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Maya for Fs addons?

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hello:
i have got Autodesk Maya and have made many models to suit Fs addon, but maya does not export to any usable format to use with the SDK converters. i want to convert some to mdl and some objects to Bgl,,all maya exports to is *.fbx and *.dxf not even 3ds. does any one know any plugin or the techniques of the conversions i have to go through to convert maya files to bgl and mdl, thank u very much.
 
Nothing that I know of. Is there a converter to the '.x' format? If you you may be able to use the utility in the SDK that creates mdls from '.x' files. I understand, though, that it expects stuff in the x file which is not usually generated by converters.
 
.dxf can be imported to GMAX. Not sure is that import is easier than making things completely from scratch, but try that.
 
As far as I know DXF is not really great in saving texture mappings, so I don't think you will save much time to doing that conversion.

I agree with Jon that the best guess would be to export to a X file somehow (and maybe add the FsX specific code manually later on).
 
hehehe, yes i have tried my luck with DXF, and saves no textures, and well maya also doesnt export to X format, so i guss i'm gonna have to install my old 3dsMax and do some modelling there. but the only reason i asked for maya was because i like its workflow and so used to it, but since i'm an old Maxer (not that i'm a 3d artist, hehe), i'll stik with that on makin addons.
thank u guys for the sugestions, i'll be bothering u'z later again :)
 
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