Maya exporter?

[wes-person]

Does anyone know where I can find a Maya exporter for 3dStudio Max?

A free exporter where it can export Maya files to .3ds extension?

Thanks in advance

[the13thfloor]

Hm, as far as i know, they are available with the free Autodesk bonus tools, that you can download from Autodesk´s Website.

But then again: You could use the FBX format instead.

[joojaa]

Autodesk bonus tools

bonus tools has a 3ds reader not exporter.

3ds is not he format of 3dsMax (its the format for 3ds in the dos era and tahts a differet application) its aobsolete format thast widely sed for some reason.

[the13thfloor]

Thanks for correcting me, Joojaa.

Lol, i kinda assumed, that the plug from the bonustools would support an export as well, my fault. I honestly never tried it the other way around...

And i get what you mean by "obsolete", thats definitely true...

But i wonder, whats your view on this? I think, for a Maya - to - MAX workflow, FBX would be the tool of choice...

Am i right there?

[joojaa]

Maya - to - MAX workflow

Theres no such thing as anything to MAX workflow. Max is a production island, if theres anything you can export to max then ist allmost assuredly too trivial to think about. BUt yes FBX is fine for that.

Thing is however if it really was possible for going form one application to another then you would only have one application! Because everybody would migrate to one.

[the13thfloor]

Hm, yeah, very true.... MAX is kind of an island when it comes to these kinda things.

But MEH, i probably chsoe the wrong words when i said "Maya to MAX workflow".

Glad you still got what i meant to say.

[wes-person]

yeah I agree it is an island... Well right now I think we will stick with Maya, until I find another solution