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Title: Importing FS ships into Maya
Post by: Jonathan_S47 on June 27, 2004, 03:52:46 pm

Is there anyway of doing this? I am able to export the model from pof to a cob then I run into a problem. The version of Maya that I am using (Maya 5 PLE) does not recognize any of the formats. Does anyone know any plugins or converters I can use?

Title: Importing FS ships into Maya
Post by: Taristin on June 27, 2004, 04:02:34 pm

What formats does it accept? Get 3dExploration, or if you can find it, deep exploration. It'll convert into dozens of types.

Title: Importing FS ships into Maya
Post by: Jonathan_S47 on June 27, 2004, 04:20:57 pm

Not many.

MayaASCII
MayaBINARY
MayaPLE
Mel
EPS
Illistrator

Title: Importing FS ships into Maya
Post by: Taristin on June 27, 2004, 04:22:08 pm

Ouch.  Let me see what 3d ex allows you to export to...

Edit: Ok, none of those.  If you can, Pm F1gm3nt, and ask him how he got the Myrm into Maya for the work he did on it... :nod:

Title: Importing FS ships into Maya
Post by: Jonathan_S47 on June 27, 2004, 04:58:02 pm

I got a hold of Deep exploration but this program is going to kill its self after 30 days. It has the formats I am looking for but it won’t save as any of them. It errors saying Maya Installation not found.

EDIT: ok I think I have figured out what the error means. Deep Exploration is trying to use Maya its self to save in the format. Problem is that my version of Maya will only save in the MayaPLE format and nothing else at the moment.

Title: Importing FS ships into Maya
Post by: Jonathan_S47 on July 05, 2004, 03:00:22 pm

:sigh:

Title: Importing FS ships into Maya
Post by: Taristin on July 05, 2004, 05:18:30 pm

Are there plugins for Maya?

Title: Importing FS ships into Maya
Post by: Jonathan_S47 on July 05, 2004, 11:04:12 pm

Yes, On Alias’ web site there is a download section in which you have to register with them before you can download anything. However none of the plugins I have seen so far have anything to do with file formats except one. I have seen a plugin that would allow Maya Complete 5 to import .3DS I do not know if this will work with my version of Maya or not. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet.

Title: Importing FS ships into Maya
Post by: ShadowPuppet on July 06, 2004, 10:09:58 am

Are there any 3rd party plugins that support the Unreal Tournament 2003 / 2004 format?

Maya PLE is given away free with UT2004 ( 2003 as well ? ) for use in addon creating. Maybe there is a 3rd party plugin for something else or a fiel converted that can handle the format.

If you can get the format into something Truespace 3.2 can import, then you will be on your way!

Title: Importing FS ships into Maya
Post by: Jonathan_S47 on July 06, 2004, 10:53:10 pm

I tried the .3DS import but Maya didn’t recognize it. So I either installed it wrong or it just won’t work with PLE. I am wondering though. Would it be possible for us to write plugins for Maya to teach it .POF?

ShadowPuppet: I think UT2004 comes with the plugins for that. Try looking for through the disks. I am not sure on this though I don’t have UT2004 yet. Also I am trying to Import Freespace 2 models into Maya not the other way around yet.