HEAT is the SIMPLE way to get high-quality motion capture animations into your Maya scene.

1. Create a HEAT account at https://heat.tech
2. Once you have successfully signed into your HEAT account, the plug-in will automatically display the animations included in the 'Dashboard' section of your profile.
3. The library viewer in the HEAT Maya plug-in works exactly like the web version of our platform.
4. Before importing animations we need a character to animate. Click the 'Import Base Character' button in the bottom right corner of the plug-in window. This will automatically pull a HEAT base character model into your scene and select the skeleton of that model.
5. Next, find an animation you would like to import to your character.
6. When you select the animation you will see the preview viewport window expand on the right-hand side of the plug-in.
7. Below the viewport, you will see the 'Import' button. With the character selected in your scene click this import button and your chosen animation will be applied to your character in the scene.
8. The animation is now applied as keyframes to your character.
9. When you import an animation into your Maya scene the FPS of the project is automatically set to 60 frames to match HEAT animations, and Maya's time editor is muted so that there are no conflicts between animation clips and keyframed animations.
10. Multiple animations can be applied to multiple characters in this method - simply select each character armature you would like to animate before importing an animation.

Your character will now be animated.  You can use the Time Editor within Maya to make these animations into clips to further manipulate and blend them, or you can use the Maya HIK system to retarget these animations to any other character with a skeletal definition!

The installer that ran when you downloaded this app/plug-in from Autodesk App Store will start installing the app/plug-in. OR, simply double-click the downloaded installer to install the app/plugin.

To uninstall this plug-in, exit the Autodesk product if you are currently running it, simply rerun the installer, and select the "Uninstall" button. OR, click Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features and uninstall as you would any other application from your system.