Importing Maya 2008 into Lightwave 7

[alanestrada]

is it possible to import in Lightwave 7 a Maya 2008 file?
I can't find any real exporting options in Maya, the only 2 filetypes I can save into are ascii y binary.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance

[lwanmtr]

For objects you can export as .obj..you may have enable the object plugin in maya

[alanestrada]

I'm sorry but how do I do that? I do not know if I already have that plug in or not, and if so, how can I enable it.

Thanks again, and sorry but I'm new with MAYA

[lwanmtr]

windows->Plugin manager (or something like that)..maya defaults with the obj export not loaded..just select auto-load and it will load whenever you start maya...then you'll have obj export available in the save requestor

[alanestrada]

Thanks a lot, it worked!.

[lwanmtr]

enjoy :)

[Chrizto]

And you have the free FBX converter from Autodesk, that lets you convert your Maya files to a decent format for LW.

[lwanmtr]

He's using LW7, and would need the right FBX importer to import those.

[alanestrada]

Thanks for your help, I actually was able to export from MAYA in OBJ and then I had no problem importing that into LW.

Thanks!