Maya 8.5 exporter?

#21 Our artist cant seem to get it to work. His 7.0 works but not this one from the site. It just crashes when you export.

#22 Hey Kip -
I have tested (at a high level) the 8.5 x32 and x64 versions.
What issues is your artist having?

Kind Regards,
Sean

#23 Hi guys, my artist is using 8.5 x32, but it crashes when he loads Maya 8.5 with the plugin installed. This is on Windows (XP I think, I'll check though).

Any ideas? :(

#24 Mark,

Are you sure that your artist has the correct version of the plugin and OS?

I have exported on both x32/x64 with success.

Kind Regards,
Sean

#25 Anyone got the Maya 8.5 32bit plugin? Looks like Seans website is kinda messed up...

#26 @ Benjamin Schneider

Hello,
I tried the maya2dts exporter from you and whenever i go to export it Maya completely crashes and seems to complain about a missing .cfg file.

Please help.

#27 @ Jack:

Hi. The missing .cfg file being reported is standard for the Maya2DTS utility. If you're exporting a simple mesh, you don't need to worry too much about the config file but if you're doing something complex, you'll definitely want a config file. You can either name it fileName.cfg (where fileName is whatever your Maya scene name is - minus the file extension) or you can name it DTSScene.cfg. Check out the Maya2DTS references for how to structure your config file if you don't already know how.

Still, none of that has much, if anything, to do with Maya crashing. In order to help you there, I'm going to need to ask you a few questions...

Is the plugin being loaded properly? There are two parts. The mel script and the plugin (which is really just a dynamic library). I don't recall if the dump file is generated from the mel script or the plugin, so you should probably check to make sure the plugin is being loaded. If you open your Plugin Manager, make sure that "Maya2DTSExporter.bundle" shows up in the list under "/Users/Shared/Autodesk/maya/8.5/plug-ins" and that (at minimum) "Loaded" is checked. I also check the "Auto load" checkbox so it'll be enabled each time Maya is launched.

If the plugin is loading properly, does the crash occur for every scene? If you just make a simple cube, triangulate it, setup the node names and export it, does that crash Maya as well?

If all scenes crash Maya and you're certain your scene structure is setup properly, perhaps there's a permissions problem? Go into the /Users/Shared/Autodesk/maya/8.5/plug-ins folder and get info on the Maya2DTSExporter.bundle. Make sure you're the owner with read/write privs and everyone else can just read.

If none of this helps, can you give me a bit more info on your setup? I built this as a universal binary but I'm running an Intel Mac so I may have not tested it on a PPC Mac (can't remember - it's been a while). If you're on a PPC Mac, maybe I didn't build the UB correctly.

Let me know if any of this is helpful and we'll go from there.

Take care,

Ben

#28 Does anyone have a link to where I can get the 8.5 exporter for windows?

Thanks.

#29 Its on both TDN and my website.

#30 Thanks Sean. I have problems exporting, and posted the problem in a thread on your website. If you have time, please look into it.

#31 Its the same problem as Jack.

#32 PF - we resolved your friends issue - exporting DTS with Maya2DTS is a combination of Maya2DTS and DtsUtility. You have to have a file properly setup in order to export to a DTS.

#33 Sean, can you go step by step in details. I also having problems. I gone through benjamins steps but I still get maya 8.5 crashing when exporting a simple box.

#34 @Adolfo:

Are you on Windows or Mac? If you're on Windows, my suggestions are probably useless and Sean will most likely chime in. If you're on a Mac, I'll try to help.

Take care,

Ben

#35 I am a Windows(xp) user. So far I have found some .cfg files under this site http://dannyn1.web.aplus.net/torque/maya2dts/ , I do not know were to put the .cfg files under with folder. In the dump file it say it could not find .cfg so I found four under the site I mention.

#36 @ Benjamin

I am using MacPro and I am interested in the Maya2DTS exporter. I am using Maya 8.5. I cannot locate it niether at GG nor TDN.

The website listed above and here for ref. no longer exists.
http://research.gridlab.ohio.edu/downloads/Maya2DTS_Installer.dmg

Any suggestions? Curious - Is the Maya2DTS source code folder on the TGE engine the same source as the exporter?

Carpenter Software

#37 Sorry about that. Link is now fixed.

#38 Adolfo -

are you just trying to export a simple sphere?
or a complex character?

I have access to captivate and can provide a visual tutorial - if that would help.

I can show you how to do a character with animation or just a sphere for now.

Kind Regards,
Sean

#39 Yes, Sean. That will work. Thank you very much.

At first, I was trying to export a pyramid model with rooms, halls, and ramps. That only way was for me to export it as an .obj into Max 8 and then exported into a .dts into TGE.(TGE users recommend for level to be a .dif files.)

Now, I am trying to export a simple primitive as a box or speare with a (.jpg, .png) textures into a .dts.
So far I am having difficulties exporting it and with the texture I created in photoshop.

My goal is to export a animated character, weapons, photoshop textures to be exported into TGE.

thanks,
Adolfo Ramos

#40 @ Benjamin

Thanks - I just downloaded the Maya2DTS_Installer.dmg file. My interest is Character animation for TGE.

Is there a Character animation tutorial?

Thanks again
Carpenter Software