Question Maya fbx: animation either not showing, only showing the root motion, or uses the wrong axis.

I'm relatively inexperienced with 3D in Unity, but I do have experience with Maya.

I recently made an animation test in Maya, exported as an fbx (baked animation, Y-is-up-axis), and am just really, really struggling with getting it to work in Unity. As I mentioned, depending on the animation import parameters I check, I either get... nothing happening (motion "<none>"), only the root node animation being taken into account (motion "<group>" etc), or the full motion showing, but instead of rocking front to back the character rocks to the right (motion "<group/root>").

I watched a gazillion tutorials and can't find a solution for this. Baking the pose when motion <none> is selected doesn't change a thing either. I'm at my wit's end, what am I missing?

Any help is appreciated, thank you!

 

I suggest using Blender for game content creation with unity as a non professional inexperienced person because there are all sorts of technical tutorials on making all things Blender work with Unity; like how to 'properly' setup models, skeletons, rigs, animations, etc. for unity; how to import them into unity, and how to set them up properly in unity which is a super important part. I don't know if you get much of that with Maya.