Is there any way to export a Biped skeleton from Max7 to Animation Master?

[Noz]

like the title says, is this possible? I wont be able to use max for much longer on a daily basis, and its simply too expensive to buy a personal copy. Saw Animation Master and thought that it looked pretty good. Especially given the VERY reasonable price tag...

 

Ill keep it short and end it here, and have a good one all.

[robcat2075]

I know nothing of Max but I suspect it there isn't an easy or practical way.

 

But why a skeleton? I doubt that a rig in Max has anything on the better skeletons that already exist for A:M.

 

The booklet that comes with A:M has a tut on installing a rig.

[another]

possible as mesh, no bones, no animation. Bad idea..

[Fuchur]

I dont think that that is possible...

A:M hast some freeware (and payware)-plugins which can import *.3ds, *.obj, *.x and some more, but I dont think that you will be happy with the results.

*.x or *.obj are the most developed plugins I think, but after all, it is never a good idea to try to import polygonal data to Patch-data-based-programms if you want to animate the model in a complex way.

 

In the end you dont have to... if you are after animation characters, A:M is the better way anyway.

I think biped skeltons are quite equal to a A:M skeleton with SmartSkins and may be CP-Weights...

 

You should try to animate and model in A:M and you wont be disappointed with the results. A:M is much more easy to handle and much more powerful in terms of characteranimation than the plain 3ds is and it is equal or evern better than 3ds with character studio...

 

*Fuchur*

[DrRIEGER]

No problem to import bones into AnimationMaster (v12) for a while now :

use the LWO import plugin made by Masashi Watabnabe, plugin you can find :

here

 

You obviously must get a lwo exporter for MAX or a 3D file converter app.

 

Hope this help.

 

Best regards,

 

Alain