Cannot locate MAYA85

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Hi, all.

Trying to convert from .mb to .egg.

D:\05_06_08>maya2egg85 -a model -o car.egg CAR_v11.mb
Cannot locate MAYA85 - it does not appear to be installed

D:\05_06_08>

Maya 8.5 (legit commercial version with Complete and Unlimited licensing) is installed, although not at the default path.

Is there somewhere to configure where maya2egg looks for the Maya install?

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It uses the windows registry to find Maya 8.5. The following registry key is supposed to exist after installation:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\Maya\8.5\Setup\InstallPath\MAYA_INSTALL_LOCATION

On my machine, the value of this registry key is c:\Maya85

Do you have this registry key? If not, could you look for something similar? I wonder if I’ve missed something.

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Hmm, okay. I have Maya 8.5, and Maya 2008 on this machine.

I had a registry key at that location for for Maya 2008, but not for 8.5.

So, I created the appropriate key, and put the correct value in there. Now I get a different error:

D:\05_06_08>maya2egg85 -a model -o car.egg CAR_v11.mb
Could not launch C:\Panda3D-1.5.1\bin\maya2egg85-wrapped.exe

D:\05_06_08>

That is a valid path to the maya2egg85-wrapped.exe.

Also tried using 2008 and got the same thing:

D:\05_06_08>maya2egg2008 -a model -o car.egg CAR_v11.mb
Could not launch C:\Panda3D-1.5.1\bin\maya2egg2008-wrapped.exe

D:\05_06_08>

The source for that maya2eggs85.exe is available, yes? Perhaps I’ll peruse that. Not sure why this is such a problem. Does the thing rely on any environment variables? We are heavily customized here.

P.S. I’m running 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Maya(s).

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Upgraded to Panda 1.5.2. Same issues.

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It’s the 64-bit maya that’s the problem. The exporter is compiled for 32-bit maya.

This is getting to be a real problem: too many versions. I’m already compiling for a half-dozen versions of maya. Each time I want to add support for another version I have to beg somebody to loan me a copy. Now there are 64-bit versions too, and I really ought to do linux versions, and 64-bit linux versions…

There has to be a better way than me spending half a day trying to scrounge up each and every version of Maya. Anybody have any ideas?

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Hmm, okay. I guess I will try to compile it on my machine. O_o

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Just found a 32-bit machine instead, but still getting the same error.

Could not launch C:\Panda3D-1.5.2\bin\maya2egg85-wrapped.exe
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Also have 7.0 on this 32-bit machine, which seems like it wants to work, but fails because the file is from 8.5.

D:\05_06_08>maya2egg7 -a model -o car.egg CAR_v11.mb

Initializing Maya.
***** Error: line 1: Unknown Maya file version: 8.5.
Maya binary file parse error:  : (6) corrupted file structure
***** Error: line 1: Error reading file.
***** Error: line 1:
CAR_v11.mb: (kFailure): Unexpected Internal Failure
:maya:mayaegg(error): Unable to read CAR_v11.mb
Errors in conversion.

D:\05_06_08>

Is anyone successfully working with maya2egg85?

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I do, have you tried using the mel script?

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Yes. I click the export button and it blinks. It doesn’t throw an error, but it doesn’t export the model either.

What is the difference between the “maya2egg85.exe” and the “maya2egg85-wrapped.exe”?

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open your script editor before export so you can see the entire error messages, if any.