Fbx Export Crash

[jagwar]

Hello,

I have a problem regarding exporting as FBX. The situation is a such that my friend is exporting a model as an FBX from Cinema4D (fbx does a cleaner job than obj since the model isn't perfectly clean some ngons and tris). Maya import the FBX flawless. I did a quick animation test and tried EXPORT ALL>FBX uncheck 'import edge smoothing' but when I hit export Maya thinks for a sec then dies.

So I did a new attempt. Imported the model and as soon as it was imported I hit EXPORT ALL > FBX and Maya crashed again. We tried cleaning up the Cinema 4D file as much as possible, re-export, import and then export again, still crashes.

The model itself is fairly heavy but not too crazy.

If anyone has any idea what could be going on, please advice on any possible solution.

[gmask]

well do you really need to send the model back to c4d.. are you using Maya to animate in.. why not just send back the animation channels using fbx and not include the mode.. I have used that pipeline and it works fine.

[deke-kincaid]

You want to make sure that you have "bake animation" selected when you export to fbx.

Another issue is if the fbx version isn't the same between both cinema4d and maya it can have issues. So you can make sure you have the newest version for both Maya and Cinema4d(check link below for newest maya fbx plugin). Also sometimes helps is to use the FBX Converter from the link below to convert the file to the newest fbx version.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index...amp;id=10775855

[jagwar]

Thanks for your quick responses guys. Gmask I tried baking the animation and I also tried to export without any animation in my scene at all. I also tried to export the animation alone w/o the model, still crashed. But that seems like a smooth way of doing it otherwise.

I will def. try the latest version of the fbx exporter. Although, I figured out that there was certain pieces in the model that cause the crash and after a billion constellation of different selection I finally figured out which pieces it was, which was really weird, because these pieces were pieces that had clean geometry.. other pieces, where the structure was going haywire, exported fine.

Thanks again for the advice.

Best,
Christian