Max 9 to Max 8

Jesse Moody

Ok so I made my entire scene, textures, models the works and now it needs to go to max 8. I was using 9. Any tips?

I have tried a few ways but something always seems to get a little messed up.

Any suggestions are wonderful. Thanks guys.

Needles

export to 3ds >_>?

gamedev

FBX.

Jesse Moody

yeah tyler i am using fbx cause that seems the easiest way. i am doing it piece by piece and reassembling everything. Problem is i was having to rebuild my shaders and re do my lights. Not really a problem cause i have max 8 and 9 open at the same time to see where i have to put things just a little annoying.

thanks guys for the input.

Mark Dygert

Don't forget you can save your materials and shaders, hopefully max8 will be able to open them. That might save you some time from having to rebuild them?

Eric Chadwick

BFF might still work, it'll be better than FBX if it does.
http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/darkmoon/bff/

Jesse Moody

Ok so this is how I ended up doing it. FBX wasn't working and just kept crashing so I went with OBJ and exported as tris since when i did it as quads my uvs got jacked up. Made sure that I exported the material library and opened up the objs in max 8. Imported the material library. Redid my lighting and I was done.

Worked pretty good and I didn't run into too many issues besides having to redo the lighting.

Eric Chadwick

You didn't try BFF? Worked a treat when I had to go from 7 to 5 a couple years ago. Kept all my lights, cameras, editable poly, etc.

Jesse Moody

No I didn't give it a try. I'll give it a try this week though cause if it works as good as you say then I might as well switch over.

Eric Chadwick

Well, it might just die in the latest version of Max. It basically converts the scene into a Maxscript file, but I don't think the tool has been updated in awhile, so the maxscript might be incompatible. Worth a try though.