Maya binary... into 3ds

General Discussion
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Hello to all who are reading this… salutations to the rest. First of all, I’d like to congratulate the panda team for creeating such a complex 3d engine… like panda 3d is. Um… The reason I joined this… community or sort… is because i’m an 3d artist… in the making… :smiley: true… and… i’m working on a 3d game project. I’m using the maya software and a web-downloaded free engine (unfortunally discovered before panda) who works mainly with 3DSMax… (wouldn’t you know it…). Bottom line… Can I use Panda to transform maya binary scenes into 3ds…? If not… what then?..

Thank-you all for the patience you’ve invested desciferring my bad english…

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I ever tried to convert maya ascii to 3ds using 3Dexploration or other converter. Sorry I don’t remember, it was long time ago. You can find powerful converter out there, just use search engine.

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You could try doing maya2egg, and then run the new MaxImport plugin to load it into 3DSMax. I don’t know how effective this will be at preserving animation and rigging information, but it should do fine with basic polygons.

David