Is there any way to import Poser files into Maya?

[bflat]

We're doing a quick, cheap animation for a project and thinking of buying some Poser animations. We want to work on it in Maya though, and all we could find so far are plugins for importing Poser files into Max or LightWave.

Anyone know of a way to do this in Maya? Plugin, Mel script, etc.?

[kmp3d]

yup... export the the poser file as a .obj and then you should be able to import it into maya no problem. careful though sometimes maya doesn't like posers geometry.

[gmask]

What format are the animation files for poser? You will only beable to import the geometry and then you will have to make you own skeleton and then import the motion capture file.

BTW take a look at www.turbosquid.com .. they most likely will have better models than what Poser creates and they will not cost much at all.

[goggle]

If you want just the models from Poser, that's easy, export as OBJ and import into Maya. But you've probably discovered that already and are talking about transferring the animation and weighting and everything.

While I am unaware of any direct Poser -> Maya pipeline I know there are a number out there for Max -> Maya and Lightwave -> Maya. I'm especially fond of .fbx file importers/exporters from the Kaydara FilmBox guys for getting things into Maya.

Not the most optimal solution but it'll might work.

-James

[campbell]

i pretty sure i noticed a plug released fairly recently ...cant help w details, sorry. maybe its beta?

[neofytos]

Wait, that will help you a lot.
http://www.reiss-studio.com/article/frontpage/1/