Hey guys, I am attempting to port the acid gat kit into WaW from MOTD. I already did the blundergat and acidgat weapons, I just need to script the acidgat kit buildable. I already have a background on scripting, and I have some tutorials for animating script_models bookmarked. I was just starting out by getting the model and anims. For the anims, I loaded p6_anim_zm_al_packasplat from MOTD, dropped the bind file onto it, and dropped one of it's respective tanims on it in Maya. I went to export the anim with normal settings (same thing I use for weapons) and I had gotten an error in maya upon exporting the animation.

// 

// MayaAnimData::ProcessBones:Failed to find joint [MeshShape_0]
// Error: Failed to export scene to D:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Call of Duty World at War/model_export/acidgat_kit/xanim_export/acidgat_kit_end.XANIM_EXPORT // 
currentTime 0 ;

I am using Maya 8.5 with Tom's anim exporter plugin.
Here is a screenshot of what I am doing:

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance

Select all the meshes and joints + hierarchies and export the anim. Then export all the joints + one mesh for the animated model. Should work.

Select all the meshes and joints + hierarchies and export the anim. Then export all the joints + one mesh for the animated model. Should work.

Yup. Thanks so much, I just had to expand all of the joints and select them all without selecting hierarchy. Also, do I do the animated model without an animation loaded?

You need an animation loaded on the model in maya

thanks!

You're welcome also when you export be sure to export 1 frame less than the animation is long

I have another question 
What settings do I use in asset manager?

I have another question 
What settings do I use in asset manager?

Tick use bones and set to relative for the anims, for the model just select animated.

Yup. Thanks so much, I just had to expand all of the joints and select them all without selecting hierarchy. Also, do I do the animated model without an animation loaded?

tgats what select hierarchy "does"...

tgats what select hierarchy "does"...

For some reason when I did that it threw the error at me 

You need an animation loaded on the model in maya

this was backwards btw - but irrelevent

With or without a anim makes no difference, but you should "not" have one loaded incase the anim has repositioned the model - as it'll effect the anims played on it later