GUIDES TO CURVES
  • Converts XGen description guides into curves.
  • Export guides as FBX or ABC
  • Rescue guides when XGen goes error.
  • Last updated: V.12.05
Extract Tab
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There are three main purpose for this tool:
  1. Allows simple curve conversion from Xgen Guides to Curves
  2. Allows conversion from Guide to Curves with Dynamic Link. (It will re-create the Xgen Guides for you without having to convert them from curves again).
  3. Export curves as .FBX files if you are using the curves to other applications.​
For regular curve conversions, simply select all the descriptions you wish to convert. And click “Convert”.
To convert Guides to Maya curves with Dynamic Link, click on the “Dynamic Link” check box. You can do this on multiple descriptions selected as well.
You can also export XGen Description Guides into Curves as .FBX or .ABC to be used in other software.
  • To export curves straight from Guides, select all the descriptions you would like to export as curves. Browse to a folder, and click on export.
When export is finished, you will see the .FBX (.ABC) files created for each description. 
NOTE: Each time a description curve is exported, a versioned copy will automatically be created inside the mayaProject/data/xgt_backup_curves/ folder
Rescue Tab
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This is for rescuing curves from guides when you encountered the following errors:
  • Sometimes when you accidentally deleted history on guides, and saved the scene. The next time you open it and try to sculpt it, error will show up.
  • XGen UI does not show up, but you see XGen nodes in the outliner.
Reconnect Guides:
  • This will reconnect the guides with lost history to their associated mesh.
Rescue Guides:
  • If XGen nodes exists, but the XGen UI does not show up, use this function convert selected guides to curves