RE: Re: .max model converter?

[Kris Rivel <kris(at)krisrivel.com>]

http://www.softimage.com/about_us/pdf/getting_into_character.pdf

>Can you post a link?  I didn't see it.
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>-Andy
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>Kris Rivel wrote:
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>>Not sure if I'm the only one who saw this but did anyone read the whitepaper 
>on Softimage's new website?  At the bottom of page 8 it mentions XSI v5.1 and 
>its ability to read and write assets from Max and Maya.  Whats this all 
>about?
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>>Kris
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>>>Hey Eric,
>>>
>>>How's it going?  We've been doing a whole bunch of these transfers in 
>>>the past two weeks, and the best luck we've had has been to use Deep 
>>>Exploration to convert the files to Maya Ascii (probably binary works 
>>>just as well), then using DotXSI4Maya to convert from Maya into XSI.  If 
>>>you do that and choose to import the normals with DotXSI, you can get 
>>>pretty good results (though the user normals are a pain to work with, 
>>>and you might want to just use them as reference to mark hard edges).  
>>>You should also get materials and textures this way.  Although if there 
>>>are multi-layered textures in Max, I think you'll only get one of the 
>>>layers.  If you have problems with geometry flying around to weird 
>>>places, it can usually be solved by flattening out the transforms in 
>>>Max.  I think you'll lose some polygon information if you go to .obj.  
>>>We didn't play with .3ds too much, but I've had mixed results with it in 
>>>the past and we're pretty much getting everything we need through right 
>>>now anyway.
>>>
>>>-Andy
>>>
>>>Jason Brynford-Jones wrote:
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>>>>Like a Stephen Hawking book - or a rhinoceros.  Oops off to discussion
>>>>there Chin.
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>>>>...just a bit deep and hard to get to....
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