Hi there. I'm a student using the student version of Maya. What seems odd to me is that I'm not able to export anything but maya binary and maya ascii, so it leaves out working my Poser stuff in Maya. Is there a way around that, a plugin perhaps, to export and import to and from Maya and Poser? And help would be... well... helpful. Thanks, Brian

P.S. That's Maya 4.5 and Poser 4, just to clarify.

Maya 4.5 Unl. Academic version, or the actual Student version (I'm thinking the latter, but dunno for sure)? If it's Student, you may have to go scare up something like Blender (err, Google will cough it up), which IIRC has a lot of format-changing capabilities. Even buying Poser Pro Pack prolly won't help you much in this regard, and I suspect that the plugins out there may only export from Poser -> Maya... but you may want to ask Reiss-Studio and see what he's got cooked up (I know he's got a Poser -> Maya proggie, but I dunno if he's got something that will send it in the other direction.) /P

What student edition - the free watermarked PLE? That version won't import or export anything that any program except Maya PLE can read.

Blender! That's what I was looking for! As for what student edition, it's the fully featured, non-watermarked version of Maya Complete 4.5 you get from a site like journeyed.com. (I couldn't justify the price between Complete and Unlimited at the present time). If you don't know it, it's a very happy place to get student pricing on software. Though alas, it seems that it won't do much in the way of import/export either. I'll go grab Blender and have some fun. Thanks. =)

You may need to load the plug-in for object files. Check to see if the object file box is checked in the plug-in manager.

IronWhim, I'm thinking about getting the Academic version of Maya, too. Are there any other limitations? Did woodman's suggestion about the plug-in manager help? Can you export/import .obj files now? Sorry for so many questions. :)