Exporting Between Xsi And Maya Using Crosswalk

[kittenchowmein]

Does anyone know how to export bones+mesh between Maya and XSI? I have modeled my 2 characters (one segmented and one is a one-piece mesh) and I want to paint weights and create blendshapes in XSI, then bring the characters back into Maya to animate them.

So far, using crosswalk, I cannot import ANY kind of bones into XSI from Maya, and when I export my mesh from XSI back to Maya, the mesh explodes- I have not painted any weights on the mesh, its only bones and mesh.

If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know- my XSI and Maya teachers don't know what to tell me.

Thanks!!

-Kittenchowmein

[bolducati]

Hi,

Hard to tell what's going wrong with you character. Did you update to the latest Crosswalk version 2.6 available on the Softimage website? Also have a look at those videos:

http://community.softimage.com/showthread.php?t=801

http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/vide...spx?video\_id=23

Even if they show Max and XSI interop, it's very similar with Maya. Note that Crosswalk does not recreate "bones" in XSI, they get replaced by nulls but they have the right animations + the envelopes are transfered so they act as deformers.

regards,
LB

[iannisxenakis]

You probably already know this by now, but if you uninstall Crosswalk and XSI 7.0 and re-install the "Autodesk modded" 7.01 update the file transfer should be less painful...

Chris