Michiel van Iperen

For me the best way to implement it was to use the APEX autorigcomponent, set to 'lookat'. Once I got that working I could study the resulting graph through unpacking it.

Hi!
Likely you know already you can freeze the rotations in Maya and keep the orientations. So that would zero them out in a way suitable for rigging. From here on, might you want to re-export animations out of that kineFX-setup you can point to an input-fbx in the 'rop_fbxanimoutput'. It will write out animation data relative to the rotations present, aka the orient.

I tend to do a lot of back and forth between Maya and Houdini (fbx). In a very early stage I try to make sure that in both platforms my skeleton is stable and behaving correctly before proceeding further and exchanging data. Small issues can have dramatic impact.

I am trying to setup a rig in which joints translate according to their parent-child relation but where the rotation is being evaluated and set in world space.
Until now no success. Did try to unparent the control-rig hierarchy and insert a form of position constraint between the (former)parent and child, but documentation about pos-constraining is sparse in APEX. Would not know how to do that with the proper offsets. Also I need to do it on 32 segments so automation is key here as well. Could anyone maybe give me a hint how to approach?