exporting from Max 2011 to Blender

Gungriffon Geona

I have a fully rigged model that's ready to go, but the animators for the project already use Blender. The issue seems to be that, well, exporting bones and skinning from Max seems to be a huge mess, and I can't seem to find any current information on how to export from Max to Blender. is there any viable way to do this, or am I looking at a horrible nightmare I won't be able to wake up from?

xrg

I don't have any first-hand experience doing it, but the 0AD project did it using SMD, so it might be worth a shot. FBX support in Blender is getting focus but I don't know the current status of it.

Gungriffon Geona

At the moment seems like we're just getting someone else to handle the rigging in blender. all the workarounds are just too annoying to deal with right now. Thanks for the help though, I'll give it a try in my free time to see if I can get it to work.