Re: xsi to maya

[Adam Sale <adamsale(at)shaw.ca>]

5 Trillion.... thats not a typo?

Yikes.. I thought some of the meshes I'd been working on lately were dense.

 

I've had envelopes go over without problem.. but the one thing that always seems to be the case, is parenting is lost between joints and bones.. The envelope info however goes over intact..

Fk though.. not IK.. and even if you add IK in Maya, the integrity of the chain is destroyed.

 

Your .xsi file is going to be enormous however and will likely crash on import. I've moved a couple million polys over, with a small wait time for transfer.. I ended up exporting as Binary instead of Ascii if thats any help

 

Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: Alastair <hearsum@glassworks.co.uk>
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 7:44 am
Subject: xsi to maya
To: XSI <XSI@Softimage.COM>

> Hello
>
> This has probably been covered before but I wasn't paying
> attention. Has
> anyone successfully  used crosswalk to get an enveloped
> character from
> xsi to maya?
>
> I haven't so any advice would be gratefully received. I have a 5
> trillion polygon character made up of millions of separate bits
> so using
> any sort of shape baking procedure is  probably out of the
> question.  As
> usual I  am testing out the principal simply on a sphere
> and a  3 bone
> chain. I have tried all 5 export optopns in the export to maya
> option
> under crosswalk My incompetence is taking me by surprise. Can
> anyone help?
>
>
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