Despite our resolve, we still are unsure as to what exactly was causing the problem, and now in the background of work we are slowly trying to recreate the problem to see what actually causes it for future reference, and to help people with the same issue on this blog.
We have our character in, deforming *as it should* (not as we want, but that will easily be rectified once we apply our own animations). I will keep this brief at least for now. Should we find the actual cause(s), I will post them in full detail on this blog at a later date.
Exporting our fully rigged character does this when brought into UDK for animation.
This is using the old format from Maya 2011, .psk. Works perfectly.
FBX has has this bug reported hundreds of times throughout the internet it seems, and has been around for a while.
Another problem we had while trying to fix all of this was parts of the model were pointing in the wrong direction. We figured this may be linked to joint axis rotation, but changing these manually appeared to have no affect, so we were unable to confirm this outcome as of yet.
