Looking for the example files for this tutorial http://away3d.com/tutorials/3DS_Max_Workflow  No f.iles there, and I’ve downloaded the tutorial bundle from github and the src folder of that example only has the .html instructions file.  Anyone know if I can get a hold of this or point me in the right direction of any similar tutorials which will go through the importing of 3D models?  My animator is using Maya but the format looks the same as you would get from 3DMax.

I posted a similar question here:

http://away3d.com/forum/viewthread/5615/

and got a link to the awd 3DS exporter that I hadn’t found elsewhere:

https://github.com/awaytools/AwayExtensions-3dsmax/releases

I’ve not managed to verify that it is working however as the installer does not work on my work PC due to folder permissions, and my attempt to copy the files manually did not work.

Ideally I’d want the Maya exporter, as that’s what all of our animation sets are made in, and exporting those out to 3ds max nicely was another hurdle that I didn’t manage to satisfactorily solve.

The stumbling block I faced was compiling pyAWD, surely someone has managed to build it for win x64 ?

Been using this Maya AWD exporter for a couple of years.
Annoyingly its hidden in the forum somewhere so put the files on GIT.

https://github.com/JohnBrookes/MayaAWD

Just a note on animation. Its a bit of a pain as Maya can do all the fk/skeleton stuff. But the exporter only wants the mesh(skin) and bones. So make it simple and test.

Hey Mr Margaret Scratcher

I did not had a chance to test this on win8.

Did you got it installed at last ?

[edit:]
To be more clear: I mean the 3dsmax-exporter. It should be released on the awayTools.com side soon, as its in final stage of development.

I’m using Win 7, but no didn’t manage to get it installed, and I don’t have an 3DS max or maya on my personal machine to test..