Max 2010 -> 2009?

Tumerboy

Anyone know a way to save a max 2009 compatible file out of max 2010?

I'm working on some random shit at home that I'd like to bring to work. Sadly there's a version issue. . .

The few formats I've tried exporting to & re-importing don't take the vertex colors

Mark Dygert

You probably tried it already but FBX maybe has a shot at working, not sure if it grabs vertex colors though...
What about Collada?

TheBat

I was thinking about OBJ, but i'm not sure if it supports Vertext colours. The suggestion of Vig is much more promising, try the fbx option. From my experience it supports quite a lot of options. You might also try to update the fbx format to the latest version (which supports both versions of max off course) since it has been updated quite a bit in over the years!

Ark

Like Vig said, Collada should work.

Tumerboy

I had tried FBX with no luck, hadn't tried collada, but have now (.DAE?) Still no luck. It's possible I'm just missing a checkbox on the setup screen, but I've scoured it for what I can.

Looks like I'll be repainting some verticies. . .

renderhjs

FBX is a piece of shit still, I had lots of headaches because of similar stuff. OBJ was the most basic format that worked at least, max, 3ds and FBX usually failed with some error or useless imports.

Personally I was once already thinking of transferring files via maxscript and some custom Mesh or Poly parser. Maybe some day that situation will return.

Sage

you can try.xsi and see if the .xsi plugin for max actually works. It should keep the vertex colors if it exports that is.

Eric Chadwick

Back From Five is worth a try (yes indeed, maxscript as an export format)

Tumerboy

.xsi isn't in my list of export filetypes. Is there a plugin somewhere? I looked on script spot, and dis a quick search on google, but I didn't spend much time or effort on it.

Tumerboy

just tried BFF and it's throwing an error whenever I hit export.

-- Runtime Error: FileStream Cannot create:
blah\objects\blah.ms

I'll keep messing with it later.

Sage

try this site.

http://www.maxplugins.de/max2009_32.php?search=.xs1&sort=Author You'll have to install it in both max 2010 and 2009.

at best it's a long shot.

Eric Chadwick

Ah well, BFF was worth a try. With FBX, did you make sure both versions of Max have the save exact version of the FBX exporter/importer? If they don't, you're in for a world of hurt.

Tumerboy

I don't have 2009 here, so I've just been exporting, and then reimporting to a fresh scene in 2010. I figure if it can't even get the vertex info back into the same version it has no hope of getting it anywhere else.

That's ok, it's not that many objects, I can export and get the models with UVs over, which is the most work. I can repaint vertex colors at work.

Thanks for trying guys.