.max To Maya

[psyonic]

Good day everyone.
I have a .max scene that I need to open in maya. Anyone knows if that is even possible?
I know maya 7's bonus tools include a plugin to import .3ds scenes, but it refuses to open said .max file.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

[joojaa]

different format (theres about a few years between those formats by now its closer to 6 years) to open max go into max and export as fbx.

the program 3dstudio hasnt exsisted for years 3dstudio max is a bit of misnomer its like calliing Maya poweranimator ultra. But they have nothing else in common than that they are developed by teh same team.

[psyonic]

I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Unfortunatelly I don't have access to max, nor any way to open .max files directly, so if you could think of anything that might help with my predicament, i'd be very grateful.

[naughty]

eMail your max file to someone who has Max and ask them very nicely to export it as .obj or .fbx

besides downloading a dodgy cracked copy of Max and doing it yourself (which I'm obviously not endorsing) this is, realistically, pretty much your only option.

[kamal-bhardwaj]

what about options like POLYTRANS or Right Hemisphere's Deep exploration 3d.
Are these multi-format converters good enough and do they do a decent job of converting .max to .mb format and the files textures and mapping and mesh remains same when we open it in MAYA?
pls throw some light on this?
if its possible to convert .max file to open in MAYA 8.0

I am also having a similar problem.
Is there any tute or instructions on wht tabs to click while exporting from MAX and wht options to tick or to consider when exportin in MAYA?
Is there any tute out there which explains this connectivity between MAX and MAYA.
I wonder one thing tht now MAYA is also an autodesk product then why there is no direct Open > *.max
option yet given in MAYA 8.0????

regards,
Digi

[joojaa]

You will not succeded in exporting all there is to the file, and thats also why theres no direct reading of max files (r ma files in max). Because undrastanding a ma file would mean 2 things

Maya would need to know every structure of how max stack works

Max would need to recognize the fact taht its internal file is not only its interanl file

Now its not going to happen untill maya == max