praxis22 opened this issue on Oct 04, 2000 ยท 6 posts
praxis22 posted Wed, 04 October 2000 at 11:46 AM
Hi, Anyone know of a way of getting 3D Studio Max files into Poser4? cheers
JeffH posted Wed, 04 October 2000 at 12:53 PM
Attached Link: http://www.xdsoft.com/explorer/
3D explorer converts some .max files http://www.xdsoft.com/explorer/
visque posted Wed, 04 October 2000 at 1:46 PM
Export those .max files as .obj (requires Habware obj exporter) or export as .3ds. The first method seems to be the preferred method around here. Then import them into Poser. Visque
praxis22 posted Wed, 04 October 2000 at 2:26 PM
Well, this is where it gets interesting :) The beta version of explorer bombs every time I try to save out as an .obj file, it also killed my gfx driver so thoroughly that I had to boot into safe mode and download new drivers from the 'net, (but that's because it's a Microsloth O/S, you have to expect these problems :) I've got the earlier version, and it doesn't bomb, but it has a very comprehensive warning telling me it's not likely to do what I want either :) My other problem is that I don't own 3DS MAX, I just downloaded some meshes I'd like to convert, but as explorer tells me, MAX stores it's meshes as a reference to internal data structures, and doesn't actually contain much data at all :( Ah well, time to fire up poser and see if my earlier experimentation works.
smallspace posted Wed, 04 October 2000 at 2:52 PM
Max format is NOT an exchange format. It is absolutely proprietary to Studio Max and many times contains no geometry at all. It's SO proprietary that in many cases a Max file created by one person can't be opened by another person who is running Max because the 2nd person is not using the same plug-ins as the 1st! It seems a totally brainless idea to me to put Max files on the net for downloading since Studio Max can export to 3DS format which almost every program can load. Isn't the point of posting your models on the net to allow as many people as possible to have usable access to them?
I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!
Alias posted Wed, 04 October 2000 at 6:56 PM
I hope people don't start thinking it's totally brainless to post Poser files since people without Poser won't have usable access to them. Max files that are posted on the net often contain things that don't translate well to .3ds.Certain animated transformations often get screwed up, complex UV mapping can get screwed up or even lost, special effects have nothing to convert to and the file size is always much smaller.I've downloaded one 2mb MAX file that balloons to almost 20mb as .3ds, it would br even larger as an .obj Besides MAX user's are people too and sometimes we like to download each other's stuff to see what everyone's up too and maybe even learn something new.Kinda like what goes on here. Praxis22 If the models aren't too huge I can convert them to .obj for you.Please respond here, I'm having trouble getting my email (sending seems to be fine).Let me know what they are, I may have downloaded them already. Sorry for the attitude smallspace but the MAX community does have brains.