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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: BS403 on February 19, 2007, 10:20:30 pm

Title: Conversion Help .mp to .cob
Post by: BS403 on February 19, 2007, 10:20:30 pm

Does anyone know a program to convert maya .mp files to .cob s?

Title: Re: Conversion Help .mp to .cob
Post by: FlareBaffled on February 20, 2007, 12:40:59 pm

Deep Exploration can open .ma and .mb Maya ascii and binary files respectively. Not mp though.

Ultimately, though, you are still going to get issues trying to work this way. Believe me...I did! Until I got the Max plugin working, I was trying to convert a model to cob format and then convert to pof using PCS. It was virtually impossible to preserve the correct hierarchy for any of the detailed stuff, and I kept crashing PCS with assorted geometry that it couldn't handle. It is designed to work with cob files made by Truespace, and geared specifically to the way that works. You might be better off downloading the free TS3.2 and just finding a file format Maya can export and Truespace import. Then you can set the thing up in Truespace and use PCS to convert.

Title: Re: Conversion Help .mp to .cob
Post by: Getter Robo G on February 20, 2007, 04:51:22 pm

*Cough*  DE isn't Free...

This is probably the last Free version of 3DX (the previous incarnation of DE)

McAfee says it's clean but I'd give thsi a once over just to be safe (foudn it on an old HW2 site).

It have two additional plugins aside from the usual ones, Maya4 and 3DS-MAX (previously it only opened .3ds now it can do .max I have not tested these two new formats YET)

http://upload2.net/page/download/m7laA1YsboSuzJW/3D_exploration_v1.831.rar.html

Enjoy!

Title: Re: Conversion Help .mp to .cob
Post by: BS403 on February 20, 2007, 10:48:42 pm

Thanks alot Getter :D i'll give that a try.

@flarebaffled: I've got truespace 3.2 but maya personal learning edition only saves as .mp :(

Title: Re: Conversion Help .mp to .cob
Post by: FlareBaffled on February 21, 2007, 11:31:12 am

Pretty sure 3d Explorer doesn't do mp files. The way they have designed the PLE release seems specifically aimed at keeping models in Maya. there is a plugin for UT2004 game models....so there might be a way to use that to get a file format that something else can read!

Title: Re: Conversion Help .mp to .cob
Post by: Getter Robo G on February 22, 2007, 07:32:34 am

AFAIK you need to own UT2004 to access the editor, the editor can EXPORT UTfiles as .3ds (I have serched high and low of another UT2 other format converter with no success...

So if maya ple can make ut files I suggest getting ut2004 (but I personally have never seen or used the process myself) still waiting on feedback about success or problems with it?

Title: Re: Conversion Help .mp to .cob
Post by: BS403 on February 22, 2007, 10:18:18 am

I have UT2004. i'm at school right now, but once i get home i'll search for the plugin.