Roboto And Tiny Rig - .mb And .ma File Types?

[unionj9]

hiya all,

im having trouble opening the Roboto and Tiny rigs posted in the maya charcter rid section... can anyone help please? I realise they're .mb and .ma files, but why wont they open in my maya 8.0? Why cant they just open like a .obj files?? Ive come across the mayafileconverter but is this really necessary as ive got no clue how to work it?

If anyone has these files and can open them - would they be knid enough to save them as .obj files and send them to me please???

email - isted-art@easy.com

Any advice would be greatly apriciated friends!

Regards,

Mike.

[molemansd7]

If the issue is that they're from a more recent version (ie maya 8.5), then you should be able to open the .ma file in a text editor. Look in the first couple lines for anything that mentions maya 8.5...mainly just the 8.5 part. Change that to 8.0 or 8...I don't know if it makes a difference...and you should be good.

If its maya 2008+, I don't know what to do, as I've never seen an ascii of those.

[unionj9]

Hiya thanks for the reply, unfortionatly they are maya 2008! So does any one have anymore suggestions on how to open maya 2008 files in maya 8?

[mookusmaximus05]

They need to save the files as .ma. If they were .ma you can just change 2008 to any lower version of maya. If anyone has 2008 can you save it as a .ma and upload?