PhysX SDK, use NxuStream.

Clicking the Export To New File button opens a dialog that lets you specify where to save the file. As a convenience for repeated export/test/tweak cycles, use the Export To Last File/type button to export the scene to the last file you saved, using the same file type.

Validate Scene Before Export

To make sure the scene contains a valid simulation, use the Validate MassFX Scene command on the Utilities submenu or the Tools panel, or turn on Validate Scene Before Export on the MassFX Export dialog. Doing so opens the Validate MassFX Scene dialog:

Use the dialog to perform validation tests to ensure that the MassFX scene exports properly without errors. The validation options are as follows:

Scaled Objects: Finds any graphical meshes used by MassFX that have scaling other than 100%/100%/100% applied.
Non-Uniform Scaling: Finds any graphical meshes used by MassFX that have differing scales per axis.
Animated Scale: Find any graphical meshes used by MassFX whose scale has been animated.
Skewed Objects: Finds any graphical meshes used by MassFX that have been scaled along axes other than the primary ones.

Choose the tests to perform by turning on the corresponding check boxes, then click the Validate button. The tests are performed one at a time, during which the progress bar for each test updates. When the validation finishes, it updates the result icon at the end of the progress bar with one of three colors:

Valid is indicated by a green icon.
Fail is indicated by a red icon.
Note is indicated by a yellow icon.

When a validation result is either Fail or Note, the result is be shown at the bottom box in the window.