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Subject: Exporting landscape geometry into Maya...

kelley opened this issue on Feb 27, 2004 ยท 6 posts
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kelley ( ) posted Fri, 27 February 2004 at 2:26 PM ยท edited Mon, 05 August 2024 at 2:57 AM

I've used Vue for a while now, and am starting on Maya. Today I saw a question posted on the Maya Forum about making a cratered landscape in Maya. Which begged the question: Since Vue does it so well, can the Vue geometry be exported over to Maya? If so, will the texturing follow with it?

gebe ( ) posted Fri, 27 February 2004 at 2:45 PM

We need a Maya user to aswer this. Sorry, but no Maya, so I'm unable to give you a correct answer.

Northchild ( ) posted Sat, 28 February 2004 at 2:15 AM

The Pro version of Vue 4 has Maya export cabability. I'm fairly certain that you're not able to export with earlier versions. Textures are exported as well as geometry.

DMM ( ) posted Sat, 28 February 2004 at 4:46 PM

Its always been possible to save out meshes in Vue, but they've always been limited in size/complexity, and thus lose any real value. Vue Pro does it better, but not well IMO. Better to do Vue landscapes in Vue, other stuff in Maya (or in my case Lightwave) & composite.

kelley ( ) posted Sun, 29 February 2004 at 3:06 AM

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'Took a shot at it. This pic in Maya was built in Vue 4.0...strangely, I had problems in Vue getting the craters to look sharp. In Maya, they seem overdone. Maybe less with the 'sharpen' tool in the Object Editor? But it was easy to export as a Wavefront.obj.

DMM ( ) posted Sun, 29 February 2004 at 2:26 PM

I always get the feeling that there's extra "magic processing" that Vue does to the terrain meshes, they look great in Vue but bad in Lightwave/any other app. Perhaps one day this will be available in other apps via a plugin.

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