Does anyone know where I can get an .X file exporter for maya?
ehat version of maya? anyway microsoft distributes the x exporter as part ocf their downloadable directx toolkits.
Ok this was a dumb question. For some reason the entire board wasn't showing up this morning. When I asked this. I have since found the microsoft exporter and am installing it. 
Is there a *.X exporter compatible with Maya 7? Because I'm not sure that the exporters for 6.5 or lower are compatible with Maya 7?
There are a few exporters out there that are okay but I have found that Milkshape is the best for import/export of most formats.
i tried milkshape but as i try to import a very simple .ma file (a textures polygonal ball), milkshape crashes. Any idea why it does that or whether there are other exporters our there? I also tried the directx sdk plugin from microsoft but it doesn't even load in Maya 7, funny it is called "D3DMaya7ExportX.mll"... the reported error is a shocking "Error: The operation completed successfully." ummm....
i got it figured out... i had to reinstall the complete direct X SDK 10, now everything is fine. The only problem is that the plugin for Maya causes Maya to be extremely unstable and slows down everything. If i open a scene and i activate the X plugin it doesn't load, if i deactivate the plugin maya crashes unceremoniously.
I hope either microsoft or Alias/Autodesk/Wavefront are going to do something about it in the future...
is this where i culd find the .x exporter???
HERE