I've just had great luck doing fbx exports from maya 7 and importing into 5.0
with the 4.2 plugin. Only one model freaked, and i suspect it has something to
do with the rigging from maya...
Have you tried importing them one at a time, saving as xsi, and then merging the
xsi files?
Peter
Quoting Wayne Williams <wayne(at)realtimegaming.com>:
> Has anyone had any issues importing .fbx models that were created in
> v4.2 into v5? I'm wanting to get a bunch of video game models I created
> in .fbx format all into one scene. I am using the v4.2 .fbx plugin for
> v5 since I couldn't find a v5 plugin anywheres on Alias' site. I dropped
> the .xsiaddon to the interface and the .fbx import/export options showed
> up in the file menu so I was hoping that the plugin would work.
> Unfortunately, my .fbx models will come in right the first or second
> import...but after that they come in with parts hidden or just not there
> at all, as well as having pieces of the model jumbled throughout the
> scene. Has anyone else experienced this problem? I have quite a few
> models so manually importing them one at a time, converting to .emdl,
> exporting..only to have to reimport them all back in seems like a lot of
> work. Thanks!
> -wayne-
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